[ April 24, 2024 ]
In a scathing resignation letter, Opinion editor Bari Weiss slams the NYT toxic environment: “intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times.”
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people,” Weiss wrote. “This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
Bari Weiss quits New York Times after bullying by colleagues over views: ‘They have called me a Nazi and a racist’
Her resignation letter said ‘the lessons that ought to have followed the (2016) election…have not been learned’
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New York Times opinion columnist and editor Bari Weiss announced Tuesday she is leaving the Gray Lady, saying she was bullied by colleagues in an “illiberal environment,” weeks after declaring there was a “civil war” inside the paper.
Weiss published a scathing resignation letter that she sent to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on her personal website, noting she doesn’t understand how toxic behavior is allowed inside the newsroom and “showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.”
New York Times opinion columnist and editor Bari Weiss announced Tuesday she is leaving the Gray Lady, saying she was bullied by colleagues.
“It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times,” Weiss wrote.
Weiss then explained that she joined the paper in 2017 to help offer a different perspective, as the Times’ “failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers,” and fixing that issue was critical.
“But 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,” Weiss wrote. “Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: 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.”
Weiss then wrote that “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times,” but social media acts as the ultimate editor.
Weiss published a scathing resignation letter that she sent to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on her personal website, noting she doesn’t understand how toxic behavior is allowed inside the newsroom and “showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.”
“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,” she wrote. “Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
Last month, Weiss offered insight about the internal battle among her colleagues following the publishing of an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. that sparked a major backlash from its own staff.
Hours before the Times offered a mea culpa for running Cotton’s piece — which called for troops to be sent in to quell the George Floyd riots — Weiss claimed that a “civil war” was brewing within the paper.
In her resignation letter, Weiss noted that her own “forays into Wrongthink” have made her the subject of “constant bullying by colleagues” who disagree with her views.
“They have called me a Nazi and a racist,” she wrote.
“I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the Jews again.’ Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers,” Weiss added. “My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in.”
Weiss then said she doesn’t understand how Sulzberger has allowed such behavior inside the newsroom “in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public.”
“I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery,” Weiss wrote. “Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times.”
DEMS TRASH NY TIMES OVER FRONT-PAGE HEADLINE DEEMED TOO FAVORABLE TO TRUMP
She continued: “Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? And so self-censorship has become the norm.”
Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury provided a statement to Fox News.
“We appreciate the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion. I’m personally committed to ensuring that The Times continues to publish voices, experiences and viewpoints from across the political spectrum in the Opinion report,” Kingsbury said. “We see every day how impactful and important that approach is, especially through the outsized influence The Times’s opinion journalism has on the national conversation.”
The now-former Times columnist wrote in the scathing letter that rules at the paper “are applied with extreme selectivity” and work goes unscrutinized if it aligns with the new orthodoxy.
“Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets,” she wrote. “Op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble, if not fired.”
Brit Hume on the ‘mutiny’ at the New York Times over Tom Cotton’s op-edVideoShe then bashed the process that unfolded over Cotton’s op-ed, noting that nobody cared to amend other editorials, such as “Cheryl Strayed’s fawning interview with the writer Alice Walker, a proud anti-Semite who believes in lizard Illuminati.”
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people,” Weiss wrote. “This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its “diversity”; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
Weiss said that despite her struggles to be accepted by colleagues, she believes they don’t all hold these views. She speculated that Times employees are playing along and possibly “believe the ultimate goal is righteous,” “believe that they will be granted protection if they nod along,” “feel lucky to have a job in a contracting industry” or know that “standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits.”
Weiss wrote that the Times’ culture hurts “independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers” and explained how it will be seen by the next generation of journalists.
“Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry,” she wrote.
Weiss added that “America is a great country that deserves a great newspaper,” but doesn’t feel the Gray Lady is currently providing that. She complimented some former colleagues, noting that “some of the most talented journalists in the world don’t still labor” for the paper she is walking away from.
“Which is what makes the illiberal environment especially heartbreaking,” Weiss wrote. “I can no longer do the work that you brought me here to do—the work that Adolph Ochs described in that famous 1896 statement: ‘to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.’”
Her last column was published on May 25, making the case that comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan represents the “new mainstream media.”
