[NYPO] Bari Weiss resigns from New York Times, slams Twitter as being their ‘ultimate editor’

this is for the New-York-Times-Bias Deniers.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/bari-weiss-resigns-from-new-york-times-citing-illiberal-environment/

Bari Weiss resigns from New York Times, slams Twitter as being their ‘ultimate editor’
By Variety

July 14, 2020 | 12:31pm

Bari Weiss, a staff writer and editor for the New York Times’ increasingly heated Opinion section, is leaving her job, she announced in a letter to the publisher.

“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” Weiss said in a note addressed to A.G. Sulzberger that was posted on her personal site Tuesday. “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. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”

She described an “illiberal environment” at the newspaper, and alleged her work “made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.”

Weiss has gained fame for tilting at the excesses of progressive culture since joining the Times in 2017. But her work and social-media activity have drawn criticism, even as they facilitated appearances on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” and captured media attention, and she has been described as a provocateur. She was one of dozens of media figures who recently signed an open letter published by Harper’s in which the signatories worried about the free exchange of ideas in American society as liberals and conservatives become increasingly tribal.

“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,” said Kathleen Kingsbury, acting editorial page editor, The New York Times, in a statement. “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 Washington Post is treating this as a genuine story . . . unlike SOME people here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/07/14/bari-weiss-resigns-new-york-times/

Bari Weiss resigns from New York Times, says ‘Twitter has become its ultimate editor’

By
Elahe Izadi and
Jeremy Barr
July 14, 2020 at 12:18 p.m. EDT

New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss, who attracted considerable controversy both internally and externally, resigned from the newspaper this week, the company confirmed Tuesday.

In a lengthy note about her Monday departure, Weiss criticized the Times for caving to the whims of critics on Twitter and for not standing up for her after she said she was “bullied” by Times staffers.

“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,” she wrote. “Nowadays, standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits. It puts a target on your back.”

Weiss came to the Times in 2017 from the Wall Street Journal as part of former opinions editor James Bennet’s vision to show the “many shades of conservatism and many shades of liberalism." But she quickly became a lighting rod for both her social-media posts and her published writings, including a large feature on the “intellectual dark web” — a collection of media personalities and thinkers whom she described as “locked out of legacy outlets” — and an essay criticizing college protest movements, in which she cited a hoax Twitter account. She blamed a far-left “mob" for attacking her following several errors she made.

”Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor," Weiss wrote in her resignation letter. “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”

During her tenure at the Times, Weiss became a social media lightning rod and provocateur. She attempted to position herself as a reasonable liberal concerned that far-left critiques stifled free speech. She wrote about antisemitism and the Women’s March, praised cultural appropriation and warned of the limits of #MeToo in a widely-discussed column about Aziz Ansari, which inspired a “Saturday Night Live” sketch.

Her critics have accused her of hypocrisy given her own history as a campus activist who took aim at professors, and have argued that her complaints about “cancel culture” fell flat since her platform at the Times meant she was far from silenced.

In her resignation latter, Weiss wrote “my forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views,” some of whom, she said, had called her “a Nazi and a racist.”

“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” she wrote. “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."

In a statement Tuesday, acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingbury said, “We appreciate the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion."

Kingsbury assumed the role previously occupied by Bennet, who resigned last month after staffers revolted against the paper for its decision to publish a controversial op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that argued for military incursion into U.S. cities racked by protests against police violence. Many staffers argued that it was dangerous to give Cotton’s argument the platform of the Times’s opinion page, and that it would put black people in particular danger. They also noted Cotton included claims debunked by the Times’s own reporting.

The internal drama played out on social media, and many staffers took exception with Weiss’s characterization of it as a “civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals," noting that the criticism came from a range of Times employees.



Bennet and publisher A.G. Sulzberger initially defended the decision to publish the essay as part of the section’s mission to present a range of opinions. But following the considerable outcry among staffers, the newspaper abruptly announced the Cotton op-ed had gone through "a rushed editorial process” and “did not meet our standards.”

On Tuesday, Kingsbury said she is "personally committed to ensuring that The Times continues to publish voices, experiences and viewpoints from across the political spectrum in the Opinion report. 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.”

This story has been updated.


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wiki "In 2019, The Jerusalem Post listed Weiss as one of the world's 50 most influential Jews.[18]"