Author Ian Buruma was fired as editor-in-chief for the New York Review of Books last fall. Metoorörelsen swept over the world when Buruma sounded pressing a controversial article by a media profile that have been accused of committing sexual violence against women. It brought ramaskrin, even within parts of his own editorial staff. Buruma quickly disappeared out the back door. Now he tells his story under the heading ”Editing in an age of outrage” in the Financial Times.
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he was making mistakes. The text should be examined and edited harder. And when the digital train went he also did a miserable interview that could easily be misinterpreted. But he does not regret the decision to let the man be heard. When the moral majorities – or temporary opinion – is allowed to control what is in the newspaper is freedom of expression frizzy to.
For there he is arguing with all the sharpness and brilliance that made him one of today’s great intellectuals.
