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| Hey, I don't know if you know about this. | |
| Everybody missed this little story today. | |
| Do you know that the New York Times fired one of the theater critics? | |
| They found out he had a cozy relationship with a major Broadway producer, and they said, this could cause some possible bias. | |
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| It was in the paper today. | |
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| This was the one attempt of the Times to root out bias at their paper. | |
| The theater critic got fired. | |
| You know that the whole the whole paper, the the you know, the guild, everybody must have just stopped and sucked up their breath as they read it. | |
| The headlines. | |
| New York Times worries about conflict of interest and editorial staff. | |
| Well, apparently they were able to tap into his email, the company email, and they saw he not only was friendly with this Scott Rudin, he was emailing back and forth. | |
| They were coordinating a little. | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
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