Alex Marlow: Cancel the New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ for Disinformation
, I explain in detail that the
New York Times’ “1619 Project” was never an accurate historical account, but in fact it was a part of a concerted effort by the
Times to pivot the newsroom’s focus from the Trump/Russia collusion hoax to race hysteria.
I also argue that in our current “cancel culture” moment, the “1619 Project” easily meets the definition of “fake news” and fits the textbook definition of disinformation.
A brief summary:
After the Mueller Report, the New York Times was in trouble. The paper of record needed a replacement for RussiaGate, into which the
explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.
In 2017, after spending more than 13 years covering Iraq and China for The New York Times, Edward Wong returned to the United States and began teaching international reporting at Princeton University.
When he wasn’t filing articles about foreign policy and overseas events as a Times correspondent, he was trying to impart lessons from his experiences inside a war zone and the world’s largest authoritarian state. He also discovered that the students weren’t the only ones learning.
“Teaching the basics of journalism reminds me of what matters most in reporting and writing,” Mr. Wong said. “How to find compelling stories and tell them with truth and accuracy, how to ask the important questions, how to keep in mind a moral vision for our work.”
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A season of turnover
On Wednesday, Kim Godwin, an executive at CBS News, was named as the next president of ABC News, a rival network. She will replace James Goldston, and be the first Black woman to run a broadcast TV news division. As word of Godwin’s move went around, we also learned that Susan Zirinsky, her boss at CBS, would be stepping down. Zirinsky plans to stay at CBS in a production role, but she will be replaced atop the news division by two new hires Neeraj Khemlani, currently an executive at Hearst Newspapers, and Wendy McMahon, of ABC News. Between them, as the result of an internal restructuring, the two will oversee both news programming and local CBS TV stations. McMahon, who oversaw ABC’s local stations, was reported to have been in contention for the president job there; she and Godwin are now swapping companies. And McMahon was not the only high-profile leader to leave ABC News yesterday: Michael Corn, the senior executive producer of
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