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The beleaguered New York Times continues to be plagued by internal issues and chaos as Gray Lady editors refused to publish a column by conservative columnist Bret Stephens, who intended to criticize the paper’s leadership.
By now you’ve heard of what the New York Times did to 47-year veteran science reporter Donald McNeil. The short version is, he was on an educational trip to Peru with some 15- and 16-year-old students in 2019. During one of those teachable moments the trip was supposed to be about, McNeil “was asked at dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. 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 ...
The "resignation" of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has sparked a furious back-and-forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Grey Lady’s handling of his departure.
‘This Is Not the NYT I Know’: Staffers Fight over Paper Forcing Out Longtime Reporter Staff members at the New York Times are reportedly clashing after its longtime reporter Donald McNeil Jr. was forced to resign last week for using “racist language” in 2019. In posts to a private Facebook group, the Washington Free Beacon reportedly discovered Times staffers heatedly arguing about whether the ousting of McNeil, a science reporter who had been at the paper for 45 years, was justified. “What ever happened to the notion of worker solidarity … to giving a fellow worker the benefit ...
McNeil Jr. was ousted following complaints he used the N-Word on a 2019 school trip in Peru Former Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse hit out at those 'far more willing to sympathize with these privileged 15- and 16-year-olds than with a colleague' Times crossword columnist Deb Amlen said: 'Why is it the focus almost always on ruining the perpetrator's life, and not those who were harmed by [his actions]' It was first reported last week that multiple students and parents had lodged complaints against McNeil Jr. back in 2019 after he allegedly used the N-word Top bosses told staff 'w...