PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on July 14, 2020, 12:05:27 PM
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https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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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.
Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. 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. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.
My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” 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.
All this bodes ill, especially for independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.
Utterly despicable. It happened at the Philadelphia Inquirer recently, except it was the Leftist Editor who was forced to resign. You just can't be Left anymore, you must be Far Left Radical Marxist.
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Utterly despicable. It happened at the Philadelphia Inquirer recently, except it was the Leftist Editor who was forced to resign. You just can't be Left anymore, you must be Far Left Radical Marxist.
They don't understand it, but that is what is going to get Trump re-elected.
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Wow.
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They don't understand it, but that is what is going to get Trump re-elected.
It should but the Media is doing a bang up job of pinning the "Virus Disaster" on him when 130,000 mostly elderly and sick people died out of a country of 335 Million.
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It should but the Media is doing a bang up job of pinning the "Virus Disaster" on him when 130,000 mostly elderly and sick people died out of a country of 335 Million.
Don't you know that trump should have fast-tracked a serology test for COVID-19 months before the Chinese reported the initial outbreak?
We got that claim from our own esteemed perfessor POS.
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Don't you know that trump should have fast-tracked a serology test for COVID-19 months before the Chinese reported the initial outbreak?
We got that claim from our own esteemed FAKE perfessor POS.
He's the GREATEST living expert on everything.....
just ask him.