Posted on 11/20/2019 8:31:55 PM PST by Beave Meister
Since Donald Trump won the 2016 election, America's paper of record has become a house organ for his resistance. Pet issues like polyamory have received too much attention, while important issues like Hunter Biden's corruption have received scant follow up.
That's how the New York Times looks from the outside. From the inside, it looks much worse.
Most other Timesfolk don't know us. We do not participate in the paper's Slack channels or town hall meetings. After new software was installed to gauge what the paper's staff was reading online, we have begun to print out copies off site of Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat columns. Inside the paper's bureaus and newsroom, these printouts are a kind of samizdat, reminding us of what America's most important newspaper could be, but too often isn't.
We are not the deep news. We are the steady news. We do what we can to prevent the Times from publishing errors, fictions, and ideological imbecility. We have sabotaged style rules and regulations when we can to save what's left of the Times‘s integrity. But it is an uphill struggle and one I fear we may not win.
In 2018, the Times came very close to eliminating all gendered pronouns in their news copy. A similar proposal, which required the preferred pronouns for bylined reporters and subjects of news stories, nearly became house style had our team not stolen the proposal from Dean Baquet's desk last summer.
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Interesting
I do not trust the “resistance” in what is famously referred to as Pravda on The Hudson. It correctly first earned that label in the period which I am sure the “resistance” there thinks was a “good” period for the paper. It is, was and will always be Pravda on The Hudson, until it closes.
I first read resistance as repentence, in the headline.
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