Posted on 01/16/2022 7:12:38 AM PST by AuntB
Ex-NY Times journalist warns of corporate wokeness in media industry: 'What happens is a kind of internal self-censorship' Former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss confronted CNN’s Brian Stelter about his network’s coverage of the COVID-19 lab leak theory when listing examples of why the world has gone mad
"Where can I start? Well, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The NY Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you're not able to say out loud and in public there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad," Weiss said. When you're not able to say the Hunter Biden laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad. When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress instead of segregation, the world has gone mad. There are dozens of examples." "People who work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on right now, to say it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory," Weiss said. "But you and I both know that it would be delusional to claim otherwise that touching your finger to an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being demonized as well, so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship."
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When you're not able to say out loud and in public there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.
When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad," Weiss said.
When you're not able to say the Hunter Biden laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.
When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress instead of segregation, the world has gone mad.
There are dozens of examples."
I couldn't find anything on FR about Bari Wise or this wonderful commentary. Worth noting, imo. Short Video at the link.
Keep in mind, the largest private stock owner in the NY Times is Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico and he controls the democrats and many republicans like the Bush’s. It was Jeb Bush who GW sent in 2008 to Mexico at Slim’s bidding because he demanded that we bail out Lehman Bros......
Who pulls the democrat strings? Who is Carlos Slim Helu? A name YOU should know!
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Carlos+Slim
https://bariweiss.substack.com/
Bari WEISS, not Wise. She does an excellent newsletter with a variety of writers.
Great points!
Glad to see you again, AuntB!
I heard that only owners of a certain class of stock in The New York Times have a say. I forget what class of stock that is, but I remember that only 8 people own such shares. Those 8 alone determine New York Times editorial policy.
Some libs, like Bill Maher and Bari Weiss are beginning to see the light. Hope others will become enlightened.
I’m surprised the microphone did not have a malfunction.
Bari is a bright woman- the left now despises her.
Seriously? You think he has no influence???
Sorry! I am very I’ll.. should not be posting. I will never again Ms. Word police
Let's say there's an almost unbreakable incentive systems in place that in the short run helps news organizations but in the long run destroys the industry. For example - let's say top editors receive 'news packets' from democrat war rooms that allow downsized news organizations to function...but...
disinformation by omission has been going on for many decades. Walter Cronkite was famous for it.
What’s happened has been that the same technique has been used to a suffocating degree.
Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist famous for being a Jewish woman who does not want any more rights than she currently has, dated Saturday Night Live comedian Kate McKinnon when they were both undergraduates at Columbia University.
The provocative writer said in a Vanity Fair profile what had only been previously rumored — that she and McKinnon dated on and off for years in college, and maintain a friendship.
It’s thrilling news for any lady who is giddy to bed a public intellectual who wants to pump the breaks on believing abused women.
“I’ve been in love with both men and women,” Weiss told Vanity Fair. She added, “I don’t trade on my sexual identity in that way for political points. I think that’s lame and it’s not my style.”
Stelter at least lets Ms. Weiss talk. She was able to make her very cogent (and truthful) argument without him interrupting much. I think her preemptive shush at 1:18 may have helped, lol.
If you use the correct spelling of her name, Bari Weiss, as a keyword, there's dozens of articles on FR referring her.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/bariweiss/index?tab=articles
Bari Weiss is a liberal contrarian in the mold of Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Glenn Greenwald but she's been punching left lately which has earned her a lot of enemies from the crowd she used to run with before resigning in protest from the New York Times.
Her podcast "Honestly" (available on many streaming platforms) and substack Common Sense are both outstanding. I really enjoy the work she is doing.
The opposite is true, which is why we, the right, have joined in with our own cancel culture as well. For if we fail to act in retaliation, then we are by default succumbing to it.
“When you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The NY Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you’re not able to say out loud and in public there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad.”
Depends on what class of stock he owns.
Headline: Ex journo roasts potato.
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