{"id":1772285,"date":"2022-12-12T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772285"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:19:24","slug":"michael-goodwin-new-york-times-strikes-while-the-irony-is-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-goodwin-new-york-times-strikes-while-the-irony-is-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Goodwin: New York Times Strikes While the Irony Is Hot"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmichael-goodwin-new-york-times-strikes-while-the-irony-is-hot%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=1772285&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\"   style=\"display:none\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last week was not a good week for the American left. The curtain was pulled back on two of its key captive institutions and the pictures of sanctimonious, self-dealing ideologues were not pretty.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/07\/new-york-times-journalists-to-strike-thursday-after-contract-negotiations-fail\/\">strike by 1,100 newsroom employees at The New York Times l<\/a>asted only one day, but that was long enough to better understand why the paper has gone astray. Supporters of socialism-like tax-and-spending policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/ny-times-staffers-walk-out-but-two-key-reporters-cross-picket-line\/\">many reporters and editors wore red for the occasion and urged solidarity from readers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No word on whether they called each other comrade.<\/p>\n<p>Already the Gray Lady has turned so far left that she\u2019s barely recognizable to generations of readers, but to the radical staff, the paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/04\/kpop-musical-demands-apology-after-racist-new-york-times-review\/\">just another racist rag<\/a>. Black employees as a group reportedly do not score well on managers\u2019 evaluations, and a union leader insisted it was only because of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that they are weighted against employees of color at The New York Times,\u201d Susan DeCarava, president of the NewsGuild of New York, told Fox News. \u201cFor example, no black employee at The New York Times has ever received the highest rating possible. Nikole Hannah-Jones is in our unit. Tell me how she is not doing that caliber-type of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeCarava\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/11\/nikole-hannah-jones-decides-what-stories-are-important\/\">citing of Hannah-Jones is telling<\/a>, though not in the way she intended. The maven of the ahistorical 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for her error-riddled essay, and the Times is pushing its false claims into schools.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg\" alt=\"Reportedly  no black employee at The New York Times has ever received the highest rating possible.\" class=\"wp-image-24972108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20221208_znp_h156_009.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Union leaders claim that the Times discriminates against its employees of color. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet apparently her editors secretly have problems of their own with Hannah-Jones\u2019 work. Now they tell us.<\/p>\n<p>The Times is not just racist, it\u2019s also cheap, the strikers say, pointing to a paltry newsroom median salary of \u2014 get this \u2014 $120,000. That\u2019s nearly double the national figure.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the socialist with three houses, feels the strikers\u2019 pain. \u201cThe staff at The New York Times are fighting for a living wage and fair pay \u2014 something that is not so radical when the company just approved $150 million in stock buybacks for its investors,\u201d he said in a statement. He added ominously that \u201cit is long past time in this country that we explore new ways to empower media workers to effectively collectively bargain with large corporations like The New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>In fact, the employees\u2019 union and the company are bargaining, but with the left, the system is always broken unless they get everything they demand. It\u2019s good to see that, at least at the Times, they are finally eating their own.<\/p>\n<p>There are also heaps of irony in the union\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/09\/us-producer-prices-jump-more-than-expected-in-november\/\"> citing inflation and the cost of living<\/a> in the New York region to justify demands for big salary hikes. It doesn\u2019t occur to the strikers that their paper endorsed Joe Biden and all the region\u2019s big spending, high-taxing Democratic governors \u2014 the very people who are largely to blame for stratospheric living costs.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Times staff should do what so many other New Yorkers have done \u2014 get a tax cut by moving to Florida!