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In his position, and provided I had the support of the management I would have stayed and not let a baseless online smear campaign force me out.
Leaving this way gives credence to those disparaging his character.
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Cancel culture is a cancer. Having everything documented online doesn’t help. People are supposed to learn from mistakes. They are supposed to make them because we all make mistakes. There are mistakes that are considered table stakes for a role or a job and I’m for demotion of those individuals for it, but I don’t like seeing this cancel culture ruin lives. It’s very high school and immature.
Mistakes are not binary, some of them are worse than others.
Messing up the spelling of someone's name is common and a subject of regular jest amongst journalists.
Slightly misquoting someone might be subject to some kind of internal discipline, it will at least lead to a correction being published.
Publishing mostly fiction without the exercise of fact-checking is much less forgivable in a news organisation. Willing credulity is not the standard journalists should be held to.
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Today I’m resigning from The New York Times. Those are not words I ever wanted to write. Growing up, I never even imagined that I would get the chance to live in New York City or to work in media -- let alone at the paper of record. I’m from a tiny town of a thousand people in the middle of the corn fields of Illinois. I paid my way through Christian College working as a groundskeeper, a dishwasher, a roofer, and at…
>But in the meantime, another story emerged online: that my lack of punishment came down to entitlement and male privilege. The current concept of "privilege" whatever its good original intention, has I think turned into a huge toxic mess. I think it is something that you should bring up about yourself, ie "I have these privileges in life", but never something you should bring up about anyone else.
Giving rights to others is not taking rights away from you. It’s not pie.
I love it when the Cancel Culture Mob eats their own. It gives me energy and strength.
Journalists have been the tip of the spear in matters of doxxing and cancellation. Without speaking to the specifics of whether this particular journalist is deserving of cancellation, there is much to be said of the Schadenfreude, here.
This has a very strange format for reading. Is it intentional or is this formatted for mobile devices?
Assuming his claims are correct it seems a pity to resign due to online pressure. In his position, and provided I had the support of the management I would have stayed and not let a baseless online smear campaign force me out. Leaving this way gives credence to those disparaging his character.
I googled - people are attaching their names to this on twitter. It's not anonymous. It's not "I heard he did x".
It's he did X to me.
We'll find out if any of it is true - but I'm going to guess that a lot of it is. Hence, resigning before he can be fired.
https://twitter.com/imontheradio/status/1343598441226792960?... https://twitter.com/brianabreen/status/1341921383354224640
Also, Radiolab doesn't seem to be downplaying this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/note-...