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Study Hall / Jessica Wakeman / Jul 22
“As the editor of Style at this moment in history, Sicha said he is cognizant ‘that every one of us has some varying level of crisis in their life, whether it’s new or old or newly terrible.’ That largely means avoiding pieces that could be regarded as tone deaf or full-on hate-reads. (Under earlier iterations of Style, the infamous April article about honeymooners trapped in the Maldives might have leaned even more into hate-read territory.) ‘We’re being a little bit more respectful than we normally would be because we know that people who are reading the New York Times have families who are sick, or are doing childcare while working, or are dealing with Zoom funerals — which is a terrible, terrible phrase,’ Sicha said. ‘So, I do like pissing people off and we’ve definitely done a little bit in the last couple of months. But it’s just a time to be a little more empathetic to people.'”
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