https://www.mediaite.com/print/i-was-so-fcking-freaked-out-ex-nyt-staffer-describes-crying-and-bloodthirsty-colleagues-seeking-vengeance-for-cotton-op-ed/

«Last October, Bennet told Semafor‘s Ben Smith he was treated like an “incompetent fascist” for publishing Cotton’s perspective.»

So… blogs were a thing back then, right? Like… Cotton could have found a web site (say, https://www.cotton.senate.gov/) on which to publish his thing back then, right? Without relying on The New York Times to publish his thing, right?