Hi everyone i hope you're all well. So
it's fairly obvious that the mainstream
media has done what you'd call a sharp
shift to the left over the past decade
or so with a particularly sharp leftwood
veer since donald trump was announced as
the republican presidential nominee in
2015.
this was less to do with the fact that
the nominee was donald trump
specifically i think and more to do with
the fact that hillary clinton
was the democratic nominee the media
left was
determined to have their fairytale
intersectional narrative of the first
black president
followed by the first female president
and nothing nor no one was going to
stand in their way
except of course donald trump and the
rest is history
one of the most notable publications who
threw their weight
unashamedly behind hillary clinton was
that old grey lady
the New York Times not only did they
jump right
on board the donald trump's the zoo
mexicans rupert's bandwagon in their
commentary
they actually officially endorsed
hillary clinton as the nominee
which even they acknowledge was a bit
rich coming from a publication that
claims to give both sides a fair hearing
they stated in any normal election year
we'd compare the two presidential
candidates side by side on the issues
but this is not a normal year a
comparison like that would be an empty
exercise in a race where one candidate
our choice hillary clinton
has a record of service and a raft of
pragmatic ideas
and the other donald trump discloses
nothing concrete about himself or his
plans while promising the moon and
offering the stars on
layaway we will explain in a subsequent
editorial why we believe mr trump to be
the worst nominee put forward by a major
party
in modern american history
needless to say when donald trump won
the mainstream media
with the exception of a few people at
fox news was left with an awful lot of
egg on their faces
and as we have seen they've handled it
not by doing a polite mayor culpa and
you know
trying harder but doubling down on their
lives and hyperbole
creating more and more outrageous
stories about donald trump and his
administration
however there was a very very brief
period of time before they threw their
collective tantrum at not getting their
way
where the media did actually take
strides to improve themselves
there were at least a few editors out
there who recognized that they were
simply no longer in touch with the
american people
and the new york times was one such
outlet that allowed themselves to go
through this tiny window of reckoning by
hiring commentator Bari Weiss as an
editor and writer
for the times opinion section now barry
isn't your usual regressive left as
twitter obsessed trump despising sjw
that the new york times had on staff all
through the 2016 election
while she is not a maga hat wearing
conservative trump supporter she's what
i would call a centrist who leans
rightwards and leftwards every so often
depending on the issue you know
like most people for example
she wrote a rather famous article for
the times criticizing the metoo movement
and she also wrote a comprehensive
outline of the intellectual dark web
that did not
involve calling all of them racist
bigoted adult white
white supremacist detention seekers etc
etc she's also
famously pro-israel yet she has also
written scathing criticism of donald
trump and given her genuinely liberal
values
i would say that card-carrying
conservatives probably irritate her
now to your average person this is what
you call sensible moderate balanced and
most importantly
varied commentary however to your
average coastal dwelling twitter
frequenting regressive leftists she's
practically mussolini
and since at least if we are to believe
the revelations that came out last week
from Bari
the new york times has a number of these
lefty lovers on staff
people who believe that any deviation
from the far-left anti-trump dogma is
not only wrong think but
evil which must be suppressed barry was
never going to have a very good time of
it there
even though she was in fact brought on
board to do a specific job that is
create ideological diversity as such and
in spectacular fashion
Bari Weiss recently resigned from the
new york times and what a resignation it
was
rather than go through the usual quiet
hr process barry wrote a long and indeed
blistering resignation letter which she
made public
on her website it reads more like an
article for spiked or the spectator than
a resignation letter and serves as a
shocking but
not unexpected indictment of the
intolerance and spite
of the progressives who apparently make
up the younger ranks of the new york
times
it also makes a number of rather astute
observations about the regressive left
in general which has caused some
discomfort among her critics see
progressives are so
sure that they are correct about
everything and ultimately the
enlightened chosen class
and therefore genuinely believe they
should be beyond reproach
so let's have a little look through
barry weiss's rather spicy resignation
letter
shall we dear ag it is with sadness that
i write to tell you that i am resigning
from the new york
times i joined the paper with gratitude
and optimism three years ago
i was hired with the goal of bringing
invoices 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
the reason for this effort was clear the
paper's failure to anticipate the
outcome of the 2016 election
meant that it didn't have a firm grasp
of the country it covers
but 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 learnt instead a new
consensus has emerged in the press but
perhaps especially
at this paper the truth isn't a process
of collective discovery but an orthodoxy
already known to an enlightened few
whose job it is to inform everyone else
bingo that is exactly what i and so many
others have been saying for the past
five years about the media and the
regressive left in general
i literally mentioned it a couple of
minutes ago in this video
the left who do populate most of the
press think that what they believe
is true and correct and beyond debate
and it is their job to beat it into
everyone else and suppress
any opposing opinion let's read on
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
also so very very true since twitter is
for all intents and purposes a lefty
safe space in terms of the fact that
it's usually pro left hashtags that are
allowed to trend the political news
presented in twitter moments is always
anti-trump or anti-conservative and
conservative commentators have been
prolifically banned over the years while
the most vile and abusive and often
anti-semitic of leftist public figures
linda remain unbanned and verified
there is a tendency for these regressive
leftist journalists to engage in a
