The New York Times: The New Version Of Home Alone

Via America's Lawyer: NYT contributor Bari Weiss leaves the publication, blaming the outlet for performative journalism and a hive-mind mentality. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss caused a big stir last week when she suddenly resigned from the paper and accused them of being too woke to function. Joining me to talk about this topic is Farron Cousins, editor of the trial lawyer magazine. You know, I gotta tell you something I'm on her side on this one. It's just, this, this is becoming so disturbing. I describe, I describe the New York Times right now is a scene out of home alone. The kids are in charge. Experienced editors and journalists are shamed. They're, they're harassed if they really try to be journalists. Now she's got some other issues, but this woman was right. What she wrote about this paper is absolutely correct.

Well, you know, Weiss says that the, the opinion board a little too woke for her, and she did accuse them, you know, they, they, they've got this young way of thinking. But if you look at the New York Times editorial board for just the editorial, most of these folks are well into their golden years, or they're almost there. These are not a bunch of young kids. You know, if they're suffering from woke culture, it's just, I think decades of experience saying, hey, this is how the world is now. And, you know, maybe, ms. Weiss, wasn't, you know, evolving enough. But at the same time, the New York Times is garbage. Like she's right about that. They're a horrible paper. I just disagree with her on the reasons why.

It's, it's become total garbage, Farron.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, I was a journalism major at university of Florida. Very, I was news editing major. It's a tough major. You gotta work to make it through there. It used to be, we studied the New York Times and we'd say, well, this is how you, I wouldn't touch this newspaper right now. Look, let's back up on this story just a little bit. She there's no question, she had written some material about the rise of antisemitism, right? And they thought the, these, these kids, now you call them what you want. When you really look at who was pushing this agenda, might've been some old folks saying yes, because they didn't want to get harassed. They didn't want to get bullied. They didn't want to get intimidated by these home alone kids who are running the damn newspaper and it's become a train wreck. So, so she she's talking about the rise of antisemitism and some folks on there say, well, what about Palestine? You know, you're not treating the Palestinians, right. So they're critical of her. This mob mentality has taken place at the New York Times. Just like it has in media, across the world right now Farron.

Well, Bari Weiss though, on the other hand too, has a bit of thin skin. And she does have a history and this is evident in her Twitter feed, Glenn Greenwald has talked about it ad nauseum, anytime somebody criticizes her criticizes a point she makes, she immediately goes to that you're an anti-Semite. That is her fallback argument. She can't substantively argue her points.

I agree with that. I agree with that.

Which is a drawback. But again, at the same time, part of what makes these editorial boards great is that they present differing opinions. And if you don't like what one of them wrote, somebody's going to come along and write a counterpoint to it. That's the point of this part of the paper.

You, you, you, you had a great education.

Right.

You, you really did. You had a really solid education. Matter of fact, you came to work with me when you were what, 22, 21.

21, yeah.

21 years old. And I recognized back then you had a great solid education, and I'm sure you studied John Stuart Mills, just like I did.

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