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Bari Weiss
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Bari Weiss writes BARI WEISS, a personal blog at bariweiss.com about politics and culture. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Resignation Letter”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the New York Times, which describes her departure and the newspaper's internal culture. Commenters use it as the starting point for arguments about NYT editorial bias.
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Bari Weiss is a staff writer and editor for the Opinion section of The New York Times.
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- Resignation Letter17 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2020-07-14
What Hacker News says?
If you haven't read Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the NYT, I would recommend it: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter > But I can no longer do the work that you brought me here to do—the work that Adolph Ochs described in that famous 1896 statement: “to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent d…
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on “Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it”Submitted Resignation Letter as a story · 654 points
HN discussionPG's essay that article is talking about: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html (disclosure: I thought it was good). The current affairs article was extremely tedious, whatever good point they might have made was hurt by its self-assured hostile tone and personal attacks (basically an example of the kind of thing PG's essay was talking about). There are a few essays that get into the weeds and give more explicit exa…
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on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”This was recently: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-July-2020-Twitter-spat-bet... Also this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-... Also: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter I think there are some great New York Times writers (Li Yuan’s articles I always like), but there’s a lot of seriously bad writing and writers. It’s not exclusive to NYT either, Vox makes some great stuff - but…
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on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”I would recommend reading Bari Weiss' resignation letter from the New York Times. They have really stepped up their efforts to mislead people https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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on “How to Mislead with Facts”First, the students were in high school, not college. This story is all about details. Second, what sexist language, exactly? What did he actually say? We certainly can't trust the mere accusation from a source like The Daily Beast. And again, this story is all about details. Third, it's easy to believe the NYT overreacted here given the evidence from other incidents. For example: James Bennet, the editorial page ed…
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on “Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'”You should read more. Everything fallingknife said is backed up by statements from insiders. As one wrote: > 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. ... > But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challengin…
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on “Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming”Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Seeing how as Weiss was forced out of her position at the NYT [1] by 'woke progressives' she has made it her goal to expose the destructive effects this ideology has with the clear intent of putting a stop to it. Those who attempt to gain power and influence by denouncing others for thoughtcrime [2] shall be exposed and denounced themselves. The sooner this happens…
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on “Will I Ever See the $36MM Oberlin College Owes Me?”Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the NYT is probably the best place to start 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-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. ht…
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on “The Slander Industry”NYT have been losing journalists too. The journos turned on their own - so much for freedom of speech. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter To be fair, NYT's motto was ( probably still is ) "All the News that's fit to Print" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-16918787 Reading that resignation letter I wonder who gets to decide if the TRUTH is 'Fit to Print'.
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on ““Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers”Was that before or after this: > My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. 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. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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on “Information overload helps fake news spread”I think one of the root causes of this is the increasingly partisan behavior of the "mainstream" media. People are sick of having their opinions dictated to them, they're sick of media outlets that all push the same narratives 24/7 (Russiagate, anyone?), and they're desperately searching for any outlet that will objectively report "all the news that's fit to print" (as the NY Times likes to say). In the past year we…
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on “Information overload helps fake news spread”I'd argue that it's worse news than it appears. Bari Weiss left for the same reason Krugman did (you can make more money for less hassle with a Substack) even though her politics were the opposite and she didn't have as good a gig as Krugman did. Since the NYT had a web site everybody there knows they live and die based on the usage stats, and the usage stats says that people would rather read Krugman, Klein, Brooks…
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on “Departing the New York Times”https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int... https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter And not directly related, but relevant overall: https://odysee.com/@AlisonMorrow:6/death-of-journalism-by-mo...
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on “Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little”It may be true that there was a pull factor, but your comment appears to be trying to let the NYT staff off the hook for what would be considered abusive behavior in any other circumstance. Reference, straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter Quote: > My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have cal…
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on “Substack is laying off 14% of its staff”Bari Weiss writes about a general set of issues she saw: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter I’m not certain this website isn’t itself interesting for plenty of other reasons, though.
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on “Block The New York Times”For added context about the shift from the The Paper of Record to The Paper of Rags, read Barry Weiss' resignation letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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on “The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues”You are right. The NYT has stopped being an impartial source of information. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter PS: I am not a Facebook employee, and I don’t use their services. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t use information provided by the NYT to make a case against a direct competitor.
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on “More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?”Bari Weiss' resignation letter is a good indication of what happened to the NYT in the last decade: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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on “The desperation of NYTimes”NYT is in the class of elite professional level bias and they certainly are not without their issues. This isn't to say they are more biased than other notable publications, but that they all have this quality and use professional language to sound authoritative on subject matters all while they still have the effect of changing opinion or manipulation of information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controvers…
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on “AI Propaganda Will Be Effective and Easily Accessible”
