Resignation Letter
&gt; Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.<p>In other words, the New York Times isn&#x27;t leading.  It&#x27;s following the crowd on Twitter.  And in abdicating the role of finding out the truth and saying it, the NYT gave up relevance.  (We don&#x27;t need them to echo Twitter.  Twitter does that just fine.  And we don&#x27;t need them for performance theater,  either - we&#x27;ve got Broadway.)<p>&gt; There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one...<p>&quot;You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means.&quot; - Inigo Montoya<p>Can&#x27;t anyone there see past the current insanity and <i>think</i>?  &quot;To be inclusive, we have to get rid of her&quot;?  Don&#x27;t they even hear the words coming out of their own mouths?