[Newsbot]

Title: New York Times stands by new tech writer Sarah Jeong after racist tweets surface
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2018-08-03 00:15:02

[martin14]

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... rface.html


Oh, the double standards.

Oh, the hypocrisy..


This, now writes for the NYT.

[N_Fiddledog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalq-4niWHA

[BRAH]

martin14 martin14:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-times-stands-by-new-tech-writer-sarah-jeong-after-racist-tweets-surface.html


Oh, the double standards.

Oh, the hypocrisy..


This, now writes for the NYT.

The NYT is Fake News!

[BeaverFever]

$1:

...Ms Jeong claimed the tweets were “counter-trolling” in response to “torrents of online hate” she had routinely received due to being a non-white woman online. Examples she gave included a tweet calling her a “dog-eating gook” and another that said: “If I saw you, I would sock you in your lesbian face.”

In a statement, she added: “While it was intended as satire, I deeply regret that I mimicked the language of my harassers. These comments were not aimed at a general audience, because general audiences do not engage in harassment campaigns.

“I can understand how hurtful these posts are out of context, and would not do it again.”

Since the tweets were uncovered she has suffered a wave of abuse, including racist language. The Verge issued a lengthy statement attacking those targeting Ms Jeong, saying that during her tenure she had “produced remarkable journalism, including difficult reporting on victims of harassment and abuse”.

The site said that “the trolls engaged in this campaign are using the same [disinformation] tactics that exploded during Gamergate”, a misogynist campaign that deluged female writers with death and rape threats over their coverage of video games.

Male gamers who disagreed with criticism that was anchored in feminism posted writers’ real-life details online, hacked their social accounts and more.

The Verge said: “From cries about ‘ethics in journalism’ to ‘fake news,’ journalists have been increasingly targeted by people acting in bad faith who do not care about the work they do, the challenges they face, or the actual context of their statements.

“Online trolls and harassers want us, the Times, and other newsrooms to waste our time by debating their malicious agenda. They take tweets and other statements out of context because they want to disrupt us and harm individual reporters.

“The strategy is to divide and conquer by forcing newsrooms to disavow their colleagues one at a time. This is not a good-faith conversation, it’s intimidation.

“So we’re not going to fall for these disingenuous tactics. And it’s time other newsrooms learn to spot these hateful campaigns for what they are – attempts to discredit and undo the vital work of journalists who report on the most toxic communities on the internet.”

Ms Jeong has been appointed to the Times’ editorial board as its lead technology writer.

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In a statement addressing the backlash the paper said it had “had candid conversations with Sarah as part of our thorough vetting process” including a review of her social media history.

“Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” it added....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/medi ... 75596.html

[shockedcanadian]

Racist!

[martin14]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric

Hurrr de duur, I was only pretending to call for the elimination of white people.

Yeah, sure

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric

Hurrr de duur, I was only pretending to call for the elimination of white people.

Yeah, sure

Then why not post the tweets she was responding to? That would settle it, one way or the other.

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

martin14 martin14:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric

Hurrr de duur, I was only pretending to call for the elimination of white people.

Yeah, sure

Then why not post the tweets she was responding to? That would settle it, one way or the other.

It shouldn't matter what she was replying to, none of that is acceptable. But we live in the era of the double standard, so I'm not shocked.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

martin14 martin14:

Hurrr de duur, I was only pretending to call for the elimination of white people.

Yeah, sure

Then why not post the tweets she was responding to? That would settle it, one way or the other.

It shouldn't matter what she was replying to, none of that is acceptable. But we live in the era of the double standard, so I'm not shocked.

Of course it is not acceptable, but it does matter as to whether the reporter was responding sarcastically to harassment or actually posting outwardly racist remarks.

Either way, Twitter could close tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Either way, Twitter could close tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

I actually believe our lives would be richer for it.

[CharlesAnthony]

Meh. When the fish-wrap serves lemons, make lemonade. The NYT is a litmus test.

"Oh, you read the NYT, do you? That is good to know. In fact, that is all I need to know about you, thank you very much. Keep talking... I will practice my ignore-listening skills while I wait for something more interesting to do."

[Coach85]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Of course it is not acceptable, but it does matter as to whether the reporter was responding sarcastically to harassment or actually posting outwardly racist remarks.

Sorry, it doesn't matter. You don't fight racism with racism. There is no excuse for comments like that.

[llama66]

I was recently told during a "discussion" on facebook that "Intolerance will be met with no tolerance" . I thought that point was in no way hypocritical.

[bootlegga]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

“Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” it added....

Two wrongs don't make a right...at least that's what I was taught growing up.