Now that a prominent yet controversial New York Times reporter has also found to have used a racial slur, Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet walked back an earlier statement used to justify the newspaper’s severed ties with a white reporter.
When veteran reporter Donald McNeil resigned last week, he acknowledged that he had repeated a racial slur while on an educational trip in Peru with high school students. He said one of the students asked him if a classmate should have been suspended for a video she made when she was 12 years old, in which she used a racial slur. McNeil said he asked the student if she had called someone else the slur or was rapping or quoting a book. In doing so, he used the slur himself.
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