I am begging the NY Times to stop being People magazine of campus speech issues nytimes.com/2022/07/01/sty… 
This piece is about the wife of a tenured Princeton prof, who, depending on your point of view, was cancelled for speaking up against BLM, or for having an affair with an undergraduate student in the past (his wife is also a former student).
Look how amazing it all is!
Look how amazing it all is!
While more polite, the piece notes that Ms. Gold is trying to break into the anti-woke grift industry, using her husband's firing as leverage. Already has a Bari Weiss essay.
And The NY Times said, sure, lets help her. Send out the photo crew.
And The NY Times said, sure, lets help her. Send out the photo crew.
WTF NY Times?
More hard-hitting Times coverage of campus conservatives:
“He’s young at heart, and I’m an old soul, and it works."
“She’s very feminine — I might describe her as ultrafeminine."
"She registered to vote Republican at age 18, mostly to be different on the liberal Upper West Side."
“He’s young at heart, and I’m an old soul, and it works."
“She’s very feminine — I might describe her as ultrafeminine."
"She registered to vote Republican at age 18, mostly to be different on the liberal Upper West Side."
This is not journalism. It is the paper of record putting its resources into a puff piece designed to help the wife of a well-known academic jump on the Bari Weiss career path.
Why is the Times doing this?
Why is the Times doing this?
The entire thing is so contrived: the celebrity couple and the Times reporter decide it would be a great idea to do a piece on their salon of intellectuals, so everyone dresses up for a staged dinner, plumping up their national profile for the price of a 1997 Meursault.
NY Times please come over and cover my dinner party: I think you will find the discourse intellectual and heterodox
There are so many gems in this piece:
The "compact, bearded, lover of Bach...pronounced himself a libertine."
The "compact, bearded, lover of Bach...pronounced himself a libertine."
Seems like the reporter might have noted that one of the dinner guests, in addition to being an amateur ballerina and opera buff, is also on the anti-woke grift, President of the campus Federalist Society and writer for the National Review.
Just realizing that this reporter’s last piece was about how sad a campus conservative was for not getting cancelled (+ longer 🧵thread on the failure of the Times on the campus speech beat)
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1534268773011795968
Right on time!
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1540358617743990786
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