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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Dude, my question was, what would you do if you were the editor? Do you read at a first-grade level?
If you're running a newspaper, you have to make choices. If you go out and ask Cotton to write up his crazy views, you can't run something else. If you only have a small section in the paper and you have to choose -- like, if you're the editor -- then why would you run Cotton's piece instead of something else? Stop rejecting the idea that you have to make choices -- that's what editors do.
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This is some clever reframing. Now the argument shifts to, “Something more worthy should have been offered instead of Cotton’s clickbait.”
Cotton is a Senator. If he wants to troll, the public should consider his trolling — see it, consider it, and consider the fact that a Senator thinks as he does, and then decide whether to accept or reject it.
The author of the criticism I think pretends to lament the Grey Lady’s debasement, but is actually concerned that Cotton’s view, while rejected by most people, will gain exposure and be accepted by some. Again, he’s trying to preclude free speech — to be the decider of what falls into the sphere of deviancy.
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