whembly (5f7596) — 12/19/2023 @ 6:57 am
The Times is just a propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
No, that’s the Washington Post. The truth is out there, in the New York Times, which is often not the case in the Washington Post.
There’s a rebellion of some sorts at the New York Times. (against some “activist” members f the newspaper Guild)
Dozens of New York Times NYT -0.48%decrease; red down pointing triangle employees have formed a group to take a stand on journalistic independence as concerns grow that the labor union that represents the Times and other outlets has veered toward advocacy.
The Times faction, which includes high-profile journalists such as Megan Twohey, Julian Barnes and Emily Bazelon, has created what it calls an “independence caucus” within the NewsGuild-CWA, the parent of the Times’s newsroom union that represents some 1,500 people at the publication.
The creation of the new caucus, which is currently led by the Times employees but is open to staffers from rival publications, comes as tensions between the newsroom and the union—which also has advocacy groups among its members—have grown over the past year or so.
Most recently, some Times staffers chafed when the NewsGuild held a virtual meeting during which some members debated the merits of issuing a statement calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. government aid to Israel, a move that they said would compromise their neutrality and put colleagues in war zones at risk….
NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss said the union hadn’t considered issuing such a statement, and that it held the meeting to listen to its hundreds of members who wanted the union to issue a statement, as well as to people who opposed it….
…Schleuss said the union’s members and leaders have issued statements and resolutions going back 90 years, including in 1981, when its convention passed a resolution stating that abortion and contraception “should be a personal matter for a woman to decide.” It reaffirmed that statement last year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Jacob Bernstein, a reporter for the Times’s Styles section, said it was a mistake for the union to even host such a debate without making an effort to have war correspondents in the room, who can speak to the actual safety concerns with the people advocating for or against a statement on a cease-fire. “What does that say about your commitment to discovery, to facts, and to our welfare?” he said in an interview.
…Others said the caucus was necessary.
“I wish we lived at a time where we could let our work speak for ourselves,” Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who has been covering the Gaza conflict, wrote on Slack. “We don’t, and all too often we sit in silence while colleagues in the media (mostly outside the NYT) take overtly political stances…Some of us felt it was time that we spoke up.”
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