Bari Weiss Resigns From "The New York Times" , "Standing Up For Principle, Puts A Target On Your Back"
Bari Weiss, a writer and opinion editor for the New York Times, resigned from the paper of record Tuesday. She published her resignation letter, citing a “new consensus” at the Times “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.”
In the letter, posted on her personal website and addressed to A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, Weiss noted that she was hired in an attempt to diversify voices at the Times. After the 2016 election showed the newspaper “didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers,” Weiss — a Jewish, pro-Israel, pro-choice, bisexual writer who was criticized by the Left for questioning the #MeToo movement — joined.
Now, she says, “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 learned” by the New York Times newsroom.
Weiss also mentions dealing with discrimination, harassment, anti-Semitism, and being called a Nazi and a racist at the Times. “Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery,” she says.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.
Full Article/Comments Eliminated Do To "Fear" of reprisal(Nazies don't approve any "opinions", but Theirs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/14/ba ... your-back/