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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Forbidden 'Diversity' at The New York Times
March 20, 2015 - 8:23 AM
By L. Brent Bozell III & Tim Graham
Sound the trumpets. The New York Times announced on March 18 that it is
bringing in 20 new online-focused writers as contributors for its op-ed and
Sunday Review sections.
In an interview, Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal claimed, "We
were looking for a broad range of viewpoints and subjects and backgrounds
and geographical locations and every kind of form of diversity that you can
think of."
Lower the trumpets. Bring in the fact checker. It seems the viewpoint-
diverse Times can't seem to locate a conservative acceptable to executives
prowling the halls in the snooty Times offices in midtown Manhattan.
Some names on the list are easily identified as radical-left. Start with
Michael Eric Dyson, MSNBC contributor known for comparing Obama to God and
suggesting Rush Limbaugh "is trying to foment a universe of bigotocracy."
Roxane Gay is a leftist darling of the NPR set and the author of a book
called "Bad Feminist." She told Mother Jones, "The older I get, and the more
I learn, the more I try to create a space within feminism for women of
color, for working-class women, for queer women, for transgender women."
Some tout hard liberal political activist resumes. David Kirp is a professor
at Berkeley who served on President Obama's transition team. Novelist Lydia
Millet used to work for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Others are longtime liberal journalists. Judith Shulevitz spent years on the
staffs of Slate and The New Republic, and married the dean of the Columbia
Journalism School. Mimi Swartz is an executive editor of Texas Monthly and
worked in the 1990s for Tina Brown at Talk magazine, and then at The New
Yorker.
Then there are the liberal fools. Molly Worthen began a Times book review
last June by claiming "Jimmy Carter may be the most pious man ever to have
occupied the White House." She even compared him to Jesus, and said that he
could not retire "while child brides are raped and mothers break their backs
hauling buckets of polluted drinking water.
In high office, this kind of fellow-feeling may have been a political
liability, a distraction from sober grand strategy. But it has been the
Passion of Jimmy Carter."
Just as the Times believes David Brooks is a true conservative, so, too,
does it believe it has recruited conservatives in the Gang of 20. Why, look
at William Baude. He was a legal clerk to John Roberts, chief justice of the
Supreme Court. Yes — but a conservative? Not even close. On Tuesday, he
argued in the Times that if Obama loses in the King v. Burwell decision at
the Supreme Court, he should ignore its orders on Obamacare completely
except for the actual plaintiffs in the suit.
Peter Wehner is another Brooks clone, happily wearing the conservative
moniker while savaging the right. He worked in George W. Bush's White House,
advancing one cause after another antithetical to conservative orthodoxy.
Now he just wages rhetorical war on Reaganites. Last November, in a written
attack on Mark Levin and the "Jacobin right," he asserted, "By their own
logic, Reagan would have to have been deemed a RINO (Republican In Name Only
)." He tried to embrace Reagan as "extremely impressive. Yet he could not
even approach the standards of purity embraced by today's radicals on the
right."
The New York Times is nowhere closer to viewpoint diversity. The ideological
range is still radical-left to country club liberal Republican. |
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