Resignation

Post by benzible » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

hilbertseries wrote: post #5

> And, of course, in 2018 I helped create and produce the most ambitious project I’ve ever worked on: Caliphate. > While I remain proud of our team and what we were able to accomplish with Caliphate, getting any aspect of any story wrong, by any degree, is a journalist’s worst nightmare. After Caliphate was corrected, in print and in audio, peers of mine in the audio industry, from outside of The Times, began to rais…

Post by ChuckMcM » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

benzible wrote: post #21

hilbertseries wrote: post #5

> And, of course, in 2018 I helped create and produce the most ambitious project I’ve ever worked on: Caliphate. > While I remain proud of our team and what we were able to accomplish with Caliphate, getting any aspect of any story wrong, by any degree, is a journalist’s worst nightmare. After Caliphate was corrected, in print and in audio, peers of mine in the audio industry, from outside of The Times, began to rais…

Yes, this is well worth reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-t... An excerpt: > The assignment, Mr. Flood recalled thinking, was both hopeless and quite strange in its specificity [...] Ms. Callimachi was singularly focused. “She only wanted things that very narrowly supported this kid in Canada’s wild stories,” he told me in a phone interview. > Mr. Flood didn’t know it at the time, bu…

Post by ng12 » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #15

gabereiser wrote: post #4

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.

I've no idea how you decided this was "cancel culture". It's a garden-variety cockup. 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…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #4

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.

Post by Igelau » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

iorrus wrote: post #11

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.