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the other left-wing comeuppance is taking place at Twitter, where new owner Elon Musk is boldly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/elon-musk-defends-fbi-but-says-old-twitter-was-democratic-party-activist-machine\/\">revealing how employees secretly limited the reach of conservative users<\/a> even as they publicly and repeatedly denied doing so, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/jack-dorsey-told-congress-under-oath-twitter-was-not-shadow-banning\/\">including to Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts,\u201d independent journalist Bari Weiss <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/suppression-of-right-wing-users-exposed-in-latest-twitter-files\/\">wrote after getting an inside look at the \u00adoperation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said conservatives such as talk-show host Dan Bongino, Stanford University\u2019s anti-COVID-lockdown advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and activist Charlie Kirk were among those targeted for suppression by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The moves were all part of a sweeping system of \u201cvisibility filtering\u201d that used a series of anodyne words to mask the intent and impact. For example, Weiss writes that Bhattacharya, \u201cwho argued that COVID lockdowns would harm children, was placed on a \u2018Trends Blacklist,\u2019 which prevented his tweets from trending.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Bongino was secretly restricted with a \u201cSearch Blacklist,\u201d Weiss wrote, while Kirk\u2019s account got \u201cDo Not Amplify\u201d instructions. Another journalist with Musk\u2019s blessing, Matt Taibbi, followed with a report on the internal discussions that led to Donald Trump eventually being banned from the site.<\/p>\n<p>What is not yet fully in focus is how much of an ongoing role FBI agents played in all those decisions. We know agents warned the big social-media platforms against The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop revelations in 2020 on the false claim they could contain hacked material or Russian disinformation, but whether agents played a similar role in restricting conservative users at Twitter is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>What is beyond dispute is that the Times\u2019 strike and the Twitter releases show how a relative handful of spoiled, bigoted ideologues have been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/twitter-files-critics-slam-platform-over-suppression-of-right-wing-commentators\/\">warping America\u2019s political and cultural discourse.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2>Catch up on Twitter\u2019s censorship of The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Even allowing for the fact that large social movements almost always begin with small groups of fanatics, it is remarkable how far off center the left has been able to push America in just a few short years. From the 1619 Project to endless COVID lockdowns to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/liberal-media-refuses-to-tell-full-truth-about-transgender-kids\/\">pushing transgender advocacy in elementary schools<\/a>, these radicals have managed to force-feed their ideas widely into general circulation while using the government, Big \u00adMedia and Big Tech to suppress contrary evidence and views.<\/p>\n<p>And they haven\u2019t stopped yet. In the Times\u2019 Saturday edition, a supposedly straight news article about Musk\u2019s Twitter releases said his \u201ccritics,\u201d (translation: leftist Democrats) feared \u201che would make the social network more susceptible to right-wing misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unwittingly, the writer\u2019s construct is right out of Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984.\u201d There, and now to the Times and its fellow travelers, facts are right-wing misinformation, while left-wing misinformation is truth.<\/p>\n<p>This is who they are.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg\" alt=\"This comes amid discussions of a congestion toll.\" class=\"wp-image-24972110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/113022_MTA_armed_subway_guards_13.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>New York legislators have begun discussing fare hikes for public transportation. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Tax and spend again<\/h2>\n<p>For many New Yorkers, both the city and the state are at a tipping point. Problems are growing faster than solutions, creating the feeling that 2023 could be a make-or-break year.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in Albany, the all-Democrat government appears locked in a time warp, as if these are the days of wine and roses. In the weeks since the election, the business-as-usual approach included <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/05\/mta-should-not-be-asking-for-more-money-us-rep-nicole-malliotakis-scolds\/\">talk of fare hikes in the transit system <\/a>and on Thruway tolls.<\/p>\n<p>With a crushing congestion tax in Manhattan already on the table, the Legislature couldn\u2019t resist the urge to dip its beak into this river of new money. Naturally, it\u2019s going to give itself a raise.<\/p>\n<p>Also naturally, Gov. Hochul is all for it.<\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, no, they have no shame.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Intel\u2019 slip is showing<\/h2>\n<p>Reader John Capano raises a good question about the 51 former intelligence officials who warned in 2020 that the crucial emails on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop could be Russian disinformation. Capano writes: \u201cYou would think these officials would be more alarmed now that the emails have been authenticated and Joe Biden is in office. Why aren\u2019t they expressing concern that Biden is compromised?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was not a good week for the American left. 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