NEW YORK — James Bennet, the editorial page editor of The New York Times, has resigned after a controversy over an op-ed column by a senator calling for military force to be used against rioters in US cities.
“Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we’ve experienced in recent years,” said A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher, in a note to the staff. Katie Kingsbury, a deputy editorial page editor at the Times and previously The Boston Globe’s managing editor for digital, as well as its Ideas section editor, will be the acting editorial page editor through the November election, Sulzberger said.
I thought the Globe and Times could get any worse, and now it looks like they will be in lockstep more than ever.
Jim Dao, the deputy editorial page editor who oversees op-eds, is stepping down from his position, which was on the Times masthead, and taking a new job in the newsroom, Sulzberger said.
Bennet’s swift fall from one of the most powerful positions in American journalism comes as hundreds of thousands of people have marched in protest of racism in law enforcement and society in recent weeks, after George Floyd died last month after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer’s knee.
The movement has spread to newsrooms, where journalists and other employees have challenged leadership.
OMG!
Did they challenge any of the lies that were blared from the front pages that led us to an invasion of Iraq (some did, but they were soon marginalized and then out of work)?
Did they challenge any of the banking frauds and corruptions during the implosion of economy back in 2008-2009?
Did they call out the Russian collusion fraud? Have they honestly reported on the Obama spying scandal? No, they minimized the latter while promoting the former and shielding Joe Biden.
When the reporter at ABC complained about the muzzling of the Epstein story, she was slapped down, and the NYT ran cover for Weinstein for years. Did the intrepid reporters stand up for the #MeToo movement? If they did, I missed it. So Rose and Lauer are out of work, big deal. Charges were never brought, in fact, charges have hardly been brought against any of the accused. Hmmmm.
Those points cry out for the question of WHY NOW?
Why, when they never challenged editors or leadership before, why now and beyond that who i$ directing and/or paying them to do so?
Let me tell you something, blogging the truth is NO WAY to make a LIVING!
Come on into the pool. We will eat you up!
On Saturday night, Stan Wischnowski resigned as top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer days after an article in the newspaper about the effects of protest on the urban landscape carried the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” — prompting an apology, a heated staff meeting, and a “sick-out” by dozens of journalists of color.
(Blog editor sat, looked at that, and went "huh." The vast majority of the pre$$ seems to endorse the destruction of property, and I'm with the Beatles on that so you can count me out. Of course, there is always creative destruction, right? The kind that costs reporters their jobs!)
At the Times, the op-ed, published Wednesday, prompted a virtual town hall meeting with the staff Friday, at which Bennet apologized, saying the op-ed should not have been published and that it resulted from a breakdown in a process meant to vet such pieces.
Bennet did not reply to a request for comment Sunday.
Sir, how do you feel as the former editorial page editor at the Times about the pressure brought on you to recant and adopt the policy of censorship in the "free" pre$$?
Sir?
Going to start a blog?
The op-ed, by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, had “Send in the Troops” as its headline. “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers,” the senator wrote.
I don't agree with Cotton's war-mongering on Iran and China, but thank God someone stood up for civil society and called for defending it against lefti$t thugs. The pre$$ and the color protest destabilization and regime change effort seemed to have forgotten that it was not that long ago -- about 50 years -- that the Guard was in fact called out all across this country. It's nothing new. Hell, the Northern Army occupied the South for ten years after the Civil War. Read your history!
As of Thursday evening, more than 800 staff members had signed a letter protesting its publication, addressed to high-ranking editors in the opinion and news divisions as well as New York Times Co. executives.
The letter argued that Cotton’s essay contained misinformation, such as his depiction of the role of “antifa” in the protests. Dozens of Times employees objected to the op-ed on social media, as well, despite a company policy that instructs them not to post partisan comments or to take sides on issues.....
Their whole paper is, the pot-hollering-kettle hypocrites!
