The Times Guild, the newsroom union representing nearly 1,500 journalists at the paper, filed a formal grievance yesterday with the paper, saying The Times had violated the terms of its contract. The guild accused top news executives of “targeted interrogation” of journalists of Middle Eastern descent in an investigation of how word of such dissent leaked to The Intercept and other news outlets.
Over the weekend, Executive Editor Joe Kahn and his two top deputies confirmed they had commissioned a leak investigation – itself an extraordinary act for a news organization often reliant on leaks of sensitive material for its own stories. (Several former veteran Times journalists told NPR they were taken aback by the turn of events.)
“Revealing editing drafts, reporter notes or other confidential materials to outside media erodes trust and undermines our culture of collaboration,” Kahn wrote, along with managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan. “No one in our newsroom or company has been or will be scrutinized because of ethnic or national origin… Any such thing would be deeply offensive to us and the Guild’s accusation is wrong.”
TL;DR:
Instead of correcting their falsified claims of rape, New York Times is trying to find out which person has leaked information about their stories and systematically harasses Arab employees to expulse any dissent against israel.
That makes perfect sense.
Scrambling to find ways to look out for Zionists while making it appear they’re impartial?
I think we’re gonna see a lot of similar ‘implosions’ in the coming months.
Transparency for themselves would do as much good as the one they dream of having from the government. But no, instead they go on a witch hunt. I hope the guild does not let that go gently
Revealing editing drafts, reporter notes or other confidential materials to outside media erodes trust and undermines our culture of collaboration
FWIW, the union says that the claim that unpublished materials were leaked is bullshit.
Also, I greatly enjoyed the juxtaposition of the freakout over talking with outside media alongside:
(Several former veteran Times journalists told NPR they were taken aback by the turn of events.)
Calling NYT “The Times” is confusing since there already is a newspaper called the Times in the UK.
