The NLMSM is getting their own tactics, on occasion, used against them.
And they’re squalling like stuck pigs.
Last week, a New York Times editor, Tom Wright-Piersanti, was demoted after 10-year-old tweets mocking Jews and American Indians resurfaced and were widely covered by conservative outlets.
But, but—no fair! [emphasis added]
“But using journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations as retribution for—or as a warning not to pursue—coverage critical of the president is fundamentally different from the well-established role of the news media in scrutinizing people in positions of power,” wrote reporters Jeremy Peters and Kenneth Vogel.
Here, though, are a couple of examples of “news media scrutinizing people in positions of power” (I’m omitting the NLMSM’s conspiracy-peddling here):
[A] CNN crew showed up on an elderly woman’s lawn in Florida to publicly shame her for unknowingly sharing a “Russian-coordinated event” on her Facebook page. Consequently, the woman received waves of violent threats, abuse, and harassment online.
And
[T]he Daily Beast reporter Kevin Poulsen doxed a black forklift operator from New York who doctored a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Naming the man would have been entirely legitimate. Doxing, however, goes a bridge—a deliberate bridge—too far. Doxing someone publishes his address, his personal contact data, where he works, the names and place of work of his wife, and the names of his children—and it often includes where those children go to school.
But the screaming from pseudo-journalists is this: don’t you dare do to us what we do to you. You cannot hold us to our own standards. We’re special, and these are special tools.
Can there be any further question of the fundamental dishonesty of the press, or of the NYT in particular?
No, Mssrs Peters and Vogel. You’re not that special, and neither are the public’s tool of discourse and criticism. You are that disgusting, though. And Wright-Piersanti? Look for him to be quietly repromoted in a bit.
h/t Grim’s Hall
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They certainly thuoght it fair to bring Brett Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook out – and Mitt Romney’s grade-school (!) haircut faux pas – and Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook (though that last certainly didn’t persist much …).
Mother Goose had it right: Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The Romney “beef” exemplifies another…fault…of the NLMSM. Romney’s haircut was relatively common for the time, yet the NLMSM chose to measure it against today’s standard.
That’s just a variation of ye olde double standard.
Eric Hines