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I again ask WHO convinced them to break long-standing behavior and fomented a rebellion in the new$rooms over this, and since I'm starting back in the bu$ine$$ $ection(!) I will let you nibble on this:
Maine adds to slaughtering capacity to ease meat bottleneck
Buried brief won't matter because there is a forced famine coming to AmeriKa, and that issue is nowhere near the front page:
Retail, dining, and many other businesses can begin to reopen in Massachusetts today
It's part of the Great Global Re$et and "across the state, some businesses on Sunday were making last-minute preparations to welcome mask-wearing customers and clients back into shops and offices that have been retrofitted to enable social distancing. Others were still making sense of the state regulations released over the weekend, trying to figure out how to reinvent their operations with the threat of the virus still in the air."
I'm told it's “going to be a learning curve for customers as well as the establishments, but their first priority is to make sure everyone is safe,” and don't take the progress for granted as the state moves into Phase 2 of Baker’s plan for edging back toward "normal."
Meanwhile, down in Connecticut the reopen has been postponed because of protests.
Scholar Ibram X. Kendi brings his antiracism crusade to Boston University
A CRUSADE, huh?
Those never end up well. Lots of dead people. Better stay out of Bo$ton.
What was your grade last spring, and can you imagine what the fall will look like?
Look, here comes the train:
Up next at the MBTA
The empty car went right by as the T aims to help riders decide if the next train or bus has room for social distancing, and I'm told that providing real-time data to all will be difficult.
(flip to below fold)
Yes, people are getting hired during the pandemic
But Katie Johnston of the Globe Staff, says "it’s a lonely process that looks much different. Job candidates say the remote process can make it difficult to form a human connection or get a feel for a company’s culture, while hiring managers grapple with really getting to know applicants. The digital hiring process does have some advantages, said Sean McLoughlin, who leads the technology and marketing practice at the Boston recruiting firm HireMinds. In fact, conducting interviews from home may actually help an applicant get to know a hiring manager on a different level. “You’re in someone’s house, rather than someone’s faceless conference room,” he said. Still, there’s a learning curve. It’s harder to read body language through a computer screen, which can lead to people interrupting each other more often, said Jerry Rubin, president of Jewish Vocational Service in Boston, a workforce development agency that has moved its services online. To be sure, hiring is way down during the pandemic. The number of job openings in May was down 33 percent statewide compared to last May, according to Glass Technologies. The industry with the most positions? Not surprisingly, e-commerce...."
How about this body language, can you read that -- to be sure (please stop conceding the truth of something that conflicts with the agenda-pushing you wish to make. It's evaporated whatever shred of red you had left. Stop writing. Quit of racism and the cops. Take a stand and do the right thing, the moral thing, the just thing)?
At least Uncle Tom is getting to work and defending the Constitution and danger to our democracy:
Colin Powell endorses Biden
Will he even be viable by that point, and the war criminal Powell calls Trump a liar after he waved around a test tube prop at the U.N. Security Council meeting (with a stern-looking George Tenent literally backing him up) for his liar boss Bush. What an A$$hole!
Yeah, Trump doesn't want to waste your money abroad while you are suffering at home, citizen:
"Despite big promises, US has delivered limited aid in global virus response" by Lara Jakes New York Times, June 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has lauded itself as leading the world in confronting the coronavirus, but it has so far failed to spend more than 75 percent of the US humanitarian aid that Congress provided three months ago to help overseas victims of the virus.
In two spending bills in March, lawmakers approved $1.59 billion in pandemic assistance to be sent abroad through the State Department and the US Agency for International Development. As of last week, $386 million had been released to nations in need, according to a government official familiar with the spending totals that the State Department has reported to Congress for both agencies. That money was delivered through private relief groups and large multinational organizations, including UN agencies, that provide health and economic stability funding and humanitarian assistance around the world.
No offen$e, but the American people could use that money.
