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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...
Amen-Amen-Amen. The trailer for the film was released this week and outlines the story of the first Jewish congregation in the UAE, which, in 2018, created a Torah scroll in honour of Sheikh Zayed, the Founding Father. In November 2019, the scroll was presented in a ceremony to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, by the community’s rabbi and other members. Amen-Amen-Amen – its title derived from the holy word present in Arabic, Hebrew and English – traces the journey leading up to that moment, from the writing of the scr...
Happening there. >> robert, this is not your first visit to yemen and when we talk about places that people don't already know that are already poor and set back, it's hard to understand what a conflict like this does to a country like guess it's easier understand when there are 20-plus million people in a humanitarian crisis. >> yes, well, that's what's striking about yemen is that it was the poorest country in the arab world even before this started. a place where people live close to the edge. it's a country with almost no water. the capital of yemen has been projected for many years to be ...