Accountability
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New York Times ordered to pay $9.25 million in defamation suit from former Alabama basketball player
Kai Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide when New York Times sports writer Billy Witz falsely identified Spears as being a passenger in the car at the site of a January 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
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Seattle Times columnist quits after paper spikes column arguing Cunningham's stance not transphobic
His column argued that the position supporting the separation of biological females and males in sports doesn't automatically make one transphobic, and he urged people to stop throwing that label around. According to Calkins, his column was passed through a series of editors who informed him they weren't going to run it.
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Congressional probe targets consulting reports that helped make DEI quotas a boardroom standard
Four unreplicated consulting reports became the evidentiary basis for hiring quotas — and the data behind them has never been released for scrutiny.
