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Angry NPCs at NYT attack their own for dissent


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2020 Jul 14, 10:41am   1,020 views  9 comments

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Another writer is pushed out of new york times for wrongthink.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/new-york-times-bari-weiss-resigns-bullying-1202985236/

Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer in The New York Times’ opinion section, resigned on Tuesday, decrying what she said was “constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views” and an environment where she said “self-censorship has become the norm.”

“What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity,” she wrote in a lengthy resignation letter, which she posted to her personal website. “If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.”

Her resignation follows that of James Bennet, the editor of the Opinion section, who stepped down last month after a number of Times staffers verbally protested the decision to publish an op ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AZ), in which he defended the notion of sending troops to cities to quell protests following the death of George Floyd.

She added, “Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”

Kathleen Kingsbury, the acting editorial page editor of the Times, said in a statement, “We appreciate the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion. I’m personally committed to ensuring that The Times continues to publish voices, experiences and viewpoints from across the political spectrum in the Opinion report. We see every day how impactful and important that approach is, especially through the outsized influence The Times’s opinion journalism has on the national conversation.”

Weiss wrote that after the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s surprise victory, she was hired “with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home.”

“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,” she wrote.

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2   HeadSet   2020 Jul 14, 10:47am  

Sounds like a purge......
3   Hircus   2020 Jul 14, 10:57am  

I think this part is rich

Weiss wrote that after the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s surprise victory, she was hired “with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home.”


She was hired because the Times knew they had a group-think problem because Trumps "surprise victory" meant that they were out of touch with reality. But, the intolerant angry NPCs just cant stand someone with moderate views like Bari, and just want her gone at all costs.

They LOVE their echo chamber.
4   georgeliberte   2020 Jul 14, 10:58am  

Why not make a hostile environment sexual harassment claim with a few creative details to spice things up. It might go nowhere, but, it will still give them headaches and reputation damaaage. Might get a settlement. They are the people who created such nightmares, make them live with it.
5   Karloff   2020 Jul 14, 2:37pm  

You're assuming these people would even learn from such an incident. I'm willing to bet few would. Solzhenitsyn spoke of prisoners in the gulags that still sang the praises of the communist government, despite being victims of it's barbaric cruelty.
6   clambo   2020 Jul 14, 3:31pm  

People forget that the Times is influenced by Carlos Slim, the vastly rich Mexican.

He bailed out the Times with $250 million.

Now he's a shareholder after they paid him back.

The Times has been a rag for years.
8   HeadSet   2020 Jul 14, 6:18pm  

georgeliberte says
https://reason.com/2018/01/29/the-new-york-times-is-now-a-nazi-paper/


This is just a rehash of the Jesse Jackson style extortion racket. It does not matter how ridiculous the charge, just that unless there is a payoff, a boycott will ensue.

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