how to get into the NY Times (or not)

Boris Johnson was asked to write an Op-Ed for the New York Times. He was thrilled. Then he got a call from one of their editors. “Everybody loves it. But we have, uh, a few issues of political correctness that I have to go through with you (…)
Some of the changes were unobjectionable. For American readers, Tony Blair leads the Labor party. The NY Times is too grand to call Rumsfeld

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  1. Big John Says:
    March 24th, 2003 at 9:39 am

    This is why the unofficial motto of the New York Times is:
    “All the news that’s printed to fit”

    Sadly, even conservative papers like the Washington Times have these layers of censors and ‘editors’.

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