Report: NY Times Newsroom in Midst of ‘Rebellion’ Over Coverage of Israel-Hamas War, Trans Issues
“…management has been at odds with factions of the newsroom over union negotiations and coverage of sensitive topics like the transgender community and social justice. “
Over the last several years, the New York Times has been undergoing an “awokening” of sorts, with the deeply flawed, historically illiterate 1619 Project being one of the more notable turning points for their reporters and editors going from being mouthpieces for the activist left to becoming Democrat activists themselves.
It’s a mission that gained momentum at the start of the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, when Times reporters staged what was called an “open revolt” over the now-infamous Tom Cotton op-ed that suggested the best way to quell the rioting was for then-President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
“Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger,” several of them tweeted, followed by a “sickout,” meltdowns, and eventually the forced resignation of their editorial page editor, James Bennet. Nearly three years later, former Times reporter Shawn McCreesh likened the uproar over the op-ed to a “Maoist struggle session.”
Among other things that happened in the aftermath of what essentially was a woke left takeover of the newsroom was another forced resignation. Veteran Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. was pushed out in February 2021 after 150 staffers were triggered over him saying the “n-word” contextually after a student asked him about its usage during a 2019 NYT-sponsored student trip to Peru.
A couple of months later, the Times put out an ad actively seeking a director of opinion strategy, where one of the key responsibilities would be “connecting and ensuring alignment between efforts in Opinion and around the wider newsroom and company.” While not a surprise considering the paper had already been hiring people from “outlets that practiced advocacy journalism,” it was still an eye-opening moment.
In the fall of 2021, we also learned that the paper, according to former Times tech reporter Nellie Bowles, held a damaging Kenosha riots article until after the 2020 presidential election.
Articles related to so-called transgender rights were a different matter, however, as the paper let a few surprisingly fair and balanced pieces slip through on both the news and opinion sides, all of which led to tantrums from the woke chorus. There was also the Times editorial board and their acknowledgment of the problematic nature of cancel culture, further evidence that not all hope was lost.
Here we are today, and the war between the few sane people left at the Times versus Woke Inc. is spilling over in a very public way, with the Wall Street Journal reporting on the “rebellion” currently taking place over the paper’s coverage of transgender and so-called social justice issues, as well as the Israel-Hamas war:
My latest: A leak probe inside the New York Times shows cracks in the culture of one of America’s leading newsrooms https://t.co/IS4iRRJPJQ
— Alexandra Bruell (@alexbruell) April 12, 2024
From the story:
Over the past several weeks, Charlotte Behrendt, a top Times editor in charge of probing workplace issues in the newsroom, has summoned close to 20 employees for interviews to determine whether staffers leaked confidential information related to Gaza war coverage to another media outlet.
It is the latest internal crisis at the Times, where management has been at odds with factions of the newsroom over union negotiations and coverage of sensitive topics like the transgender community and social justice.
Reporting about the Gaza war has been a particular flashpoint, especially over an in-depth article that found Hamas weaponized sexual violence in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Some staffers questioned the reporting behind it and alleged that the suffering of Gazans isn’t getting the same attention. Times leaders in March said they stand by the reporting.
Executive Editor Joe Kahn said that one problem was newer hires “weren’t trained in independent journalism.” The WSJ also reported that Kahn “suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant of dissenting views.”
The NYT is struggling to manage its employees again.
“Newsroom leaders, concerned that some Times journalists are compromising their neutrality and applying ideological purity tests to coverage decisions, are seeking to draw a line.”
Executive Editor Joe Kahn blames colleges: pic.twitter.com/gpJgYFEedp
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 12, 2024
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It’s important that your trans is up to snuff in wartime… 🙂
Just keep the bands adjusted, and the fluid changed at regular intervals, and your trans should have a long and healthy life.
Out here in the country, we just drop the tranny and get another one at the junkyard.
NTT = Gray Lady minus the R because no R’s need apply.
The employees are not the problem at the New York Slimes. The employees are lowlife dirtbag traitors … but they are not the problem.
“March through the institutions” means once captured, they never give them up. They only hire fellow-travelers.
“The WSJ also reported that Kahn “suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant of dissenting views.”
I smell a fellow traveler whose Clown World visa was never properly stamped.
Your mistaken, there is no NYT newsroom…
That ended a long time ago…
If they reported the truth there wouldn’t be any problems.
