New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has issued a Twitter "reset" for the newsroom, urging reporters to "meaningfully reduce" their twitter time and reminding them that tweets and subtweets attacking or undermining their colleagues are not allowed https://t.co/kM0OldIVxS
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) April 7, 2022
When An Individual of Merit has built themselves a (very *nice*, in every sense of the word) career out of assiduous resume-polishing, it is perhaps understandable that they resent underbred upstarts ginning up ‘a following’ by sharing ‘snark’ on some random techno-toy pleased to call itself ‘a media’.
Up with such tomfoolery, The Dean Baquet will not put!
"We eliminated the Public Editor position because we wanted to rely on Twitter as a reporting and feedback tool, but it turns out we don't like either the reporting or the feedback"?? https://t.co/nVaHx55gNe
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) April 7, 2022
Honestly? The NYTimes should pay DougJ a substantial amount to pre-view their headlines, and their headliners, as a way of avoiding some of the most egregious public #FAIL in their timeline…
Why We’re Getting Off Twitter
Middle-class Trump supporters from flyover country threatening to hang us is important feedback. Middle-class liberals from flyover country threatening to ratio us is vile and disgusting.
by Dean Baquet
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 10, 2022
imo if you are not hung up on bad faith accusations, allowing your journalist employees to use twitter responsibly is not a particularly tough decision
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 8, 2022
But seriously, Spiers is quite correct:
I still maintain that unless you are very sure you have tenure at the Times, you should probably be on Twitter if you’re a journalist: https://t.co/vXVZpIQ4a7
— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) April 7, 2022
not only does the NYT demonize twitter and hyperventilate about reporters having very normal human opinions online, they don't understand modern concepts like brigading or trolling, so they don't have reporters' backs when they're targeted by the angry right wing manbaby club
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) April 7, 2022
the next decade desperately requires newsrooms and editorial leadership that fully understands the perils of bad faith authoritarian online propaganda or we are collectively and eminently fucked, for lack of a more technical term
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) April 7, 2022
BONUS appearance, from a vintage blog chewtoy, Megan McArgleBargle!
That whole thread is hilarious for several reasons, not the least of which is the only reason she has a "career" (besides mommy and daddy of course) is due to firing off dipshit hot takes on the internet
— Mike Black (@MikeBlack114) April 7, 2022
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