How ‘Boodthirsty’ New York Times Employees Turned Against Their Own

New York Post ^ | February 21, 2023 | Steve Krakauer

[nickcarraway]

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“There was like this giant communal Slack chat for the whole company that became sort of the digital gallows,” he told me. “And all these angry, backbiting staffers were gathering there and demanding that heads roll and the most bloodthirsty of the employees were these sort of weird tech and audio staffers and then a handful of people who wrote for like the Arts and Leisure section, and the Style section, and the magazine, which, in other words, you know, it was no one who was actually out covering any of the protests or the riots or the politics. It was just sort of like a bunch of Twitter-brained crazies kind of running wild on Slack. And the leadership was so horrified by what was happening. They just completely lost their nerve.”

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“Before we knew it, we were in all these series of town hall meetings basically watching James Bennet defend himself before the Star Chamber, and it was awful,” McCreesh said. “James is a really great guy. We all really respected him, and you can have arguments about the op-ed or whether it should have been run or the editing process. This was something else. It was like a Maoist struggle session.”

“The worst part was that a lot of the people who were stabbing James in the front were the ones that he hired and brought to the newspaper,” said McCreesh. “It was like Caesar on the floor of the Roman Senate or something … I remember closing my laptop and pouring a huge glass of wine even though it was at like noon. Because I was so f–king freaked out by what we had just witnessed. Most of the adults in the room figured that what we were witnessing would pass, and it was just

[dennisw]

lulzzzzz ... Democrat Nasties eating their own

[blackdog]

Liberals always do.

[Boogieman]

“Most of the adults in the room figured that what we were witnessing would pass...”

And that’s how cultural revolution-style struggle sessions always succeed. Because the “adults in the room” always decides to keep their heads down and say nothing, because really they are cowards who are afraid to be the next ones called up on stage.

[Leaning Right]

One thing liberals (oops, I mean progressives) don’t realize is that today you can be a hero, be under suspicion tomorrow, and then cancelled the day after that. No one is immune.

Oh, and I’d better mention one more thing. In Stalin’s USSR, there was one more step after being cancelled. It was a trip to the execution wall. But that couldn’t happen here, could it?

[toddausauras]

Leftist freaks will need to be seriously dealt with at some point. Gonna be real ugly.

[OHPatriot]

Gonna be real “fun” too.

[1Old Pro]

I remember closing my laptop and pouring a huge glass of wine even though it was at like noon.

Chardonnay no doubt.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“The worst part was that a lot of the people who were stabbing James in the front were the ones that he hired and brought to the newspaper,”

I almost thought they were talking about James O’Keefe.

[toddausauras]

I’d like to hope so. Reminds me, gotta get back to the range and practice.

[Chode]

[Lurker]

Pass the popcorn.

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[Billthedrill]

...the most bloodthirsty of the employees were these sort of weird tech and audio staffers and then a handful of people who wrote for like the Arts and Leisure section, and the Style section, and the magazine, which, in other words, you know, it was no one who was actually out covering any of the protests or the riots or the politics.

Well, yes - reporters are no longer hard-bitten pavement pounders looking for a story, they're insanely politicized j-school graduates with no life experience at all. They've been in playpens all their lives and think it's the way the world works for everybody.

“What was interesting about that, and I think is legitimate … as we contemplate a media future, is that there is a generation of young kids who believe that objectivity is akin to white supremacy,” Chozick told me...

They ape what they were taught and are very well paid for it. You get what you reward.

[minnesota_bound]

Ah yes.... co-workers.
Stab! stab! stab!

[vpintheak]

This is why I generally hate “listening sessions” and crap like this. They always devolve into bitch sessions for grumpy and generally unproductive employees to “stick it to the man”. A waste of time and solve or help absolutely nothing.

[StAnDeliver]

"It was like a Maoist struggle session...Very few people realized that what we were witnessing in real time was like a murder. And it was gross.” -- Shawn McCreesh

“What was interesting about that, and I think is legitimate … as we contemplate a media future, is that there is a generation of young kids who believe that objectivity is akin to white supremacy,” Chozick told me. “I’m not saying I disagree with them, or I agree with them. I’m saying there is a real debate here happening … You put out that fire, whether it was James Bennet getting ousted or corrections or apologies or whatever … [but] that’s still a debate. But I don’t know if anyone is ready to have or knows how to settle it.” -- Amy Chozick

So much goddamn Schadenfreude! *burp*

[clearcarbon]

"You step outside the bounds of acceptability, you try to introduce some thought-provoking opinion into the intellectual ecosystem, and you cross the kids in the newsroom? "

The behavior of the "kids in the newsroom" must be a reflection of the social interaction of the kids when they were in the classroom.