It was not a nice week for the American left last week. The curtain was pulled back on two of its most important captive institutions, revealing sanctimonious, self-serving ideologues.
The strike by 1,100 New York Times newsroom employees in Manhattan lasted only one day, but that was enough time to comprehend why the paper has gone astray. Numerous reporters and editors, supporters of socialist-like tax-and-spending policies, wore red for the event and advocated reader solidarity.
Unknown whether they referred to one another as comrade.
Already the Gray Lady has shifted so far to the left that she is barely recognizable to generations of readers, but to the newspaper’s radical employees, it is merely another racist tabloid. According to reports, black employees as a group score poorly on supervisors’ evaluations, and a union head argued this was due to prejudice.
Susan DeCarava, head of the NewsGuild of New York, told Fox News, “It turns out that they are weighted against employees of color at The New York Times.” “For instance, no black New York Times employee has ever achieved the top possible rating. Nikole Hannah-Jones is in our unit. Tell me how she is not performing work of this caliber.”
DeCarava’s use of Hannah-Jones is illuminating, albeit not in the manner she intended. Hannah-Jones, the guru of the ahistorical 1619 Project, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her piece packed with errors, and the Times is promoting its bogus claims in schools.
According to union leaders, the Times discriminates against its minority employees.
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However, it appears that her editors have their own issues with Hannah-work. Jones’s Now they inform us.
The strikers assert that the Times is not only racist, but also stingy, citing a meager median newsroom income of $120,000. That is roughly double the national average.
Senator Bernie Sanders, a socialist with three residences, understands the strikers’ plight. “The New York Times staff is fighting for a livable wage and fair compensation, which is not so radical since the corporation just approved $150 million in stock buybacks for its shareholders,” he added in a statement. He added ominously, “It is well past time in this nation to investigate new means of empowering media workers to effectively collectively negotiate with huge enterprises such as The New York Times.”
In actuality, the employees’ union and the firm are negotiating, but the left’s demands are never met unless the system is shattered. It’s encouraging to see that, at least at the Times, they’re finally eating their own dog food.
Furthermore, there is a great deal of irony in the union’s use of inflation and the cost of living in the New York area to justify demands for substantial wage increases. It did not occur to the strikers that their newspaper endorsed Joe Biden and all of the region’s big-spending, high-taxing Democratic governors – the very individuals who are mostly responsible for skyrocketing living costs.
Perhaps the Times staff could move to Florida to reduce their taxes, as so many New Yorkers have done.
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, is brazenly admitting how workers discreetly restricted the reach of conservative users, despite publicly and repeatedly denying doing so, even before Congress.
“Teams of Twitter employees construct blacklists, block unpopular messages from trending, and intentionally limit the visibility of entire accounts,” independent journalist Bari Weiss reported after gaining an insider’s perspective on the operation.
She stated that conservatives like as talk show presenter Dan Bongino, Stanford University anti-COVID-lockdown advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and activist Charlie Kirk were among those targeted by Twitter for censorship.
The actions were part of a comprehensive system of “visibility filtering” that employed a sequence of innocuous words to conceal the intent and impact. For instance, Weiss reports that Bhattacharya was placed on a “Trends Blacklist” that blocked his tweets from trending.
Weiss wrote that Bongino’s account was discreetly blocked with a “Search Blacklist,” while Kirk’s account received “Do Not Amplify” directives. Matt Taibbi, another journalist with Musk’s approval, then reported on the internal conversations that led to Donald Trump’s eventual exclusion from the site.
Uncertain is the extent to which FBI agents took an ongoing involvement in all of these choices. We know that spies notified the major social media sites about The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop leaks in 2020 on the false premise that they could contain hacked content or Russian misinformation, but it is unclear whether agents played a similar role in limiting conservative Twitter users.
The Times’ strike and the Twitter releases demonstrate how a small number of spoiled, intolerant ideologues have distorted the political and cultural conversation in the United States.
Learn about Twitter’s censoring of The Post’s laptop report about Hunter Biden.
Even allowing for the fact that great social movements almost often begin with tiny groups of fanatics, it is astounding how far to the left the left has managed to take America in such a short period of time. From the 1619 Project to interminable COVID lockdowns to the campaign for transgender advocacy in kindergarten schools, these extremists have used the government, Big Media, and Big Tech to suppress contradictory evidence and perspectives.
And they have not yet ceased. In a purportedly objective piece about Musk’s Twitter announcements published in the Saturday edition of The New York Times, his “critics” (translation: left-wing Democrats) fretted that he would make the social network more accessible to right-wing misinformation.
Perhaps unknowingly, the author’s structure is taken directly from Orwell’s “1984.” The Times and its allies consider facts to be right-wing misinformation while left-wing propaganda is the truth.
This is their identity.
Legislators in New York have begun to explore fare increases for public transportation.
Paul Martinka Tax and spend again
According to many New Yorkers, both the city and the state are at a critical juncture. There is a sense that 2023 could be a make-or-break year, as problems are multiplying faster than solutions.
Yet, in Albany, the all-Democratic government seems frozen in time, as if it were still the days of wine and roses. In the weeks following the election, the business-as-usual attitude included discussions of transit fare rises and Thruway toll increases.
With a Manhattan congestion charge already on the table, the legislature could not resist the temptation to dip its nose into this new source of revenue. Naturally, it will enhance its own salary.
Also naturally, Governor Hochul supports it.
Before you ask, the answer is no, they have no shame.
A ‘Intel’ slip is evident
John Capano’s query on the 51 former intelligence officers who warned in 2020 that the critical emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation is an excellent one. Capano adds, “Now that the emails have been validated and Joe Biden is in power, you would think these people would be more frightened. Why aren’t they concerned that Biden has been compromised?”
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