Just read the letter as well and it really resonated with me. I always dreamed of being an investigative journalist (why I never become one is a whole other story...) and I really believed that the moral obligation of any publication (and any individual journo) was to cite facts - not their own opinions. Like, that was the Rule Number 1. Find the truth and expose wrongdoings, no matter who did them and where, so on... Ah, those idealistic dreams one tended to have once.

What we have now in every country, it seems, are people who have the power to report, yet they don't have the courage to report honestly. Each side just spouts their own agenda while truth & facts are a merry fucking mess for these "gatekeepers." Bah! They are no gatekeepers, they aren't guardians anymore. Not sure they ever really were but nowadays they certainly aren't. They're wannabe politicians who didn't have the balls or money to become actual politicians, so they spout their extremely political opinions disguised as "news and reporting."

They also seem to be quite selfish people who think they know best, and therefore must only let their audience hear about their correct opinion. Dissonance will be silenced and ridiculed. Wow, does this sound familiar...?

Here's another quote from her resignation letter: "-- But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."

Bye bye to exchanging ideas, free thinking, debate. The correct opinion already exists, and you best obey.