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
Shhhh… you’re not suppose to know this. The CASTE is alive, well and thriving in the U.S. to via India VISA people and other legal India immigrants. They bring that along with them as well as most openly discriminating against legal Americans in hiring once they get in positions of authority. The CAST system is something extra they bring with them. Even lefty NPR admits that and that was back in 2018! Indians don’t speak up on it because they are fearful of being outed and making things worse for themselves and many are here illegally. We have at least 600,000 illegals from India and that number was from back in 2018. The Dalits are the lowest caste in Hindu. Isn’t DIVERSITY grand?
When Caste Discrimination Comes To The United States
By Sonia Paul
April 25, 2018 4:00 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/25/605030018/when-caste-discrimination-comes-to-the-united-states
3 years ago
No mention of the pink elephant in the room — Immigrants.
Muslim, Mexican and angry Asian Trojan Horses in the newsrooms (not to mention ad agencies, education systems and government-bureaucratic staffs) are arrogant, adamant, hysterical victim-bullies and visceral haters of America who no one can disagree with or stand up to, least of all the liberal-type marshmallows who choose journalism, and gasp at the thought of themselves taking the “conservative” side of any debate, so they just cave, and cave, and cave… and soon we’ve given our country away.
Immigrants in a Trojan Horse introduced by Mister Obama, the most ignominious of all.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
A similar situation exists with the MSM here in the UK. There are certain stories that never see the light of day or aren’t extensively published &/or publicised if they are critical of protected minorities: muslims, even separate from BAME (other ethnic minorities) & the militant LGBTQ brigade.
3 years ago
Reply to
John U
Just learnt about the “cancel culture”, new words to use to silence us from freedom of speech.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
UNFORTUNATELY, AGAIN, I BET A LOT OF THESE LEFTIST LOSERS @ THE NYT HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME BUT THE OBAMA DID BRING THIS ABOUT! HE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE GINI WHO OPENED UP PANDORA’S BOX OF LEFTIST MISDEEDS, MURDER AND MAYHEM! HE HELPED INAUGURATE TODAYS CANCEL CULTURE! WE ON THE RIGHT HAVE THE RIGHT TO HATE HIM, YES, WE DO!
3 years ago
Who’s going to tell us what the cause of the “accidental” destruction of a critically important billion-dollar US Navy ship and necessary piece of the Western Pacific doctrine for China expansion was?
Who was that welder?
And what country did he emigrate from and what “god” does he stick his ass up in the air to?
And the five Air Force fighters down in one month?
We want answers and retribution.
3 years ago
The NYT newsroom is infested with angry, vicious, envious, Stockholm Syndrome immigrants who hate our country — the country that offered them their life’s salvation.
This editor, even in her “scathing” resignation letter COULD NOT EVEN SAY BOO about it.
Every victim-bully and thug who threatened and intimidated her was an immigrant or POC, I promise you.
Every one.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
UNFORTUNATELY, I BET AT LEAST A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THEM WERE NATIVE-BORN LEFTISTS WHOSE COURAGE AND INTEGRITY DEPARTED FROM THEM LONG AGO! PATHETIC PAPER!
3 years ago
WHERE IS BRET STEPHENS’ RESIGNATION
with his statement on NY Times workplace anti-Semitism?
Since he foolishly left the Wall Street Journal for US Der Stermer #1 (WashPost
is #2) is he willing to resign and tell all in order to fight workplace anti-Semitism?
Bari Weiss need to out the big, well funded Jewish organizations that have
allowed campus anti-Semitism to spin out of control – the exact
environment Weiss describes at the Times is what happens to pro-Israel
and Conservative students.
3 years ago
Dear Bari
Welcome to the real world. Perhaps WSJ has an opening for a real journalist.
NYT is peopled with permanently infantilized children.
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
Twitter Censors Photos of Goya Beans as “Potentially Sensitive Content”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/big-tech-now-censoring-bean-cans-twitter-censors-photos-goya-beans-potentially-sensitive-content/
In Spanish, the label simply reads: “Black Beans” — not very controversial really…
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
THIS IS WHAT THE LEFT REALLY LOOKS LIKE-IDIOT LOONS! BUY GOYA PRODUCTS, RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
WSJ IS RINO DRIVEN AND GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE SYMPATHETIC! BET SHE WOULDN’T BE APPRECIATED THERE EITHER!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
Just as stupid here as you were in all caps at the other article. Can’t wait until you get bored and go away, moron.
