Actually, I’m cutting the Times, and the screamin’ wokies who make up its staff, an enormous amount of slack because it’s fairer to say that thinking is forbidden at the Times, rather than my kinder, gentler take. Latest victim of the “no think” movement at the Times is Donald McNeil Jr., booted for daring to…
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Woke and Broke: The New York Times wants to destroy the city’s public school system
In today’s editorial, “Reopen Schools, and Reform Them”, the pathetically “correct” New York Times argues that “Scrapping the high-stakes admission tests for New York’s specialized public high schools is long overdue. They severely disadvantage talented Black and Latino students.” A more accurate head would be “Reopen schools, and then destroy middle class support for them,”…
Fake news! Fake news hot off the press from the New York Times! Supplied to you courtesy of Elliot Ackerman
When is a war not a war? In his recent column for the Gray Lady, bearing the highly dubious title “The Afghan War Is Over. Did Anyone Notice?”, Mr. Ackerman, described by the Times as one of the paper’s “contributing opinion writers”, explains it all for you: Afghanistan in 2009 is not Afghanistan in 2020….
NYT “America COVID-19 Culpa” soft-pedals Northeast Disaster
Yes, Donald Trump is an asshole, as the New York Times reports in its feature article “The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus”, but there’s more to the story than that. Bill de Blasio isn’t so hot either! Near the end of its long “what went wrong” piece/morality tale, the Times acknowledges that the…
When Bari Left the Times
Now that Bari Weiss has left the New York Times (“scorching” resignation letter here), the Times will almost assuredly be both woker and broker—not “broker” in the sense of financially poorer, but intellectually so. The Times is almost guaranteed to be more predictably “correct” in its coverage of the passing scene and—okay, this is going…
Does the New York Times Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?
Well, not to keep you in suspense, but the answer is no. Greg Bensinger, a member of the New York Times editorial board hitherto unknown to me, has blossomed forth with an opinion piece, “Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?”, which, alas, only demonstrates, all too conclusively,1 that it is Mr….
Safety First! For sure!
The leadership of the New York Times has justly received a full measure of ridicule for bowing to “woke” fears that a meretricious, right-wing opinion piece by meretricious, right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton might somehow endanger the lives of black Times staffers, even though, “arguably”, allowing street violence and looting might threaten their lives as well….
Shorter NYT: Bernie sucks!
With the world more or less crashing down around our ears, it’s more than nice of the New York Times to crank out one of those quasi-pissy, sometimes bitchy, behind the scenes political insider reports, “How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders”. As I’ve said, well, many times, I really don’t like Bernie Sanders,…
Bernie versus the Media: An Update
Yesterday I wrote a little piece making fun of Ben Smith, the New York Times’ newly installed in-house media critic, for uncritically endorsing Bernie Sanders’ sweeping (and, in my opinion, banal) denunciation of the “capitalist” media. In my brief beatdown of both Ben and Bernie, I neglected to remark that if Ben wanted to point…
New socialist strategy at the New York Times: We will BORE you! To death!
That seems to be the plan at the “Business” section, no less, of the New York Times, or perhaps it should be the New Woke Times. “What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media” is the latest and greatest from former BuzzFeed dude and now NYT “Media Equation” dude Ben Smith, who loudly champions everybody’s…