Bari Weiss blisters The New York Times monolithically-Progressive Orwellian anti-wrongthink culture, as the centrist opinion editor quits to escape the task of squelching fresh ideas while “publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country.” Will American journalism ever awaken to the diversity of opinion in this broad nation, or will they continue to create a hostile work environment for anyone who believes that a newspaper should “invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion”, as the founder of the Times wrote in his famous 1896 statement of principles?
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“If you’re so smart, why don’t you pick up your queues faster”
Gentlemen: Mark Levin over a year ago wrote UNFREEDOM of the PRESS. “Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press,” explains publisher Simon & Schuster. “Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: ‘not government oppression or suppression,’ he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.” (Publisher). Mark Levin writes in his opening chapter: “It bears remembering that the purpose of the Free Press like the purpose of Free Speech, is to nurture the mooned, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, advocate and reinforce America;’s Founding principals–that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and well-funcgtionik g civil society and republic. Moreover, the media are to expose official actions aimed at squelching speech and communication. But when the Media functions a propaganda tool for a single political party and ideology, they not only destroy their own purpose but threaten the existence of a free republic.
“It is surely not for the government to control the press, and yet the press is not capable of policing itself. We must remember, we are not merely observers, we are the citizenry.”
Well Bill it seems that the marxist media is throwing the two word phrase at we the people.
I’ve worked in entertainment and now education my entire professional life. I’ve always self-censored.
The NYT is the Pravda of the West. “Serving Propaganda and Disinformation” should be their masthead. They are the leftist court in the Twilight Zone episode “The Obsolete Man” where “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”
The really scary part of that is that the NYT does what it does voluntarily. They deceive and take the side of the left of their own free will and with great enthusiasm. In the Soviet Union if you wrote for Pravda and didn’t write what you were told to, with the proper attitude and gratitude for The Party, you got a one way ticket on the Midnight Gulag Express.
The people at the Times do what they do thinking it shows the world what wonderful people they are. That is runaway ego-centrism of the sort you might expect from a child …
“Look at me, Mommy! I’m a good girl because I’m sharing my sister’s dollies and dishes and she’s bad ’cause she wants to play with her own toys! Aren’t I wonderful?”
… and I don’t know how you bring them back down to reality from there. It’s a positive feedback loop from a nightmare.
One guess which is the only online news publication my district pays a subscription to, and is linked in the teachers intranet folders?
Yep.
I never use it, but my colleagues have extensively used it as a primary source.
Babylon Bee? Nah, probably The Onion.
Oh, NY Times you say. Same type of status in my book.
What the NYT engine pulls behind it:
What is that? It kinda look like something that tears up the tracks. With regard to this show I’d say that’s about it for the NYT (thanks for the comment).
As soon as I saw this story I thought of you guys and hoped it would get into this week’s shows. Lots of truth in that ladies letter. I suspect it will fall on deaf ears.
The NYTimes was the paper from which I learned to read news. I used to “help” my mom with the crosswords (never could finish Friday’s) and dove into the sports pages. Then started reading the rest of the headlines as I got older. I think I can say that I have had no need to check out the NY Times in well over two decades.
Good for you!!
Instapundit occasionally lures me there. I back out as soon as I see the masthead. I never read the world’s most respected left-wing-looney propaganda rag.
Cancel culture is the new black
This is another case of things having to get worse before they get better. The leadership at the NYT should have fired all of the little b*stards in the mob – there’s no shortage of journos looking for work these days. Let them get worse until they burn themselves down – if something can’t go on forever, it won’t.