New York Times Reportedly In ‘Civil War’ With Its Own ‘Woke’ Millennial Reporters

freebeacon ^ | April 3, 2018 | Alex Griswold `

[MarvinStinson]

Employees at The New York Times are reportedly in a simmering generational "civil war," debating whether or not the newspaper should abandon longstanding journalistic norms in the age of Trump.

"I’ve been feeling a lot lately like the newsroom is split into roughly the old-guard category, and the young and ‘woke’ category, and it’s easy to feel that the former group doesn’t take into account how much the future of the paper is predicated on the talent contained in the latter one," a Times employee told Vanity Fair.

"I know a lot of others at the paper with similar positions to mine, especially women and people of color, who feel that senior staff isn’t receptive to their concerns."

The younger staffers are reportedly angry with the hire of op-ed contributors Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss, the decision not to fire accused harasser Glenn Thrush, and being banned from participating in political demonstrations like the Women's March.

The Vanity Fair piece comes after Slack transcripts leaked to the Huffington Post showed reporters complaining about Weiss and constant "microaggressions" at the paper.

In both stories, the "woke" faction of the Times complained that opinion columnists were allowed to tweet their opinions on Twitter, but "a Times reporter could conceivably get into hot water for tweeting something that seems to endorse gun control or Black Lives Matter."

The more institutionally-minded Times staffers stress the need for neutrality and impartiality. "We do not see ourselves, and we do not wish to be seen, as partisan media," said managing editor Joe Kahn. "That means that the news and opinion divide."

[Louis Foxwell]

Perfect. The New Left, where “Woke” means “tranced” and objective means partisan.

[shanover]

Mensheviks and Bolsheviks....

That's a great analogy.

[SaxxonWoods]

Only some old people read newspapers now.

I don’t know any young people who do.

[jarwulf]

Pravda vs Buzzfeed

[mac_truck]

[Amberdawn]

Oh, the irony. I suggest the older set just drink the Kool-Aid and make way for the younger retards. It won’t make a damned bit of difference to the headlines.

[M1911A1]

They spew forth from leftist journalism schools fully indoctrinated.

Awake and on time is a reactionary state of being. Resist!

[exDemMom]

"We do not see ourselves, and we do not wish to be seen, as partisan media," said managing editor Joe Kahn. "That means that the news and opinion divide."

Lolol. That ship sailed decades ago. It looks like the battle now is between those who hide behind a thin veneer of impartiality and those who want to be openly socialist propagandists. They brought this on themselves by not embracing neutral reporting from the get-go.

[Maris Crane]

It seems the younger employees feel the paper is too conservative.

What a fine mess they have there.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

"WTF is a "woke" category? They arrive awake and on time? "

Laughed and almost spewed my tea! I'm "spew"!

[Vince Ferrer]

[robel]

Hey! Let’s give ALL the kids a trophy. It’ll be great for their self esteem. And then when they grow up and get into the workforce, the little leftist indoctrinated know-it-alls can take over and show you how it should be done.

[heartwood]

As you sow...

[RightGeek]

“Get woke and go broke”

[scott says]

My nephew just started at the NY Times and has 3 stories published,human interest stuff.
the kid was a mess 10 years ago—dropped out of HS, addicted to oxcy....
His Dad, my brother was a Police Sargent in our hometown, luckily the kid turned his life around—went back and got his GED—got a scholarship to New York City College and now has landed a job at the NY Times.
A couple months back he posted an anti-Trump rant on his Facebook Page—how the Press needed to be left alone, blah,blah,blah—
well Uncle scott stepped in and ripped the kid a new a-hole, lol.
After stating the true issue with the Fake Media and hack media I told him straight up that I have more respect for drug addicts then I do “journalists”.
we do not talk politics that much—but I told him stick to the human interest stuff—stay away from the sewer that is politics. I think the kid will come around—he has a good heart—just needs the proper influence and intelligent input to see what is going on. I told him to come to me if he wants to know what is really going on and not to listen to the brain dead liberal clowns he is surrounded by——time will tell.

[GOPJ]

Is this an April fools joke that is late?

That's as good a guess as any...

[A strike]

” Mensheviks and Bolsheviks....”

Great point; All antiAmerican. (and stupid as all hell)

[arthurus]

So what is left to abandon? Or is it time to abandon previous norms in order to promote outright armed and bloody Revolution?

[arthurus]

They are rushing on a line from Trtsky to Stalin to Che to Mao.

[arthurus]

The Midwich Cuckoos.