Perspectives; Bari Weiss

[CelticWarlord]

Bari Weiss, born in 1984, announced her resignation from the NY Times as Opinion Editor. Excerpts from her letter appear below. A link to the full document follows. Her letter is a sad statement on modern journalism.
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"Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor… 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."

"Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery."

"But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher"

"If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets. "

"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."

"standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits. It puts a target on your back."

"“An independent press is not a liberal ideal or a progressive ideal or a democratic ideal. It’s an American ideal,” you said a few years ago. I couldn’t agree more. "

Resignation Letter — BARI WEISS

www.bariweiss.com

 

[Irishmom2]

Ain’t it the truth…

 

[Joegrane]

Thank you for the post about Bari Weiss. I admire her for speaking out.

My brother-in-law–a good Catholic-- and I were having a similar discussion yesterday. It is so hard to get good information. You have to get it from more than one source and try to cobble together what seems to be most likely. But who has time for all of that?

Bari seems to be speaking mostly about socio-political matters. You might think it is easier to get good information about science and medicine during a pandemic. However that is not so!

We have a discussion about the spin and deception in medical studies and COVID-19 related reporting.

Article: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-safe-effective-outpatient-treatment-plan-for-covid-19-exists-why-arent-more-doctors-using-it Moral Theology

I came across an article at naturalnews.com similar to the article by Dr Fitzgibbons at LifeSiteNews. It actually mentions the Fitzgibbons article. This excerpt stands out. In the Henry Ford study, researchers found that hydroxychloroquine combined with the antibiotic drug azithromycin resulted in a 50 percent reduction in deaths among hospitalized Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. After day one of the treatment, a whopping 82 percent of patients began to recover. And after day two, t…

For example, the Lancet medical journal posted a fraudulent study about hydroxychloroquine(HCQ). They retracted it after more than 100 scientists around the world cosigned a letter complaining. We are not talking about an accidental error, but a fake study.
A doctor who actually did an encouraging study with over 3,000 patients treated with HCQ said his study was rejected by the Lancet in the same week that they accepted the fake study.

https://covexit.com/ihu-marseille-research-on-3737-covid-19-patients-published/

This article by Dr Mercola compares CNN’s reporting about vitamin D and COVID-19 with several studies and comments by a Harvard professor.

“Two Moderna executives cashed in $25 million when stock prices rose immediately following the announcement that its COVID-19 phase 1 trial showed promising results
Stock dropped within days, as critics pointed out the results were likely misrepresented and actually quite alarming…”
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/23/moderna-vaccine-coronavirus.aspx

As we try to reevangelize the culture these are examples we can cite. In a Christian culture people are taught to love one’s neighbor and that honesty is the best policy.

 

[Nepperhan]

And, at the Wall Street Journal:

" In a rare display of internal strife, the opinion department of The Wall Street Journal openly antagonized the paper’s news staff Thursday by publishing a tersely worded note to readers just days after it found itself on the receiving end of a sharply worded critique signed by hundreds of newsroom employees.

Turmoil inside the buttoned-up newsroom had been brewing for more than a month before the clash spilled into the view of the paper’s readership.

The latest skirmish started Tuesday, when nearly 300 of The Journal’s news staff members sent a letter to the paper’s publisher, Almar Latour, condemning the opinion desk’s “lack of fact-checking and transparency.”

The letter cited several examples of essays published by the opinion section, which is operated separately from the newsroom, that included factual errors, among them a June 16 article by Vice President Mike Pence. The essay, with the headline “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave,’ was ultimately corrected. The letter highlighted how the newsroom’s own reporting more than a week earlier was at odds with Mr. Pence’s claims. In a rare display of internal strife, the opinion department of The Wall Street Journal openly antagonized the paper’s news staff Thursday by publishing a tersely worded[note to readers just days after it found itself on the receiving end of a sharply worded critique signed by hundreds of newsroom employees.

Turmoil inside the buttoned-up newsroom had been brewing for more than a month before the clash spilled into the view of the paper’s readership.

The latest skirmish started Tuesday, when nearly 300 of The Journal’s news staff members sent a letter to the paper’s publisher, Almar Latour, condemning the opinion desk’s “lack of fact-checking and transparency.”

The letter cited several examples of essays published by the opinion section, which is operated separately from the newsroom, that included factual errors, among them a June 16 article by Vice President Mike Pence. The essay, with the headline “[There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave,’ was ultimately corrected. The letter highlighted how the newsroom’s own reporting more than a week earlier was at odds with Mr. Pence’s claims…

At The Journal, a group identifying itself as “members of the WSJ newsroom” said in a June 23 letter to the editor in chief, Matt Murray, that the paper must “encourage more muscular reporting about race and social inequities,” and called for fundamental changes in its news coverage.

Two weeks earlier, more than 150 newsroom employees sent a letter to Journal leaders saying that the paper’s coverage of race was “problematic” and that its staff was not diverse enough."

At Wall Street Journal, News Staff and Opinion Side Clash (Published 2020)

A heated dispute between the newsroom and the opinion section of one of the country’s most respected news organizations has spilled into public view.

www.nytimes.com