Statements in Response to Criticism of the Hiring of Sarah Jeong to the Editorial Board in Opinion August 2, 2018
Statement from The New York Times
We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done covering the internet and technology at a range of respected publications.
Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers. She sees now that this approach only served to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media. She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it.
We had candid conversations with Sarah as part of our thorough vetting process, which included a review of her social media history. She understands that this type of rhetoric is not acceptable at The Times and we are confident that she will be an important voice for the editorial board moving forward.This message has been edited. Last edited by: wcb6092,
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
August 02, 2018, 02:55 PM
parabellum
Now it's done
August 02, 2018, 03:05 PM
wcb6092
Sorry I learned something new today. Won't happen again.
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August 02, 2018, 03:07 PM
18DAI
Im confused. I thought EVERYONE at the NY Times hated white people??? Just her??? Regards 18DAI
7+1 Rounds of hope and change
August 02, 2018, 03:18 PM
ChicagoSigMan
Funny how liberals get a pass for tweets or things they've written or said in the past, but conservatives who have any hint of a controversial statement in their past are burned at the stake.
It's also annoying that people like Ben Shapiro are out there defending the Times, saying the real conservative position is that they can hire whoever they want. Of course that's true, but does he have nothing to say about the double standard?
August 02, 2018, 03:19 PM
darthfuster
You know why I'm not offended? Because she is the miserable one. When her misery becomes predatory then I'll focus on her.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
August 02, 2018, 03:23 PM
kz1000
If it wasn't for old white people she'd be giving Happy Endings in a strip mall massage parlor...
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
August 02, 2018, 04:55 PM
drew3630
It's the New York Times. Is anyone surprised they have a double standard?
August 02, 2018, 05:44 PM
Surefire
NYT and Sarah got lit up this morning on Twitter. It was amusing, for sure, especially her defenders contorting themselves to somehow justify her "expressive anti-racist" tweets...
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August 02, 2018, 05:46 PM
GWbiker
quote:
Originally posted by kz1000: If it wasn't for old white people she'd be giving Happy Endings in a strip mall massage parlor...
She's South Korean.
I wonder if she's aware her Grandma probably was screwing American GI's for food money in the 1950's.
********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them".
August 02, 2018, 05:48 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan: Funny how liberals get a pass for tweets or things they've written or said in the past, but conservatives who have any hint of a controversial statement in their past are burned at the stake.
ala Sean Spicer and John Schnatter?
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 02, 2018, 05:48 PM
sdy
One more example of how far our society has degraded.
There was a time when expressing opinions like hers would have been a show stopper at any major news media.
Now we have been anesthetized to the point where this is tolerable to enough people to let it stand.
August 02, 2018, 08:22 PM
Rightwire
Nice to see that they take a solid stand against racism in all forms
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive.
August 02, 2018, 08:28 PM
bdylan
Our current crop of angry leftist 'journalist' have destroyed the integrity of all our formerly great news publications. This country doesn't really have a functioning 'news' media at this point.
August 02, 2018, 08:29 PM
justjoe
quote:
Originally posted by sdy: One more example of how far our society has degraded.
There was a time when expressing opinions like hers would have been a show stopper at any major news media.
Now we have been anesthetized to the point where this is tolerable to enough people to let it stand.
Regards 18DAI