A column highly critical of
New York Times editor-in-chief Dean Baquet by opinion columnist Bret Stephens was axed by Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of the
Times’ opinion section earlier this week. The column was about the unfairness Stephens perceived in firing long-time
Times reporter Don McNeil for his use of a racial slur answering a question while chaperoning a group of students on a trip to Peru.
One of the students asked McNeil if one of her friends should have been disciplined for making a video a few years ago that featured the use of the “n” word.
“To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil explained.
Two weeks after news broke of a star reporter’s use of the n-word, Times journalists are openly arguing over the newspaper’s relationship with Black employees.
Don McNeil, a top
Daily Beastreport about allegations that he used a racial slur while on a
Times-sponsored student trip in 2019. After the
Beast report, McNeil admitted to using the n-word in a descriptive context.
Baquet initially told
Times staffers that McNeil was subject to an investigation at the time, and it was determined that McNeil’s intentions were not “hateful or malicious.” Days later, after an internal backlash from
Times staffers and demand for a renewed investigation, McNeil left the
Times, and Baquet told staffers in a note that the
Times would not tolerate racist language, “regardless of intent.”
Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones attends The 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on May 20, 2016 in New York City. (Getty Images)
Hannah-Jones was apparently aware that she had posted Sibarium s phone number to her more than 518,000 followers, and even left up it up for more than a day before deleting it. @aaronsibarium is apparently trying to scour Black NYT employees Twitter accounts to find them using the N-word in response to Don McNeil s resignation, which is asinine on its face but also, homie, I don t use the N-word causually [sic] so this is all he came up with. Keep trying tho, she had written.
Don McNeil of The New York Times has been one of my trusted sources on COVID. His long conversations with Michael Barbaro on "The Daily" have been reassuring while at the same time never minimizing the dangers posed by the pandemic. Now he's gone over a 2019 incident in which he used racially offensive language…
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Trajectory as far as success goes. to don mcneil, the reporter in question, sent the email you refer to and let s read part of it. before i do, one of the things they have against the publisher is that he tends to take a lot of international jaunts. i won t speculate why but apparently they re business trips. people on the web are speculating. he takes them, he says, with management gurus that improve the management of the paper. back to mr. o neal, here s part of what he says. shouldn t a 60-year-old corporate chairman already know whether he s a leader? shouldn t that have been decided by age 35 or so? and a track now, in mid crisis? we put out a great newspaper every day. but outside the newsroom, at the corporate level, we re sailing on a ghost ship. yeah. very appropriate for the
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