On June 3 the New York Times published Tom Cotton's 'Send in the Troops' op-ed In the fallout, op-ed staff editor Bari Weiss, page editor James Bennet resigned Later, in December editorial assistant Adam Rubenstein also left the paper Times has now been criticized for a job advert for a Deputy Opinion Editor The description says the ideal candidate for the job would have a 'sense of humor and a spine of steel, a confident point of view and an open mind' People took to twitter to point out the irony of this after the series of resignations