Writes Glenn Reynolds, linking to my post "Listen to Bari Weiss's podcast about 'The Central Park Karen,' Amy Cooper."
Glenn is quoting my commenter J, who'd said:
I’m not that interested in delving into the minutia of a he-said/ she-said spat in the park. I forced myself to listen.
Wow — that is what you call journalism.
Everyone should listen. It’s a fair delve into the details that are missed by the “narrative” press. It is the sound of what real journalism should be in this country.”
It's important to notice that the underlying journalism in that podcast was conducted by Kmele Foster, who has a podcast called The Fifth Column. Weiss is excellent at drawing him out and conversing with him about what he's discovered. Both of them are most critical of the way the New York Times (and other media) jammed the story into a simple race template.
If only Bari Weiss could be put in charge of the New York Times. Then she could be there. Alternatively, why can't some billionaire bankroll a new operation with the vision: What the NYT would be if Bari Weiss were in charge.
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Sydney writes:
"You commented: "If only Bari Weiss could be put in charge of the New York Times. Then she could be there. Alternatively, why can't some billionaire bankroll a new operation with the vision: What the NYT would be if Bari Weiss were in charge."
"I recently listened to a Jordan Peterson interview of Bari Weiss, and this is exactly what she would like to do - create a news source that people can go to for accurate information and good journalism free of ideology. She also said she most enjoys the role of editor, helping others become the best journalists they can be. She understands the limitations of her current online format. I sincerely hope she's able to pull off a new, better news source. I would love to have one place I could go for the news that I could trust."
Birches writes:
"I'm about an hour into the podcast. I saw a lot of people posting about the podcast Tuesday and tried to start it but just didn't get there. I recommitted when I saw your post.
"I'm almost an hour in right now and what's surprising to me is how little new information there is to me. Sites that people at the NYT or even The National Review sniff their noses at got the story right almost immediately after it happened. I appreciate that Kmele was able to track down the 911 call, found others who had had bad encounters with Christian Cooper and managed an interview, but that only gave more context to the fact that Christian admitted to threatening that woman's dog with treats. That was known and reported by all the "wrong people" way back in May and conveniently forgotten until more acceptable people were able to "break the story" just now. Now it can be celebrated and amplified. I guess I'm just tired of this happening with so many things: the lab leak, Hunter Biden, Sicknick, etc."
Tina writes:
"If Bari Weiss got a billionaire to underwrite a NYTimes-like publication for her, what it would look like is what the billionaire wanted it to look like. See: Glenn Greenwald, Carlos Slim bailing out the NYT at precisely the moment it goes triple-woke-open-borders crazy (Slim makes his fortune on transfer fees on money sent back to Mexico by illegal aliens). See Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post. Even Joe Rogan immediately got the message that he wasn’t in control of his own podcast archive or guests as soon as he cut a deal to be broadcast by Spotify.
"We might have better journalism if we eliminated the non-profit status for everyone but direct service charities: it’s all these “nonprofit” journalism institutes and billionaire-underwritten academic journalism programs (see John Jay after Soros bought their previously excellent law enforcement journalism program) that possess the cultural power to push a narrative or silence the truth with their “fact-checking.”
"I don’t understand why anybody is minimizing the lynch mob aspects of this story. Why does Megan Phelps-Roper say, at Weiss’ site, that this isn’t about Amy Cooper getting her life ruined? It damn well is about the media fomenting a mob to kill an innocent woman because of her skin color. It is all about Cooper having to go into hiding, losing her career, and living in completely rational fear of being murdered by a mob. And not just Cooper. The same thing happened to a frail (but tough) older woman now living in hiding and losing her beloved home and law practice because the mob came for her after she accidentally encountered a non-permitted, street-swarming BLM mini-riot and was surrounded when she abandoned her car and tried to flee. She was charged with hate crime merely for trying to protect herself — a charge recently dismissed. The rioters who followed her home and broadcast her address and threatened to have her beaten —or worse —in prison and put those threats on YouTube weren’t even arrested, and nobody but I “reported” the very specific threats. The local media repeatedly interviewed the young man who had lunged at the captured, surrounded, elderly woman, and he said repeatedly that she was a racist who wanted to lynch him, which is pure insanity. He attacked her. He was in a mob of hundreds. She was just driving somewhere. If that’s not lynch mob fervor fomented by the media, then what is a lynch mob? She can’t go home again. Amy Cooper can never return to the life she built. Other people abused by this birdwatcher guy were too afraid to report his actions or come forward to defend Cooper because they are white. What about Al Sharpton leading a lynch mob after the Central Park Jogger, who had to be transported to the courthouse in an unmarked van that was recognized by Al’s rioters and nearly toppled by them with the rape victim inside and Sharpton egging them on? What about the DA who had to move his family into hiding after Sharpton cooked up the story about him raping Tawana Brawley? We live in a new lynch mob era, and it has been going on for a long time, and the political party that continues to kiss Sharpton’s ring endorses his lynch mobs every single time they do it."
I'll say:
I was imagining a billionaire with just the right values.
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