There is a sharp divide between old school journalists at the New York Times and the more “woke” digital reporters and young African Americans that work at the paper, according to Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz.
Kurtz citing a report from New York magazine claims that there is a sharp divide in the newsroom that fosters a culture of intolerance toward anybody who shares a more conservative point of view.
The Times apparently created an internal feedback channel in the summer following the riots and protests that came in response to the George Floyd killing. The channel called #newsroom – feedback has become a blog for hate and rhetoric within the confines of the company.
The report states that employees paste tweets criticizing the paper into the channel prompting people to get defensive. Sometimes people leak internal conversations to Twitter.
Former Times opinion writer Bari Weiss who resigned from the paper in July because he said he was being bullied by colleagues, described what was going on at the paper as a “civil war” between the mostly young “wokes” and the mostly 40 + liberals.
“What we don’t know is if the people that are cozying up to Joe Biden are even willing to take a different look at writing from different perspectives,” said Kurtz. “Digital subscriptions more than doubled when the paper was ripping President Trump.”