I remember (“Three Days of the Condor” 1975) when leaking stuff to the NYT was the way to defeat the deep state.
Nah, it was always about defeating the anti globalist
Watergate was a deep state operation cover-up. Nixon was a patsy.
Nixon’s fate was sealed when he began blabbing to confidantes in the Oval Office that he knew who had killed JFK.
It was a way to defeat conservatives and attack the foundation of the USA.
“Articles related to so-called transgender rights were a different matter, however, as the paper let a few surprisingly fair and balanced pieces slip through on both the news and opinion sides, all of which led to tantrums from the woke chorus.”
Anything that does less than take the demands they have right at this moment and immediately acquiesce to every single one will result in anything from a tantrum to a mass shooting… because that’s who these people are.
Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses
“Cass’ research instead reveals that children who think they are transgender disproportionately have mental health issues stemming from a difficult family situation or domestic abuse. They are also more likely to be neurodiverse and have a co-morbid autism spectrum disorder…”
I have sciatica and peripheral neuropathy. Does that make me “neurodiverse”?
For the sciatica, do not hesitate to try deep tissue massage (elbow point) on the sciatic nerve/piriformis muscle crossover, high on the side of your butt. (The location is easy to find — it hurts like a recently extracted tooth.)
Developed crippling sciatica seven years ago that lasted several months, complete with cane; the BS exercises the therapists prescribed did zero. One genius tried the elbow massage, and half the pain was gone the next day. Did it again at my therapy session two days later, and it was gone, like magic. Ever since, I get roughly annual flareups — DW applies her elbow for 60 seconds on one or two days, and I’m all set again. Spa jet stimulation is also effective to clear up remnant inflammation.
I am vocal about this because it is the closest thing to an extremely reliable and nearly immediate pain-relief cure that I have ever experienced in my life.
The neuropathy is a bitch. Now that I can finally walk barefoot without flinching, I shouldn’t.
Why is this a ‘landmark study’?
How stupid does the world have to be that the entirety of the psychological profession doesn’t understand that dysphoria and dismorphia aren’t diagnoses, they’re symptoms.
Of severe alienation. Alienation is what needs to be treated–not ‘brain in wrong body’
Long ago and far away, I read Spiderman comic books, when Peter Parker was a freelance photographer and J Jonah Jameson was the editor.
I thought J Jonah Jameson was a fictional, comic relief character.
But he was based on reality, and now it’s like his idiot grandnephew has taken over for him. The New York Times was once in the lobby of every hotel. Now it’s the WSJ and USA Today.
The Daily Bugle isn’t the Times, it’s a combination of the Daily News and the NY Post
Woke Zombies Breach Newsroom Door.
The times has always been anti semitic so I hold out no hope there. But the trans issue may finally take them down, given their reporting is so far removed from reality at this point and the massive wake up call most of the world is getting to how deep the scandal is behind the so called “gender affirming care” business and the medicalization of again so called “trans youth.” They are now so far off the target not just of the majority of people and common sense but also their leftist peers in Europe. What I don’t understand is how the trans movement took over BLM , but I guess smarter people than me saw that coming.
Not always. Under A.M. Rosenthal it wasn’t antisemitic. But he’s long gone.
Put wholly-trans units on the front lines with embedded NYT reporters.
And don’t forget the video.
The New York Times is as much a newspaper as I am a woman.
Oh, wait…
That’s not the airtight comparison that it used to be.
As the cohort of intolerant, woke/leftists enter the workforce they are causing massive problems. These folks have been indoctrinated by the educational system for more than 1.5 decades to view any dissent from their viewpoint as harmful at best and evil at worst. These are folks whose generation believes speech is violence and demands ‘trigger warnings’ and censorship/suppression of public social media posts they disagree with. Not exactly the open minded, follow the facts, report the facts without bias types we would want in media.
What other business in America would management be dictated to by labor in this manner? Would any engineering or architectural firm allow their employees to refuse to work on specific projects for political reasons? It’s insane.
Education, where it’s not even the labor force that dictates to management, it’s the students.
I have sciatica and peripheral neuropathy. Does that make me “neurodiverse”?
Check your nervy privilege!
The NYT newsroom is revolting. And they stink on ice.
I’ll be here all week…
Leftists in circular firing squad at NYT? The bolsheviks taking out the menshiviks?
I’m all for them shiviking each other.