The Atlantic's excellent Conor Friedersdorf wrote about Gomeshi's essay and The New York Review of Books scandal.

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The mere possibility that the editor of a prestigious intellectual journal resigned under pressure from advertisers would normally provoke widespread attention and concern from mainstream publications––especially upon confirmation that a major advertiser issued a complaint––given the implications for journalistic independence.


Note that in the case of NYRB, advertisers are university publishers.

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What would happen if the standards invoked by Buruma’s critics were applied universally? I suspect that some of those critics would come to regret their positions.


An excellent question that goes to the core of why "censorship for the right reasons" is just "censorship".

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