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Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the NYT is probably the best place to start https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignat

Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the NYT is probably the best place to start https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter Matt Taibbi has a good article on this too https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i... Glenn Greenwald talks about this on his Substack a lot, too, and the malpractice of the larger media as a whole. This recent and highly topical Twitter thread is one of many examples. https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1383767882668986376 https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/138376788266898...

HWR_14 5y ago
Bari Weiss was an opinion writer. Maybe this explains Fox News's success, but are you unable to tell the difference between opinion and news? But yes, when an opinion writer has unpopular opinions, they are often let go.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  ::sets up easily beatable strawman, ignores everything else:: “See! I won!” Quote from article: “There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name.” Yeah that’s not threatening at all. Totally professional.
- berniemadoff99 5y ago
  news is ultimately someone's opinion that something is 'news' in the first place. i went to mcdonalds earlier - is that news? i guarantee you vice.com could come up with some kind of news story about bored 30-somethings with nothing better to do during the pandemic than go to mcdonalds as a way to take a break from the internet. does that make it news though, just because a news site says its news? something can be news somewhere [0], and not news somewhere else [1]. [0] https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden... [1] https://i.imgur.com/OQYuZve.png https://i.imgur.com/OQYuZve.png
  - HWR_14 5y ago
    News is news wherever it is. No one credible talked about the non-story you mentioned. Trend stories (like you talked about with McDonald's) are considered "soft news" and is filler. Meanwhile, the person we are talking about was published on the editorial page. That's not "discretion about what news to publish". That is literally "this is opinion only"

HWR_14 5y ago

Bari Weiss was an opinion writer. Maybe this explains Fox News's success, but are you unable to tell the difference between opinion and news? But yes, when an opinion writer has unpopular opinions, they are often let go.

imwillofficial 5y ago
::sets up easily beatable strawman, ignores everything else:: “See! I won!” Quote from article: “There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name.” Yeah that’s not threatening at all. Totally professional.
berniemadoff99 5y ago
news is ultimately someone's opinion that something is 'news' in the first place. i went to mcdonalds earlier - is that news? i guarantee you vice.com could come up with some kind of news story about bored 30-somethings with nothing better to do during the pandemic than go to mcdonalds as a way to take a break from the internet. does that make it news though, just because a news site says its news? something can be news somewhere [0], and not news somewhere else [1]. [0] https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden... [1] https://i.imgur.com/OQYuZve.png https://i.imgur.com/OQYuZve.png
- HWR_14 5y ago
  News is news wherever it is. No one credible talked about the non-story you mentioned. Trend stories (like you talked about with McDonald's) are considered "soft news" and is filler. Meanwhile, the person we are talking about was published on the editorial page. That's not "discretion about what news to publish". That is literally "this is opinion only"