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
OK, LITTLE MR/MRS OF THE WILDERNESS LIVING IN A HALL OF MIRRORS SO YOU CAN LOOK AT YOURSELF AND FANTASIZE ABOUT WHAT A GREAT PERSON YOU THINK YOU ARE! I DON’T NEED TO CALL YOU A MORON TO PROVE IT AS A GROWN UP BABY WITH DADDY ISSUES! PERHAPS YOU SHOULD SPEND SOME ENERGY ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTING TO THE DIALOGUE HERE WITH REAL INSIGHTS INSTEAD OF BEING OBSESSED WITH ALL CAPS BECAUSE OF FEELING LIKE YOU ARE BEING YELLED AT BY YOUR DADDY ALL THE TIME!
I’VE BEEN ON THIS GREAT BLOG BY THE CHAMPION ZIONIST, PAM GELLER FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS AND ONLY RAN INTO YOU RECENTLY! PERHAPS YOU ARE SOME democ-RAT TROLL TRYING TO CREATE A PROBLEM FOR AN ANTI-GLOBALIST RIGHTIST LIKE ME? GO BLOW SINCE ALL YOU ARE IS AN A–HOLE!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
You think you actually contribuite to something resembling a dialogue? You are just pissed because no one remotely takes you seriously.
You are just low rent Leftist scum pretending to be a conservative. You have the brain of an amoeba. You can’t even write like a conservative. Just another silly childish permanently infantilized Commie Troll.
I figure you will be here another day or so. You are a fraud and so easy to spot.
OK sh*t for brains. You get one more stupid post and then I will block you. I’ve spent enough time laughing at you as you get angrier and angrier.
3 years ago
It shouldn’t shock anyone that her Fascist colleagues called her a Nazi. It takes one to know one.
The NYT has been run by Radical Leftists, Communist sympathizers and self-hating Jews for years.
During WW II the NYT willfully buried reports about the concentration camps and Nazi atrocities. Yep, it happened.
Today, the paper routinely apologizes for Hamas and Hezbollah “militants”.
SAVE AMERICA FROM LEFTIST RULE. BOYCOTT THE NYT.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
WOW! I DIDN’T KNOW THAT ABOUT THAT RE: THE NYT! PATHETIC! OF COURSE MORE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID WHEN A SHIP FULL OF JEWISH REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY WASN’T ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK AT NYC! THE JEWS OF NYC SHOULD HAVE GONE DOWN TO THAT PORT AND DEMANDED THAT THOSE SOULS BE ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK UNTIL A COUNTRY WAS FOUND FOR THEM OF THEIR CHOICE OR THEY BE ALLOWED TO GO TO PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED ISRAEL!
3 years ago
‘If only comrade Stalin knew’…
3 years ago
About Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs, Mr. Levin read an illuminating article written in the New York Post by Mr. Michael Goodwin, formerly associated with NYTs. He exposes its racist history, reveals the Time’s “complicated legacy”.
The New York Time’s is a cultural wrecking ball, vandalizing agency against American history. Self-righteously it stands over its ugly own bone-yard. Mr. Goodwin unveils “that Confederated lady”, Bertha Levy, Ochs’ mother.
Cancel the NYTs! Pull down the NYTs! Defund the Times! — Command-center of all the fake news unfit to print.
On the mostly white NYT: “Every story these days is an editorial as the paper demands that every institution and individual conform to the Times’ views, or be denounced as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and misogynistic. [Sounds absolutely Stalanist.] Because of the Times’ exceptional influence, its demagoguery is playing a major role in shredding the fabric of our country.” ….
3 years ago
Good for her!
3 years ago
Reply to
Not Me
No she is a spoil sport that got out-meaned and is pouting! The leopard did not change its spots!
3 years ago
They always end up eating their own, that’s how commies roll.
3 years ago
Far-left NYT is run by ex-BBC Director General, Thompson, who was not aware of the Savile pedophile scandal at the BBC.Thompson denied knowing of a BBC program on accusations against Savile before the program was dropped soon after Savile’s death. Remember Uncle Joe’s favorite rag received the Pulitzer prize (Duranty) for false reporting.
