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I've no idea how you decided this was "cancel culture". It's a garden-variety cockup. Mistakes are not binary, some of them are worse than others. Messing up
by jacques_chester 6y ago
I've no idea how you decided this was "cancel culture". It's a garden-variety cockup.
Mistakes are not binary, some of them are worse than others.
Messing up the spelling of someone's name is common and a subject of regular jest amongst journalists.
Slightly misquoting someone might be subject to some kind of internal discipline, it will at least lead to a correction being published.
Publishing mostly fiction without the exercise of fact-checking is much less forgivable in a news organisation. Willing credulity is not the standard journalists should be held to.
- xupybd 6y agoWas he fired for his bad journalism or for his past misconduct? I couldn't tell from the article.
- katbyte 6y agoHe resigned do to social media backlash it appears
- ng12 6y agoCancel culture is what happened after the revelations about the podcast. Some people got angry they felt he wasn't punished enough and turned to cancel culture to punish him instead.
- free_rms 6y agoIt's concerning that that's the lever, though. Break every rule of your profession and publish a bunch of BS? We'll give you another chance. Gave an inappropriate backrub 10 years ago? You're out! He should have been fired for Caliphate and expressly for Caliphate.
- ogre_codes 6y agoLook at the title here. Look at the author of this piece. Do you think a journalist who has no journalistic integrity is going to admit he got fired because he has no journalistic integrity? Easier to get a sympathy by claiming it was about back rubs.
- free_rms 6y agoAbsolutely right, and I should have written that :) That said, seems like the easier narrative for the NYT to go with as well -- they don't have to own up to their editorial failures up the chain that way.
- gabereiser 6y agoagreed
- irateswami 6y agoAgreed, "journalists" should be held to a high standard for the information they disseminate. Have we all forgotten "A Rape on Campus" and the fallout for Rolling Stone?
- sadgrip 6y agoDid you read the article by chance? The author wasn't "cancelled" on account of the misreporting. That was just what put a spotlight on him leading to cancelling him for unrelated actions.
- gabereiser 6y agoA Twitter campaign sounds like cancel culture. There are avenues to address misbehavior. There are ways to report inaccuracies. I’m not defending the man’s mistakes or his podcast. Like I said, there are some things that are table stakes, telling the truth at a news org should definitely be one. His story isn’t unique though about how social media descends on an individual to ruin their lives. He mentioned how the campaign made its way into the NYT via Twitter. All I’m saying is that we are all human, we all make mistakes, we should all be given an opportunity to learn from and grow from those mistakes. Does he need to be publicly visible in NYT’s, probably not considering the history. Could he produce shows where he’s not asked to determine the truth but just report it, possibly. There are levels to mistakes, I hear you, and to make a public post about it on his blog definitively shows he doesn’t exactly know why this is happening to him or he wants to make a big grand stand about it. Doesn’t matter. My statement still stands. People make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes have nothing to do with their jobs and yet, canceled...
- omgwtfbyobbq 6y agoWhat's the difference between a cancel culture Twitter campaign and other Twitter campaigns?
- gabereiser 6y agoI donate money to other Twitter campaigns