Btw, AID = CIA, and the US embassies have been CIA stations since W. Bush and perhaps even further back.
Of that, only $11.5 million in international disaster aid had been delivered to private relief groups, even though those funds are specifically meant to be rushed to distress zones. The totals reflected spending on the global coronavirus response as of June 3 by the State Department and the US aid agency and were shared with The New York Times on the condition of anonymity because the figures were intended to be private.
Another $ubver$ive leak.
Relief workers said they were alarmed and bewildered as to why the vast majority of the money was sitting unspent.
They weren't when it came to the states, and that was the la$t straw.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has for months praised US generosity in helping the rest of the world respond to the coronavirus. Collectively, the aid agency and the State Department have committed more than $1 billion in pandemic assistance to more than 100 countries since April, but the vast majority of that has yet to go out the door, tied up in what people with knowledge of the funding described as a complex grant process that had been slowed by micromanagement and delayed decisions.
Ironically, the printed Globe didn't spend the entire story:
More than $500 million in additional funding — the balance of what Congress approved — has yet to even be committed to a humanitarian need, meaning it is likely to be months more before it is released. “The funding pipeline is there — it’s ready to go,” said Bill O’Keefe, an executive vice president for Catholic Relief Services, one of the nongovernmental organizations that is delivering the humanitarian aid to needy nations, “but it is taking too long to turn on the tap.”
They received a federal bailout under the PPP, remember?
His organization has received about $10 million so far to help front-line coronavirus responders in the West Bank, Italy, and Haiti, but he said the aid was being released “demonstrably slower” than in past global health crises, such as the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015. “We’re trying to get ahead of this situation; our goal is to get the prevention going early,” O’Keefe said, “because the fewer cases there are, before things develop, the fewer people are going to suffer and die.”
The money provided by the State Department and the US aid agency largely is to pay for messaging campaigns to educate people on how to protect themselves from the virus, to provide water and sanitation services like hand-washing stations, and to offer health services to refugees, migrants, and other homeless people. Some of the funds have been spent on infection prevention and control.
It's NOT ACTUAL HEALTH CARE, huh?
It's a PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, and one can only wonder WHAT WELL-CONNECTED FIRMS will be running it!
Part of the delay in delivering the funds has been blamed on what officials in the Trump administration and Congress described as an unresolved debate over whether the money can also be used to buy masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment for health workers who are treating coronavirus patients abroad.
Of course. Guy is to blame for everything, and I do mean everything.
Since April, the White House has been weighing whether to ban funding for protective medical gear overseas while the equipment is needed by health providers in the United States. Last month, the US aid agency told some relief groups it could not use the money for personal protective equipment until the White House issued its policy.
US Agency for International Development acting administrator, John Barsa has for weeks told relief groups that a decision is expected imminently, but until then, the ban applies to new aid contracts on a limited basis.
Nazanin Ash, a former senior official at both the US aid agency and the State Department, said it had generally taken 30 to 45 days for humanitarian assistance funding to be delivered to relief organizations during the Ebola outbreak across West Africa and parts of Europe. “Now it’s stretching to three to four months for funds to reach front-line responders, for a pandemic orders of magnitude greater than Ebola and for which prevention is the essential approach,” said Ash, who is a vice president at the International Rescue Committee.
The delay also comes as government officials and relief groups are trying to predict how much more money will be needed to confront the virus in the months and years to come, especially in poor and unstable nations that depend on US support.
Oh, it will BE AROUND YEARS, huh?
It's already dying according to scientist in Italy and England, and has mutated so fast that they will never be able to develop an effective va¢¢ine.
Officials are considering projections of $5 billion to $12 billion for future global coronavirus response efforts that the United States funds. Congressional officials and relief workers voiced concern that vast amounts of additional resources would not be approved if the money that had already been appropriated continued to sit unspent.
It's another f**king $hakedown!
