{"id":176314,"date":"2020-07-15T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/15\/and-now-the-other-trolls-are-leaving-the-times\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:21:00","slug":"and-now-the-other-trolls-are-leaving-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/15\/and-now-the-other-trolls-are-leaving-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now, The Other Trolls are Leaving the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When James Bennet was finally defenestrated for going a troll to far for <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/live-by-troll-die-by-troll.html\">publishing Tom Cotton&#8217;s call to unleash the military on protesters<\/a>, I wondered when the pet trolls that he hired would be out the door.<\/p>\n<p>After all, both have horrible records on accuracy, as well as abusive behavior towards their cow-orkers at the <i>New York Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we have an answer for Bari Weiss (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5), as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/4ay47q\/bari-weiss-is-leaving-the-new-york-times\">about 5 weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a surprise.  The <i>Times<\/i> staff found her toxic for doing things like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bv8n3z\/new-york-times-staffers-grill-leadership-over-tom-cotton-op-ed-during-all-hands\"> excoriating real journalists at the paper, who were then forbidden by policy from responding<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byjoelanderson\/status\/1268654308205006848\">reporting an editor for declining to have coffee with her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping that Bret &#8220;Bedbug&#8221; Stephens, who is if anything even more abusive in his behavior than Weiss, is not long for the paper either.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite possible to hire conservative columnists who, though they might frequently misstate the facts (Brooks and Douthat come to mind) do not contribute to a toxic work environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When James Bennet was finally defenestrated for going a troll to far for publishing Tom Cotton&#8217;s call to unleash the military on protesters, I wondered when the pet trolls that he hired would be out the door. After all, both have horrible records on accuracy, as well as abusive behavior towards their cow-orkers at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,364,490,387],"class_list":["post-176314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-evil","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}