{"id":1457024,"date":"2022-04-28T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457024"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:45:18","slug":"the-power-of-words-axios-is-killing-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-power-of-words-axios-is-killing-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Words: Axios Is Killing Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-power-of-words-axios-is-killing-journalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>1 large item: Enhanced articulation\u2014in your words<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Several readers\u2014including Dick Cheney, Erik Prince, John Daly, Kid Rock, Dana White, Snoop Dogg, Elon Musk, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and Jose &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/big-boy-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Boy Pants<\/a>&#8221; Rodriguez\u2014have launched a preemptive strike on my inbox to ensure the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> would fight back against what many of them described as the &#8220;pussification&#8221; of American journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0bottom line<\/strong>: You bet your ass we will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy crap<\/strong>: The news blog <em>Axios<\/em>\u00a0promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/the-power-of-words-killing-killers-with-humility-94f0cc6b-f18e-4b76-a1f0-79653d613a11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caved<\/a> after Arianna Huffington and other woke scolds criticized its use of the phrase &#8220;killers with humility&#8221; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/seeking-the-killers-with-humility-at-work-83753674-f378-4044-bba0-5256a5a17bbe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describe<\/a> the ideal <em>Axios<\/em> employee. The website&#8217;s founder, Jim VandeHei, agreed with critics who argued the word &#8220;killers&#8221; is &#8220;too masculine and could scare off possible candidates&#8221; and undermine the organization&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be smart<\/strong>: What a load of rubbish. Our readers are right to be concerned. &#8220;The language police are out of control,&#8221; Mr. Rock wrote via text. Cheney agreed, suggesting that VandeHei perform an\u00a0anatomically impossible sex act upon himself.\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em> cofounder Mike Allen could spend all day ironing the wrinkles out of VandeHei&#8217;s pleated khakis, said Rodriguez, but they&#8217;d still be &#8220;little girly pants with some extra room in the back to accommodate his poopy diaper.&#8221; Daly&#8217;s remarks were too vulgar to be printed in this space. Gorka told <em>me<\/em>\u00a0to go f\u2014 myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>:\u00a0Obsequious mollycoddles like VandeHei are killing journalism. Gutting the English language like a feral hog to placate the Arianna Huffingtons of the world is a fool&#8217;s errand. First they&#8217;ll come for the so-called violent words, the ones that project strength and virility, but they sure as hell won&#8217;t stop at killing &#8220;killers.&#8221; Before you know it, they&#8217;ll insist on canceling words like &#8220;winners,&#8221; &#8220;heroes,&#8221; and &#8220;womanizers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture<\/strong>: American children who dream of torturing terrorists, incinerating enemy combatants, and bedding beautiful women will be told their dreams are &#8220;too masculine&#8221; for their own good, whereas\u00a0Democratic sexual deviants like Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Chris Dodd, Harvey Weinstein, and Andrew Cuomo will become &#8220;individuals affected by the #MeToo movement.&#8221; We will do everything in our power to win this fight, because we must.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The future liberals want<\/strong>: <em>Axios<\/em>\u00a0readers wrote in to suggest suitable replacements for &#8220;killers with humility&#8221; to characterize the ideal <em>Axios<\/em> employee\u2014someone with &#8220;exceptional talent + unmistakable humility,&#8221; words that have never been used to accurately describe a journalist. The results will make you weep for the future of humanity. The news blog will pick a winner among the following five finalists: 1) &#8220;Winners with humility,&#8221; 2) &#8220;Selfless superstars,&#8221; 3) &#8220;Humble warriors,&#8221; 4) &#8220;Aces with grace,&#8221; and 5) &#8220;Humble high performers.&#8221; Heaven help us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reality check<\/strong>: Why is &#8220;humility&#8221; considered such a desirable trait? At the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, we aspire to employ individuals who exude &#8220;justified arrogance&#8221; and will do whatever it takes to own the libs at any cost. Extremism, or even some mild sociopathic behavior, in defense of liberty is not a vice, in our view. We want &#8220;killers who crush it,&#8221; &#8220;enhanced articulators,&#8221; and &#8220;studs who put the \u2018bull&#8217; in \u2018bully,&#8217; and the \u2018sass&#8217; in \u2018assassination.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A simple rule we try to live by<\/strong>: If a certain phrase is &#8220;offensive&#8221; to a group of people, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean you can or should find a better way to say it. More often than not, the people getting offended are a bunch of uptight libs with graduate degrees who need an outlet to absolve their guilt about earning mid-six-figure salaries as a corporate lawyer or in the comms shop of a union-busting corporation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I think about this<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1588719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/think.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/think.png 1000w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/think-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/think-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/think-736x428.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 large item: Enhanced articulation\u2014in your words Several readers\u2014including Dick Cheney, Erik Prince, John Daly, Kid Rock, Dana White, Snoop Dogg, Elon Musk, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and Jose &#8220;Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":1888555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}