It's been heartening watching all of journalism raise their hands in outrage at the fact that a Daily Beast editor-at-large said Bari Weiss should be assaulted. It shows that concerns about journalistic safety are genuine and not weaponized for political gain.
Things are great.
Things are great.
This was similar to when a BuzzFeed staffer said on Twitter that I should be punched in the face, and, similarly, all my colleagues in journalism reacted as one: "This is indefensible!," they cried.
Overall, I cannot emphasize enough the extent to which journalism currently has a healthy internal culture, which no major problems to speak of. Differences are discussed coolheadedly and it is understood we're all in this together.
Furthermore, it's reassuring to me how high-ranking staffers at major publications vacilate between
publicly dragging anyone who suggests there is an internal problem in journalism right now and tweeting assuredly there IS no major problem (because they would have heard about it)
publicly dragging anyone who suggests there is an internal problem in journalism right now and tweeting assuredly there IS no major problem (because they would have heard about it)
