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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