{"id":168235,"date":"2021-02-01T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/double-standards-abound-at-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:04:11","slug":"double-standards-abound-at-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/double-standards-abound-at-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"#Double standards abound at The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Double standards abound at The New York Times<\/strong>”
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Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, decided to give science<\/a> reporter Donald McNeil a second chance despite finding that he\u2019d made offensive (allegedly quite racist) remarks on a trip<\/a> with schoolchildren. Fair enough \u2014 but how does that square with the Times\u2019 crucifixion of ESPN\u2019s Doug Adler a few years back?<\/p>\n

Adler\u2019s only \u201ccrime\u201d was to describe Venus Williams\u2019 play at the net as \u201cguerrilla\u201d tactics. But, as our own Phil Mushnick has reported repeatedly, a Times critic took it as \u201cgorilla\u201d \u2014 and that was enough not only to get ESPN to fire Adler, but to destroy his career.<\/p>\n

And no matter that \u201cguerrilla\u201d is used often enough in tennis talk that Nike made an ad with Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras playing \u201cguerrilla tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNeil, meanwhile, faced claims from multiple sources that he made sexist and racist remarks on a Times-organized 2019 student trip. He allegedly used the N-word and insisted white supremacy doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Yet, after an investigation, Baquet decided that McNeil\u2019s intentions weren\u2019t \u201chateful or malicious\u201d and so opted to \u201cformally discipline\u201d the ace science reporter.<\/p>\n

Again, that\u2019s perfectly reasonable. Depending, of course, on the full circumstances, we\u2019re all good with people getting a second chance rather than professional execution. But the Times has never returned to the Adler case \u2014 surely Baquet owes the guy at least an apology?<\/p>\n

Then again, heads rolled in the Times\u2019 opinion section last year after it published an op-ed by a US senator arguing that military force should be mobilized to prevent Black Lives Matter protesters from rampaging in Washington, DC, on the grounds that the argument was intrinsically racist.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the paper now seems perfectly happ<\/a>y to have DC militarized for weeks in the wake of the Jan. 6 right-wing rampage at the US Capitol. Double standards seem to abound at the Gray Lady.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Double standards abound at The New York Times” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, decided to give science reporter Donald McNeil a second chance despite finding that he\u2019d made offensive (allegedly quite racist) remarks on a trip with schoolchildren. Fair enough \u2014 but how does that square with the Times\u2019 crucifixion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/nyt-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[91510,74998,91670,43,4948,4949],"class_list":["post-168235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-31-21","tag-dean-baquet","tag-doug-adler","tag-editorial","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tom-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}