{"id":1768016,"date":"2022-12-08T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768016"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:18:00","slug":"great-day-for-america-the-new-york-times-is-barely-reporting-any-news-because-of-a-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/great-day-for-america-the-new-york-times-is-barely-reporting-any-news-because-of-a-writers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Day For America: The New York Times Is Barely Reporting Any \u2018News\u2019 Because Of A Writers\u2019 Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fgreat-day-for-america-the-new-york-times-is-barely-reporting-any-news-because-of-a-writers-strike%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=1768016&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--><p>It\u2019s always a great day to be an American, but Thursday was especially remarkable because writers for a certain \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">Gray Lady<\/a>\u201d are on strike. That means there\u2019s a whole lot less \u201cfake news\u201d out there for a brief moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, The New York Times\u2019 Maggie Astor tweeted, \u201cBarring a breakthrough, @nytimes staff will walk out from midnight to 11:59pm Thursday, Dec. 8. We\u2019re asking readers to stand with us on the digital picket line and not visit any NYT platforms tomorrow. Read local news. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Astor shared photos of herself masked to the brim while standing amongst picketers on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We know what we&#8217;re worth <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9mdBbYYz31\">pic.twitter.com\/9mdBbYYz31<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaggieAstor\/status\/1600914147528638464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Lu, an editor for the paper, also tweeted, \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t have come to this, but here we are: Today, I am one of more than 1,100 @NYTimesGuild workers who are walking out to demand a fair &#038; complete contract. After 20+ months of negotiations, enough is enough. As the makers of @nytimes, we deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It shouldn\u2019t have come to this, but here we are: Today, I am one of more than 1,100 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYTimesGuild<\/a> workers who are walking out to demand a fair &#038; complete contract. After 20+ months of negotiations, enough is enough. As the makers of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a>, we deserve better \u270a\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PU67mE7ojD\">pic.twitter.com\/PU67mE7ojD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wendy Lu (@wendyluwrites) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wendyluwrites\/status\/1600880075964305409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, The NYTimes Guild advised its audience, \u201cIf you see someone\u2019s name on a story on Thursday or Friday, it does not necessarily mean they crossed the picket line to write it. Newspapers often have reporters write portions of stories ahead of time when possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you see someone&#8217;s name on a story on Thursday or Friday, it does not necessarily mean they crossed the picket line to write it. Newspapers often have reporters write portions of stories ahead of time when possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYTimesGuild (@NYTimesGuild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesGuild\/status\/1600854958836154371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiously enough, emails shared by Christina Pushaw, the old press secretary for Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1600679689151860736?s=20&#038;t=5lsL_ugC9oIukELvV-CPLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggest<\/a> that Astor is in fact working on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t that make her a \u201cscab\u201d \u2014 a worker who continues to work in spite of a strike \u2014as represented by \u201cScabby\u201d the rat?<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scabby has arrived <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lcdyzVpqAP\">pic.twitter.com\/lcdyzVpqAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ana Ley (@La__Ley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/La__Ley\/status\/1600907885151936512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it seems we\u2019re going to have a full day without puff pieces about schlubs such as Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto creep accused of stealing millions from investors.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t look as if head honchos and their underlings at the paper will come to an agreement anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The strike comes just months after The Times Union accused the paper\u2019s management of systemic racism. As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/are-reparations-needed-at-the-new-york-times-newsguild-alleges-racial-disparities-at-paper-of-record\">argued by this author<\/a>, perhaps the outlet needs to live up to its own standards and institute reparations by taking money from white folks and redistributing it to the impacted parties.<\/p>\n<p>Or not. Who really cares, but ideally this strike goes on as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>If writers at The Times need to go the rest of their lives without writing another word for the paper, that can only help America.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Andy Bernard from the hit TV show \u201cThe Office,\u201d it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/getyarn.io\/yarn-clip\/e9642c28-b814-4f4f-9993-6dd1bd733f82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addition by subtraction<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a great day to be an American, but Thursday was especially remarkable because writers for a certain \u201cGray Lady\u201d are on strike. That means there\u2019s a whole lot less \u201cfake news\u201d out there for a brief moment in time. On Wednesday, The New York Times\u2019 Maggie Astor tweeted, \u201cBarring a breakthrough, @nytimes staff &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1768019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1768016","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}