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Srinivasan: America is a press-controlled state where media overpowers politicians
“By the reason I put NYT there, as opposed to CCP is NYT is upstream of the state. You know, that's to say a journalist A corporate journalist can get a politician fired, but not vice versa. It's not fully deterministic. You know, they can write a negative arti…”
Weiss: Superficial racial diversity from elite schools fails to create ideological diversity
“If you really want to strive for diversity in the New York Times, I'm sorry, but getting people of different skin colors who all went to the same four boarding schools and universities is not genuine. They all think the same thing.”
Weiss: Younger NYT staff reject objectivity in favor of moral clarity
“Inside, like, let me just give you the example of the New York times inside the New York times, the vast majority of people, especially let's say the older generation, 40 and up believed in the old school values of journalism, you know, striving for objectivit…”
Meyer: No one in The New York Times newsroom votes for the political right
“The Times wants to pretend that, you know, anyone thinks that people in their newsroom are voting for the right, and everyone knows that they're not. Everyone knows that there's no chance that they are.”
Urban: The New York Times explicitly became a political movement's arm
“That's a moment of truth where the New York Times basically says, you know, the paper of record, they cross that out, and they say, we now are an arm of this political movement.”
Urban: 62% of Americans supported Tom Cotton's military deployment op-ed
“During the George Floyd riots, Tom Cotton writes, they'll send in the troops, which 62% of Americans agreed with it. In that moment.”