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The thought police are seizing control of America’s liberal newsrooms
NYPOST ^ | June 8, 2020 | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 06/09/2020 7:31:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

James Bennet, the Editorial Page editor at The New York Times resigned over the weekend after backlash over an op-ed by US Sen. Tom Cotton.

Debate is no longer allowed in America’s liberal newsrooms, and the left has the scalps to prove it.

James Bennet is out as NY Times editorial-page editor; Stan Wischnowski, as top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Neither was allowed to stay even after humiliating themselves by admitting their thought crimes and hailing the virtues of the lynch mobs.

Bennet’s sin: His paper published an opinion column by a US senator arguing for deploying the military if riots got out of control.

“This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger,” numerous Times employees tweeted, without explanation.

Letting Sen. Tom Cotton write what a majority of Americans believe is dangerous? Pure idiocy. Especially when the paper’s run pieces by a host of tyrants, without complaints.

Yet, after briefly defending the principle of free exchange of ideas, Bennet and the paper’s publisher folded. Now Bennet and his No. 2 are gone.

Wischnowski is unemployed thanks to a headline. “Buildings Matter, Too” ran above a piece by Pulitzer Prize-winner Inga Saffron, who warned that riot “damage will ultimately end up hurting the very people the protests are meant to uplift.”

That was too disrespectful to #BlackLivesMatter — though the piece was perfectly progressive. Now the Inquirer is vowing to empower the “sensitivity police,” too.

Employees of that crucible of democracy, the press, now see voices different from their own as a threat to be crushed — and the bosses don’t dare tell them no. Pray for the republic.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blm; communism; media; msm; newsrooms; thoughtpolice

1 posted on 06/09/2020 7:31:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

This isn’t a new phenomena it’s just that they are running wide open with it now.


2 posted on 06/09/2020 7:34:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s weird when a publication describes something that happened decades ago like it’s currently happening.


3 posted on 06/09/2020 7:35:10 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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The tense is wrong. It is not “seizing”, is “has seized”


4 posted on 06/09/2020 7:36:00 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: MarvinStinson

they are the well trained thought police from our very own liberal colleges where free speech is against student policy.

They tested the methods on campuses for decades. Now they’re bringing it to their version of the real world.


5 posted on 06/09/2020 7:37:53 AM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: MarvinStinson

TV and print media are dying. They simply can’t compete with the internet and everything it offers in terms of immediate access, access anywhere, anytime, information of any length, and the multiple formats of video, audio, print, etc…

An “in depth” TV news report will give you 3 minutes of information. Most are much shorter. This is simply pathetic for anyone who wants to truly be informed.

And as such organizations die, they will become MORE ideological and close-minded, as they circle the wagons, trying to ward off their impending doom.


6 posted on 06/09/2020 7:38:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: dsrtsage

It’s cart and horse reversal. The thought police are orchestrated by liberal newsrooms.


7 posted on 06/09/2020 7:40:02 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: MarvinStinson

“are seizing”??

The thought police successfully seized the newsrooms about thirty years ago. They are just now emboldened to drop any pretense.


8 posted on 06/09/2020 7:40:31 AM PDT by odawg
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In a different sense, this is not as dangerous as it seems.

The danger is that the New York Times remains viewed as a significant entity no matter what its policies or opinions.

Why is that?

If the organization reveals that it has no moral or ethical focus and is a tool of a bankrupt ideology (communism) then nobody should pay it any attention.

Why do we continue to see articles posted here about what they say on CNN or what is printed in the NYT? We know it won’t be worthwhile or useful. Do we go out of our way to find out what the latest offerings of the Cuban state media happen to be? No, because we know it will be drivel and a waste of our time to consider it.


9 posted on 06/09/2020 7:54:36 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Infiltration of newsrooms happened a long time ago. think spin, spin, spin.

They are just purging anyone that won’t totally toe the socialist/anarchist line.


10 posted on 06/09/2020 7:57:24 AM PDT by Yulee
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To: cdcdawg

yup

now just blatantly overt


11 posted on 06/09/2020 8:00:47 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Yulee

The colleges are witnessing old school liberals being overwhelmed and outmaneuvered by open Marxists.


12 posted on 06/09/2020 8:05:38 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
The colleges are witnessing old school liberals being overwhelmed and outmaneuvered by open Marxists.

Just like the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks.

13 posted on 06/09/2020 8:06:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Wallace T.

To borrow a line from the Nazis, it’s “The Triumph of the Will”, the Marxists have the stronger Will.


14 posted on 06/09/2020 8:07:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MarvinStinson
Good! As each succeeding faction wrests power from the last faction that was in control, they will liquidate the previous faction. Which will make the World for a second or two a better place.

They have as a guideline the precedence set by Comrade Stalin of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics. When he took of the Soviet Union from Lenin by 1942 he had liquidated every person that was in a position of power under Lenin.

That is the Communists m.o. To wit} The stronger eliminate the weaker to prevent the weak from becoming strong . But the young Communists over here will, at the right time, learn this the hard way.

15 posted on 06/09/2020 8:11:37 AM PDT by sport
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To: MarvinStinson

The government doesn’t directly control thought. It leaves that job to the media, which has already implemented 100% thought control: you get fired, demonetized and shamed if you break the rules.


16 posted on 06/09/2020 9:02:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Never forget Justine Damond, murdered by a NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN cop. (Oh, and no riots))
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To: MarvinStinson

James Bennet: Unperson.


17 posted on 06/09/2020 9:24:28 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: MarvinStinson

As the medical masks are put on, the leftist masks are taken off.

Everyone’s outing themselves.


18 posted on 06/09/2020 9:28:19 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: MarvinStinson

How is this any different from the way they have operated for 80-90 years?


19 posted on 06/09/2020 9:55:15 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: MarvinStinson

So what does that mean? They go from hate America to despise America?-)


20 posted on 06/09/2020 10:36:31 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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