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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The story of Bari Weiss leaving the times is just shocking, after all she did for them. She discovered people like Monica Lewinsky and Randall Kennedy! But then, management listened more to public opinion than to her!!! And, after she publicly criticized her colleagues and made public what they said in private, and only changed what they said a little when she broadcast it in public (well, a little here and there and a bit more just to make sure it was understood what she thought they meant even if they didn't say it), they had the temerity, the absolute fucking anti-semitic temerity, to criticize her!!!!
Sure, at least according to her resignation letter, no one told her to leave, but it was clear they didn't appropriately value her!!!!! After all, without her, the NY Times would have never heard of Monica Lewinsky!!!!! So she resigned with great visibility, because everyone should always look at what she does (did I mention that she is the one who introduced the NY Times to Monica Fucking Lewinsky!), and will now begrudgingly go sell her book and show up for highly paid sessions where she can talk about her grievances and remind everyone how important she is.
It's all there in her resignation letter, which she is putting out on the internet because the awful twitter people who tell the NY Times Opinion Page what to do (which was, after all, her job) need to make her trend!!!!!
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You’ve made no point here. If we compare the heft of her letter to the weak and incoherent attack you’ve made upon it, the only conclusion to be reached is you were better off not commenting on her.
The argument that these reporters who are fired or pushed out by left wing nuts are actually fired for being lousy reporters does not apply in most instances. It’s a dodge - a way for the left to defend itself without defending itself, without reaching the merits on which it would lose. And it’s particularly lacking in Weiss’s case. She was quite successful, controversial, and brought a lot of eyeballs to the Times. Just as Taibbi is single handedly keeping Rolling Stone’s political coverage section afloat.
The Times didn’t want her to leave. She’s exactly the kind of smart provocateur media outlets desire. Unfortunately, the orthodox reporters around were not so comfortable in having their “religion” criticized by heretics like her.
She’ll do well, it’s true. We should not feel badly for her and she does not ask us to do so. Her letter is “fuck off,” not “woe is me.”
We should feel badly for the Times.
