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In case you were under the impression that New York Times employees should be held in higher regard than the average American newspaper, this story should make you think again.
They are not simply supplied by left-wing intelligentsia. According to this report from former editor Adam Rubenstein, they appear to be full of crazy people fresh out of college.
Rubenstein wrote an article for The Atlantic that began with a memory of one of his first days working for the “Grey Lady,” and it’s beyond hilarious.
During orientation, he had to tell the group about his favorite sandwich. Not wanting to appear snobbish, she decided not to choose more expensive dishes and instead “blurted out, ‘Chick-fil-A’s spicy chicken sandwich.'”
And that’s when the hilarity broke out.
The HR representative leading the orientation scolded me, “We don’t do that here. They hate gay people.” People began snapping their fingers in cheer. I hadn’t thought about the fact that Chick-fil-A was transgressive in liberal circles because of its president’s opposition to gay marriage. “Not politics, chicken,” I said immediately, but it was too late. I sat down, ashamed.
– Adam Rubenstein, The Atlantic
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The New York Times hates Chick-Fil-A
The fact that an orientation at the New York Times is basically a scene out of West Side Story is something to behold. Snapping your fingers in acclamation?
Unreal. Funny, if not really, really sad and pathetic.
X CEO Elon Musk couldn’t help but laugh at the story, just like all of us who saw Rubenstein’s report.
Do they “snap their fingers” to show disapproval? she wrote, adding a laughing while she cries emoji.
The absurdity of it all almost takes away from an even more serious charge that Rubenstein makes against the New York Times.
The newspaper, it claims, didn’t want to give credence to the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election for fear it could hurt Democrats.
“Was it really ‘baseless,’ as the paper kept saying? At the time, this was confirmed, however unusually, by Rudy Giuliani,” Rubenstein wrote.
“Many of my colleagues were clearly concerned that giving credence to the laptop story could damage the electoral prospects of Joe Biden and the Democrats,” he added. “But starting from a place of political party and evaluating how a particular story might affect an election is not journalism.”
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The timing got in the way of the election
The New York Times would spend many, many months spreading a conspiracy theory that the Hunter Biden story was “misinformation,” only ambiguously admitting that the laptop was real in March 2022.
Here we have a former editor admitting that the paper influenced its coverage to effect the presidential election. Interference.
Rubenstein’s name may stand out to readers. He, along with opinion editor James Bennet, was forced to resign from the New York Times for daring to publish an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) arguing that major cities needed National Guard activity to crack down the situation out of control. racial riots.
Cotton at the time (R-AR) wrote that an “overwhelming show of force” was needed to “disperse, detain, and ultimately deter lawbreakers” who used George Floyd’s murder as an excuse for violence.
Democrats were furious that their supporters were being targeted.
It’s hard to decide what’s the most embarrassing aspect of the New York Times staff since Rubenstein’s article. Fire editors for allowing opposing views? Help manipulate elections with disinformation?
Or snap your fingers in disgust at people enjoying a sandwich at Chick-fil-a?
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