In her resignation letter, New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss revealed an “illiberal environment” at the newspaper where anyone who doesn’t toe the far-left line is bullied and where social media acts as the ultimate editor.

In her letter, Weiss noted that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election – lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society – have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist and former New York Times bureau chief, said that the scathing resignation letter from Weiss is “devastating” to the former newspaper of record.

“The picture she paints of what is going on there is, I have to say, worse than I suspected,” Goodwin told Fox & Friends.

“What she describes is bullying, harassment, and anti-Semitism. Attacking her all the time to her face, behind her back on these discussion chat rooms. It’s quite striking,” Goodwin said. “She also describes how the publisher did nothing about it. The top editors did nothing about it but they privately encouraged her and praised her for her bravery and she said, ‘Why does it take bravery to come to work in a newsroom?’”

In her letter, Weiss noted that “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times,” but social media acts as the ultimate editor.

A statement by the Endowment for Middle East Truth said: “In addition to illustrating the hostile environment in which Weiss worked at the New York Times, she goes on to describe the rigid orthodoxy of the socalled enlightened classes of the politically correct. Weiss eloquently captures the degradation of morality within the New York Times saying that “stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.”

Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz noted: “This is obviously the next chapter after the liberal newsroom revolt that led to the ouster of James Bennet, the paper’s editorial page editor, for publishing an online piece by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the military to quell riots as a last resort. The piece was quickly disavowed after the internal protests. Weiss had been critical of that episode as well.”

Dominic Green, Life &Arts editor of The Spectator, noted that a New York Times insider had told him “Bari Weiss’s letter was tame. She could have named names. She could have said, ‘There are dozens of other instances of bullying and harassment.’ Because there are.’”

“It won’t stop with Weiss,” Green added. “Colleagues on the opinion pages and in the newsroom have, I’m told, ‘ratcheted up their disdain for moderates and conservatives’.”

“Who’s next?”