Ash worked as a top staff member for foreign assistance at the US aid agency under President George W. Bush and later as a deputy assistant secretary of state under President Barack Obama. She said the agency had long been recognized as among the world’s most effective disaster aid responders, no matter its political leadership. “Their absence on COVID response is a gaping hole,” she said.
Like what we saw at the WTC on the morning of 9/11.
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The USAID spokeswoman, Pooja Jhunjhunwala, said in a statement Friday that they “want to ensure that we are accountable for the effective use of COVID funds and are good stewards of US taxpayers’ dollars,” and one wonders $ince when?
Also see:
Rain, road flooding as Tropical Storm Cristobal draws closer
It barely shows up on the pre$$ radar, and the California fire photo (8 of 10) was completely put out of print (looks like weather weapon chaos for Californians again this summer, God help them).
Calif. sheriff’s deputy killed in ambush
The Globe minimizes that in a brief while cheering on the thugs that did it (if they don't, they lose their jobs).
Related:
"National Guard troops will be pulled out of California cities where they’ve been deployed for a week after rampant violence and thievery marred the first days of protests over the death of George Floyd, officials announced Sunday. The announcement came as peaceful demonstrations again popped up across the state, including one on horseback and another on wheels, as protesters continue to call for police reforms....."
They will be needed to fight the fires.
Head east, young man!
"Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lifted Chicago's curfew and the city has reopened downtown train stations and allowed full bus service to resume following days of protests that largely remained peaceful....."
Also see:
Trump withdraws out-of-state National Guard members from D.C.
The Washington Compost says he is sending them back home to deal with you:
"Norfolk, Neb., is a quiet, conservative, and predominantly white city of 24,000 people where public protests are rare, except for an annual rally against abortion. So when about 300 people gathered on a busy street corner last weekend to voice their outrage at the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, residents took notice. The rally was peaceful, but the fact it happened at all illustrates how far the movement to protest police brutality and discrimination has spread, fueled by social media and the persistent but less visible racism that minorities say they experience in small towns. While the rallies in major cities nationwide have grabbed headlines, people living in smaller and mid-sized cities have also raised their voices to call for change. Some of those protests have turned violent....."
Hold your powder, patriots, do not be baited, and I noticed that COVID has been completely eradicated in that article!
"Police moved barricades Sunday so protesters could approach the Trump International Hotel and Tower in midtown Manhattan as thousands continued to march against police brutality — this time without a curfew looming in the night. Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted the city’s 8 p.m. curfew ahead of schedule Sunday after a peaceful night Saturday as peaceful protests continued Sunday with thousands of protesters, most of them wearing masks, walking through Manhattan....."
If that doesn't show you that certain authorities are active collaborators in treason, I don't know what will. Threw open the barricades so they could get to Trump. Watch your f**ing back (and food), Mr. President.
Related:
"With New York City poised to reopen after a more than two-month shutdown, officials on Sunday lifted a curfew that was in place amid protests of police brutality and racial injustice, but they also urged that demonstrators be tested for COVID-19. “Get a test. Get a test,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told people who have been participating in rallies and marches in memory of George Floyd. He said the state would open 15 testing sites dedicated to protesters so they can get results quickly. “I would act as if you were exposed, and I would tell people you are interacting with, assume I am positive for the virus,’’ Cuomo added. The call is similar to those made in Seattle, San Francisco, and Atlanta following massive demonstrations, with free testing for protesters. New York has been the epicenter of the US outbreak, with Black communities hit especially hard."
Ah, they lured you in to the COVID-19 dragnet by getting you to protests in what really gets the blood boiling. Tuskegee!
Also see:
Fla. nudist resorts reopening, with garb off but masks on
They are ‘‘in the first phase of our four-phase reopening plan, with phase four being everything goes back to normal — but whether we’ll actually get to that, nobody knows,’’ but at least Bob Kraft has already scheduled a massage session.
Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force
The Globe says it is a bipartisan opportunity to prevent police abuse surfaces because police officers have too much immunity from civil suits, and that the Supreme Court and Congress both have the opportunity to correct as the Democrats work on their own bill in the House.
Barr: There is no systemic racism in law enforcement
The facts prove him out. Only 2% of blacks are killed at the hands of police, while 93% of them are shot and killed by one of their own.
Floyd’s body arrives in Texas for memorial service
Has anyone actually seen the body because it was a closed casket service?
Floyd protests add new front line for coronavirus doctors
Emma Goldberg of the New York Times doesn't tell me if they are all done making dance videos and Last Supper poses. What tools!
"The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country. Worldwide, at least 6.9 million people have been infected by the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University, whose aggregated tally has become the main worldwide reference for monitoring the disease. Its running counter says the United States leads the world with nearly 110,000 confirmed virus-related deaths. Europe as a whole has recorded more than 175,000 since the virus emerged in China late last year. Health specialists, however, believe that the John Hopkins tally falls short of showing the true tragedy of the pandemic. Many governments have struggled to produce statistics that can reasonably be considered as true indicators of the pandemic given the scarcity of diagnostic tests especially in the first phase of the crisis. Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of deaths and infections; critics say it’s an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went as far as to tweet on Saturday that his country’s totals are “not representative” of Brazil’s current situation, insinuating that the numbers were actually overestimating the spread of the virus. Critics of Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly clashed with health specialists over the seriousness of the disease and has threatened to take Brazil out of the World Health Organization, said the decision was a maneuver by the hardman-style leader to hide the depths of crisis. Brazil’s last official numbers recorded more than 34,000 virus-related deaths, the third-highest toll in the world behind the United States and Britain. It reported nearly 615,000 infections, putting it second behind the United States After Bolsonaro stoked his clash with health specialists, Pope Francis cautioned people in countries emerging from lockdown to keep following authorities’ rules on social distancing, hygiene, and limits on movement. “Be careful, don’t cry victory, don’t cry victory too soon,” he said. “Follow the rules. They are rules that help us to avoid the virus getting ahead” again. The Argentine-born pontiff has also expressed dismay that the virus is still claiming many lives, especially in Latin America....."
There you go. We are ONLY in the FIRST PHASE, so EXPECT HELL THIS FALL, and as COVID swings South even the Brazilian meat plants are closing.
More red meat for you:
There was no full call-up of Boston police for Sunday’s demonstration
I'm told "the city did not call in every available police officer to work during Sunday's protest, which gave way to a chaotic and violent scene after a peaceful rally, but experts say it's not clear more police would have meant less destruction," and my immediate reaction was not clear to who?
Police stood in front of a downtown Boston store after the windows were smashed Sunday night(Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
Those were considered peaceful protests, and the fact that the police are standing aside and taking knees tells you there is a much larger agenda afoot. They are damn near insubordinate and derelict in their sworn duty.
Protests against systemic racism continue Sunday throughout the state
I saw one Saturday, but did not go out yesterday.
Cheers!
Water officials to restaurants and bars: Don’t dump all that stale beer down the drain
What do they suggest, dumping it out back?
Dorchester residents losing sleep, patience over firework disturbances
I'm told it is ‘literally every night,’ the same as in our neck of the woods, and it comes just as the mayor says Bo$ton will look at reallocating parts of police budget as the Springfield police launch a body-worn camera program.
Maybe the teachers $hould riot:
Mass. teachers union endorses Markey’s reelection bid
Why go with a loser?
Not even the advertisement effort in the Globe can rescue his sinking campaign.
That reminds me that women were not even seen nor heard in today's Globe.
Not until the end, anyway:
When her mom’s time came, Covid-19 kept them apart
The article by Eric Boodman was about a Ms. Sharon Levine, who spent decades caring for dying patients, and oddly enough, that is the section where the obituaries start -- even though they end in the $ports.
That is where this post ends.
