The Onion has had the best takes on this so far
As is tradition
“Times Writer Forced Out and Charged With Possession of a Conscience”
“While I respect that she has strong convictions, this was a clear violation of The Times’s policy on public protest,” magazine editor Jake Silverstein wrote in an email to staff Friday evening. “This policy, which I fully support, is an important part of our commitment to independence.”
Silverstein said Hughes also violated the policy earlier in the year
I get that it’s a policy many disagree with but breaking it twice, yeah you’ll get fired (or forced to resign I guess)
You’re definitely on the right side of things when you silence people calling out genocides.
Right. If you think people calling out genocide are wrong, show evidence that contradicts that contradicts that conclusion.
which should be really easy given there will be all the people free and not rounded up on camps with limited expression
Here in chile the pro Palestine posture is razonably transversal and condemnation to Israel is normal to see.
Yeah, it’s interesting how the rest of the world gets a pass. It’s almost as if they have to forcibly, manipulate the pro-zionism mindset in the country whose tax payers fund this genocide in its entirety. Hopefully this country can rid itself of that mental disorder and Israel can start taking the responsibility it should have in the beginning when it begged the world for their own safe space where people already lived.
The little blurb in the middle of this article about genocide hyping up their “Style!” section as if genocide is just a fun and light pop culture topic is unreal
Silverstein said Hughes also violated the policy earlier in the year, when she signed an open letter protesting the Times’s coverage of transgender issues. “She and I discussed that her desire to stake out this kind of public position and join in public protests isn’t compatible with being a journalist at The Times, and we both came to the conclusion that she should resign,” he wrote in the email.
It seems having a spine isn’t compatible with being a journalist at the Times.
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Well, “anywhere where they expect their journalists to present a neutral point of view or the appearance of it” would be more appropriate than saying it’s something that only applies to The Times… Journalists know they’re risking their career by doing something like what happened here. 8t might lead them to become columnists instead, as happened with a local TV journalist that decided to write a letter criticizing a controversial bill and to submit it for publishing in a journal, she lost her job and started writing books and opinion pieces instead.
Good for her. She shouldn’t write for a rag that apologizes for / denies genocide.
All the news that’s fit to print
Eh… She probably will get a better employer who actually has a conscience.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York Times announced in a note to staff Friday that a writer for its magazine resigned after violating newsroom policy by signing an open letter that accused Israel of trying to “conduct genocide against the Palestinian people.”
Jazmine Hughes, who joined the paper in 2015 and has won multiple national awards, was one of the most prominent names on a statement published last week by a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza.
“While I respect that she has strong convictions, this was a clear violation of The Times’s policy on public protest,” magazine editor Jake Silverstein wrote in an email to staff Friday evening.
Hughes has won a string of accolades while working as a writer and editor at the Times, including a National Magazine Award in March for profiles on Viola Davis and Whoopi Goldberg.
The Israel-Gaza war has forced many institutions to contend with members who feel strongly about the conflict, which involves a long history of Israeli occupation and deadly military reprisals on Palestinian territory.
David Velasco was ousted as editor in chief at Artforum after the arts publication posted an open letter that supported Palestinian liberation and called for a cease-fire.
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