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"It’s been quite baffling and painful for me to have people assume I’m a racist and believe that I said the ridiculous things I’m accused of saying..."March 1, 2021 at 12:10 PM "... that 'racism is over,' that 'white supremacy doesn’t exist,' or 'white privilege doesn’t exist,' or that I defended the use of blackface or said horrible things about black teenagers in general. I’m surprised by how quick some colleagues who barely know me were prepared to accept those accusations and even add more on a Times alumni Facebook page. Someone to whom I don’t think I’ve spoken since 1994 said 'calling him only a racist is being nice.' An editor I happily worked side by side with...Tags: Law, Journalism, Autism, Zimbabwe, Peru, Nyt, Times, Asperger, Moyo, Bulawayo, McNeil, Donald McNeil, Race Consciousness, Ann Althouse, Insults, Ndebele 36 people like this. Like How Comcast's investing arm Comcast Ventures unraveledFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:41 PM Tags: Elon Musk, Media, Advertising, Marketing, Trends, Tesla, Netflix, Canada, Comcast, Digital Media, New York Times, The New York Times, Comcast Ventures, Catalina, Ryan, Ashley Rodriguez 67 people like this. Like "The online publication Slate has suspended a well-known podcast host after he debated with colleagues over whether people who are not Black should be able to quote a racial slur..."February 23, 2021 at 11:01 AM "... in some contexts. Mike Pesca, the host of 'The Gist,' a podcast on news and culture... made his argument during a conversation last week with colleagues on the interoffice messaging platform Slack. In a lengthy thread of messages, Slate staff members were discussing the resignation of Donald G. McNeil Jr., a reporter who said this month that he was resigning from The New York Times after he had used the slur during a discussion of racism while working as a guide on a student trip in 2019....Tags: Law, Censorship, New York Times, Anderson, Slate, Mike Pesca, Jacob Weisberg, Donald McNeil, Race Consciousness, Ann Althouse, Insults, Joel Anderson, Employment Discrimination, DONALD G McNEIL Jr, Jacob Weisberg Slate, Slate disagreed For Black 35 people like this. Like "The parents of adventurous young meritocrats paid $5,490 (plus airfare) for two weeks studying 'Public Health and Development in the Andes.'"February 15, 2021 at 6:32 PM  Tags: Law, America, New York Times, The Times, Nyt, Ivy League, Ben Smith, Times, Smith, Machu Picchu, Shepherd, Andes, Lee Fang, FANG, Sophie Shepherd, Andover 84 people like this. Like Spiked New York Times column on reporter's exit published by New York PostFebruary 12, 2021 at 12:28 PM Bret Stephens piece criticizing newspaper’s handling of Donald McNeil departure over racist language was pulled by senior bossesAn article that was spiked by the New York Times – in which a conservative columnist criticised the newspaper’s handling of a former reporter who left the paper over his use of a racist slur – has been published in full by the New York Post. Related: Trump’s defense team expected to push for swift conclusion of second impeachment trial – live Continue reading...Tags: New York Post, Media, World news, Newspapers, US news, New York Times, US press and publishing, Trump, Bret Stephens, Donald McNeil, Spiked New York Times 3 people like this. Like The New York Post publishes the Bret Stephens column that the New York Times spiked.February 12, 2021 at 7:22 AM It's not that Stephens, a regular NYT columnist, can or would just give the rejected column to another newspaper to publish. The Post tells us the column — which defends the NYT reporter who got ousted for saying the n-word — "circulated among Times staffers and others" and the Post got hold of it "from one of them, not Stephens himself." Presumably, the Post publishes it because it is newsworthy — not as an opinion on the news but because the spiking of it is news, so we need to see what it is....Tags: Post, New York Post, Law, Congress, America, Journalism, Rap, Conversation, House, New York Times, Shanghai, The Times, Peru, Nyt, State Department, Morality 24 people like this. Like 2 journalists at The New York Times left the company following separate controversiesFebruary 6, 2021 at 11:33 AM Tags: News, Media, New York City, Trends, New York Times, Peru, The New York Times, Kahn, Donald, Mills, Dean Baquet, Baquet, McNeil, Donald McNeil, Caliphate, Joe Kahn 91 people like this. Like Two New York Times journalists leave paper over different controversiesFebruary 6, 2021 at 9:57 AM Donald McNeil, reporter who used racist slur on student trip, and Andy Mills, Caliphate podcast producer, departed, staff memo saidTwo New York Times journalists have left the paper over separate controversies including its high-profile public health and Covid-19 reporter Donald McNeil following disclosures about his use of racist language while on a company-sponsored student trip.Following allegations of McNeil’s conduct when he had used the N-word in front of high school students on a 2019 tri...Tags: Media, World news, Newspapers & magazines, Newspapers, US news, New York Times, Peru, US press and publishing, McNeil, Donald McNeil, Andy Mills Caliphate 1 people like this. Like "'Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended.' The science reporter... described the 'n-word' incident..."February 6, 2021 at 9:17 AM "... as having occurred during a dinner discussion about the use of racial slurs, in which one student on the trip asked whether a classmate should have been suspended for using racist rhetoric in a video. 'To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,' McNeil wrote. He apologized for 'extraordinarily bad judgment' to both the staff of the Times, singling out...Tags: Law, Nyt, Times, Dean Baquet, McNeil, Donald McNeil, Race Consciousness, Ann Althouse, Insults, NY Times Star 50 people like this. Like The Big PictureMay 12, 2020 at 9:10 PM When I posted my COVID19 turning points one of mine – and one that many TPM Readers shared – was listening to New York Times science and health reporter Donald McNeil on The Daily podcast on February 27th clearly comparing COVID to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in which “not everybody died, but everybody knew somebody who died.”
Here is McNeil talking to Christiane Amanpour about the federal response to the epidemic. There’s no new fact you won’t know. Or not many. But he puts the whole picture...Tags: News, Cdc, New York Times, Josh Marshall, Christiane Amanpour, Redfield, McNeil, Donald McNeil, DONALD G McNEIL Jr, Editors' Blog 30 people like this. Like New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is PossibleDecember 5, 2014 at 4:08 PM  Tags: Cdc, United States, Frieden, Thomas R Frieden, Relenza, Donald McNeil |