little bit of confirmation
bias too many people in the media seem
to believe that twitter is an accurate
reflection of public opinion
it's not as evidenced by a number of
recent election results
this is most likely one of the reasons
the new york times and other
publications got the 2016 election
results so wrong
the fact that so many of the twitterati
agreed with them made them feel all warm
and fuzzy so they didn't
actually bother to get on the ground and
talk to the people who you know
aren't on twitter which is most people
but as Bari Weisspointed out they
still don't seem to have learned their
lesson
as their editorial line still seems to
only cater for what you'd call a narrow
audience of lefty university students
to continue my own forays into wrong
think have made me the subject of
constant bullying by colleagues who
disagree with my views
they've called me a and a racist i have
learnt to brush off comments about
how i'm writing about the jews again
several colleagues perceived to be
friendly with me were badgered by
co-workers
my work and my character are openly
demeaned on company-wide slack channels
where masthead editors regularly weigh
in there some co-workers insist i need
to be rooted out if the company is to be
a truly inclusive one
while others post axe emojis next to my
name
i do not understand how you have allowed
this kind of behavior to go on
inside your company in full view of the
paper's entire
staff and the public and i certainly
can't square how you and other times
leaders have stood by while
simultaneously praising me in private
for my courage
showing up for work as a centrist at an
american newspaper should not require
bravery now that right there is the crux
of the letter
if we are to take what she said at face
value her holy centrist views exposed
the bigotry of the regressive leftist on
staff who used all the same tricks on
her that they use on everyone else
name calling intimidation attempting to
ostracize her by hounding her friends
and degrading her internally behind
her back now this kind of behavior is an
hr
nightmare and in any other context would
be called workplace bullying or
harassment
trigger and investigation and the
perpetrators would be rooted out and
either disciplined or
fired but since ideology was in play
here and since people of a regressive
leftist mindset think that their vitriol
against those who disagree with them
is entirely justified it obviously went
unchecked again we're just going by
barry's word here i mean i don't know
the full scope of the working
environment
obviously because i don't work there i
don't know what barrow is like to work
with there may have been other factors
at play
but in any context i would have thought
that putting an
ax emerging next to a colleague's name
in a workplace chat room
even in jest is highly inappropriate
workplace behavior
falls well below professional standards
and fosters a hostile working
environment
but apparently none of that counts if
you have the
wrong views it was this segment of the
resignation letter that really seemed to
incense
Bari's leftist critics in the broader
media rather than inquire as to why a
jewish woman someone who would be
defended as an oppressed minority
if she had different political views was
being apparently
badgered and bullied at work to the
point where she felt forced to resign
they deflected in some cases they blamed
Bari for being too controversial and
provocative herself
in other cases they brought up editorial
mistakes barry had made years ago as
evidence of why she
low-key deserved what was happening to
her they even tried to shift the
goalposts by insisting that barry was
actually talking about cancel culture in
her letter namely a guardian journalist
called moira donegan
who lumped barry in with what she called
the right wing professionally cancelled
pundit
saying that this group wanted to be
cancelled because they were just in it
for the attention
this is despite the fact that barry is
not in fact right wing and was not in
fact talking about cancer culture in her
letter
her issue was with the way she alleges
she was treated by her colleagues at the
times
and the culture of illiberal liberalism
that she had grown frustrated with
obviously but the reason moira donegan
at all had this reaction was because
so-called progressives with their group
think collectivist mentality
perceive any criticism of their ideology
and the behavior of people who agree
with them
as a personal attack on themselves and
their own
morality and since they base their
entire ideological identity on being the
only true
moral class of people any hint that they
might not actually have the moral high
ground
even if it's not them personally being
accused
challenges and usurps the very core of
their being
and they just can't cope with that
anyway Bari raises a final point that
is just so relevant to the media at
large
the paper of record is more and more the
record of those living in a distant
galaxy
one whose concerns are profoundly
removed from the lives of most people
this is a galaxy in which to choose just
a few recent examples
the soviet space program is lauded for
its diversity
the doxing of teenagers in the name of
justice is condoned
and the worst caste systems in human
history includes the united states
alongside
germany and there it is what we all
already knew about the media
it's full of people who are so far
removed from the lives of your everyday
person
and so privileged that they think the
fact their preferred candidate did not
win the u.s election in 2016
equates to the mass oppression of all
that is good and righteous
that they are willing to accept notions
and orthodoxies that
are so completely outlandish through
any lens other than that of extreme
intersectionality
and dismiss anyone who questions them as
ultimately scum
who should be punished for their wrong
thing
all in all the barry weiss issue is
ultimately really depressing
it thoroughly depresses me that a
publication with the reach of the new
york times which has a responsibility to
seek out and convey the truth as best it
can
is full of people who are not only happy
to convey only what they
think the truth should be but openly
harass and intimidate a colleague for
having different views on some
things while management apparently
doesn't have the guts to do
anything about it and yes well of course
Bari's regressive leftist co-workers
should be free to say whatever they want
about her i'm not saying that they can't
it's a shame the only person using their
own free speech to criticize and push
back on them
is Bari herself rather than those whose
responsibility it is to do so
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