3 years ago
Just learnt about the “Cancel Culture”
The modern ‘forces of oppression’ are the woke Left
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6171768873001
Meghan Markle is the ‘Princess of cancel culture’
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6171770811001
Ricky Gervais gives the ‘cancel culture cretins’ a massive serve
3 years ago
Alice Bailey died 1949, Part of The Great White Brotherhood, a Satantic Sect, before she moved to the USA to start the Luciferian Newspaper, now though her organisations now in the UN
https://www.lucistrust.org/book
Goodwill Plan
3 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
please don’t tell me it’s gonna be the 1960s again!!!
free love, free drugs, charlie manson weirdo wannabes, waco wannabees, etc. society needs structure, how can one live in a sh!tty way anyways?
children from broken homes and father “unknown”. easy targets for predators and vampires. moms just want sex money and plastic surgery. yuck!
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr Doo Bee
All that is already here. Only difference, is that there’s a lot more technology this time around.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr Doo Bee
Moral Decay, It is written as it is happening today
https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.verses/ID/897/Moral-Decay-verses.htm
3 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
GLAD I CAME BACK TO DEFEND MYSELF FROM ATTACKS AND NAME-CALLING OF MR. WILDERNESS WHO LIVES IN MIRRORS TO SEE THESE INSIGHTS! GOOD ONE!
MADAME BLAVATSKY WAS A TORTURED SOUL WHO HAD GENUINE METAPHYSICAL GIFTS. SHE STARTED A THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATION OF BOTH BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM BUT WAS AT HEART A BUDDHIST/CHRISTIAN MYSTIC WHO REALIZED AT THE END OF HER LIFE HER SOCIETY WAS BEING PERVERTED BY LUCIFERIANS AND SOCIALIST RADICALS. SHE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISINTANGLING HERSELF FROM ANNIE BESANT BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SHE DIED IN AN EPIDEMIC BROUGHT OVER BY CHINA IN 1890-1891.
WE CAN THANK THE CHINESE FOR 3 BIG EPIDEMICS NOW! THE ONE FROM 1890-91, THE FALSELY CAUSED SPANISH INFLUENZA POST WWI AND COVID 19 AS WELL AS THE SARZ SCARE THAT WE IN THE USA ESCAPED FROM! THE JAPANESE ARE A SUPER HYGENIC PEOPLE SO PERHAPS IT WAS THE NATURAL WILL OF THE RIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE THEY RULE CHINA! SHAME THE USA MESSED WITH IT!
ALICE BAILEY AND HER HUSBAND FOSTER BAILEY WERE OUTRIGHT GLOBALISTS AND SECRET SATANISTS! SHE AND BESANT IN THE SPIRIT OF CATS COULDN’T GET ALONG IN THE SAME ORG. BESANT WAS AN ATHEIST AND BOLSHEVIK ORIENTED PERSON WHO CORRECTLY SAW BAILEY AND HER LUCIFERIAN AMERICAN SECTION AS TOO DARK-OCCULT FOR HER ATHEISTS SO THERE WAS A POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN THEM. ALICE BAILEY WAS THE REAL DEAL WHO WAS A FORERUNNER TO MARINA ABRAMOVIC WHO IS THE REALLY REAL EVIL DEAL TODAY AS I BELIEVE, SHE IS A FORM OF SATANIST HIGH PRIESTESS OF THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
Don’t expect this to suddenly cause an outbreak of sanity at the NYT or anywhere else
3 years ago
I BELIEVE BARI WEISS IS ALSO A VICTIM OF ORGANIZED ANTI-SEMITISM AGAINST HER SUPPORTED BY ISLAMIC ADVERTISING PRESSURE! ALSO, THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE WAS IN THE WINGS ENCOURAGING THEIR JIHADI-ISLAMIC SUPPORTERS TO DOX HER UNTIL SHE JUST COULDN’T TAKE IT ANY MORE! GOD BLESS HER! HEY, PAM GELLER, ENCOURAGE HER TO WRITE SOME PIECES FOR YOU! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
NYT a liberal rag for over 30yrs…!
3 years ago
I wouldn’t read the NY Slimes unless I were paid to do so. The only newspaper I’d even consider reading now would be the Epoch Times. The rest of the muslum loving, communist enemedia can get bent for all I care.
