Bari Weiss Resigns From the Times,
'A Distant Galaxy’ Far From America
New York Sun,
by
Bari Weiss
Original Article
Posted By: pensom2,
7/14/2020 3:29:29 PM
Following is the text of the letter sent to the publisher of the New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, from Bari Weiss, resigning from her column and editing duties on the paper’s opinion pages. Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 7/14/2020 3:42:39 PM (No. 478255)
I can only hope that at some point this begins to have an impact on journalism.
If another Breitbart pops up, there will be a number of very capable journalists that are available for hire.
Does Bari have a blog? Perhaps she can take a page from Don Surber. Although I must admit I've never read her work.
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The only surprise here is that the NYT ever attempted to make a token hire to try for the appearance of being balanced in their reporting.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ho72 7/14/2020 3:51:45 PM (No. 478264)
It's a good read, thanks for posting.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Californian 7/14/2020 3:56:55 PM (No. 478269)
The NYT stopped having a division between the news and op/ed sections at least 20-30 years ago.
Did she really think she was going to change that?
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The N.Y. Times? Some wag said: I wouldn't use the Times to line the bottom of a bird cage just on the chance that my parakeet can read.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/14/2020 4:05:00 PM (No. 478277)
So being the victim of the 'cancel culture' finally woke her up? Where was her voice after the Tom Cotton editorial fiasco? I'd like to believe she's had a change of heart, but I'd bet she'll be carrying a pitchfork along with the rest of the 'burn the witch' crowd when re-employed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Texasdoc 7/14/2020 4:13:25 PM (No. 478285)
This letter is actually quite good, and would provide some decent educational points if distributed widely to our clueless woke 20-somethings. Unfortunately, most would feel like it invaded their "safe space"...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tennisbum 7/14/2020 4:18:07 PM (No. 478286)
Very good synopsis of all of the media including the Times. Send this to all of the alphabets.....simplify some words and sentences down to the 4th grade level for CNN and MSNBC.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/14/2020 4:30:49 PM (No. 478294)
Thunderdome is a good description for the NYTs. I see this story about Bari Weiss resigning is all over the place, I wonder if many report about this letter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mizzmac 7/14/2020 4:36:35 PM (No. 478296)
Wow. What a fantastic letter. Sadly, it won't matter one whit. The Times is no longer a newspaper....it's an agenda in print.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
altoona 7/14/2020 5:02:37 PM (No. 478310)
Brava, Bari! You have escaped evil and described it well.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hermoine 7/14/2020 5:06:17 PM (No. 478313)
Bravo, Bari! I'll be interested to see where she lands.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/14/2020 5:06:53 PM (No. 478315)
Bari needs to follow the money. If she did, she would not wonder at why the Times - Liberal even decades ago, has descended into depths of journalistic malpractice that would make the old scandal sheets blush.
Its called 'Paid-For Foreign Propaganda' my dear. Too many investors of 'The Paper of Record' have goals and agenda's totally at odds with the idea of American Freedom, or any free discourse of ideas.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 7/14/2020 5:16:05 PM (No. 478323)
She took the job at the NY Slimes to enhance her resume, and to give this birdcage liner a more balanced opinion. The entrenched Marxists at the paper were having none of this balanced BS.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/14/2020 5:25:12 PM (No. 478333)
This woman will be excoriated by the left in 3, 2, 1.
I imagine there will be a plethora of threats and language foul enough to embarrass Lenny Bruce.
She may be hard pressed to find work in her choosen field. The left will not be questioned nor tolerate dissent.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/14/2020 5:56:56 PM (No. 478360)
“There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one...”
That partial sentence is the essence of the left.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/14/2020 5:57:33 PM (No. 478361)
Forgot to add - PDT should give this woman a job. Assistant to Kayleigh perhaps?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ramona 7/14/2020 6:50:14 PM (No. 478413)
She remains a progressive whose first reaction to the Covington boys was to believe that they were all smug Nazis. She's a fan of Occasional Cortex; she criticized Tusli Gabbard and others without accurate information. She has a long, long, long way to go before she understands what "woke" really means and where the truth is.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Stencil 7/14/2020 6:51:29 PM (No. 478415)
www.bariweiss.com
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/14/2020 8:57:36 PM (No. 478484)
Good intentions and strong final letter but it's like barking at the moon when the NYT is unable to change even if it wanted to. The disease has "progressed" too far and the only outcome is death.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 7/14/2020 10:23:56 PM (No. 478554)
NYT, destroying their own.
I love it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/15/2020 1:16:49 AM (No. 478651)
yes, yes, #18
she has steeped in a pool of atrophied braincells, associated only with people of like "mind", learned the verbiage, never read the opposing interpretation of historical events, and so on, and so she with so many others they fit the definition of bigot. The need to know the Truth is a motivation which just never crosses their minds... in part because all along their academic and social way they have only known and accepted only what is familiar.
This is also why (i think), so many of these "types" are so susceptible to the idea of totalitarianism, although they might not use the terminology.
until, something happens. I call it wonderment, They start to wonder about something... Goebbels said that the most dangerous person (to the totalitarian regime) is the one who questions, who doubts.
We have had the enjoyment of getting to "know" via Fox, a number of people who have come out of the Left (not so many out of entertainment, but intellectuals, thinkers, writers). We have listened to them describe ostracization, harassment, and every kind of vituperation. But they haven't backed down. I admire the courage. It isn't easy to be scapegoated or castigated by one's associates, even friends and even family.
Who knows whether or not Weiss's incipient awakening will become truly liberating for her. If so, it will benefit all of us who care about truth, about liberty, about our great Republic.
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Anyone with an independent streak is bullied by the illiberal, hateful leftists at the Slimes. Here's an open letter from a young writer/editor on why she's getting out.