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James Bennet and the rewriting of 2020

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James Bennet and the rewriting of 2020

Jonathan M. Katz
Oct 28, 2022
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James Bennet and the rewriting of 2020

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Sometimes, history changes unexpectedly toward the good. And then, powerful people with something to lose try to change it back.

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple contributed to the latter yesterday when he published a column titled “James Bennet was right.” The piece was an apologia for Bennet’s actions in the summer of 2020, when, as editor of t…

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