Bannon, Buruma and free expression: Media outlets should not be bending to the latest Twitter storm
Latest postings concerning free expression of opinion no matter what that opinion is.
Marcus Gee
The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books are two of the most respected titles in journalism. So when both of them fold under pressure over matters of free expression in the course of a month you know that we are in trouble.
The New Yorker was first to buckle. The magazine announced it was inviting former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon to the annual New Yorker Festival. He was to sit down for a conversation with editor David Remnick about “the ideology of Trumpism.” …