even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

so this whole ali watkins situation

Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms

Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html

I felt such a sense of deep embarrassment at just the headline, photo and caption that I couldn't read any further.

it gets worse

The Caligula stage of late capitalism is so fucking dull.

guyz she's buddies with julia allison and they co-emcee events together its 2006 all over again

do you think glenn thrush got a mentor pic.twitter.com/Mv60QaRkie

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 3, 2018

NYC is the most obliviously and proudly parochial place in the world pic.twitter.com/79hB4uDwp6

— Daniel Kay Hertz (@DanielKayHertz) July 14, 2018

Last Sunday they ran a one-page Your Five-Year Plan Before Retirement.

A key paragraph began, roughly, "Let's say you have $1.5 million in your 401k..."

the response to the quinn norton debacle has been kind of encouraging:

http://fortune.com/2018/07/23/susan-fowler-new-york-times/
https://www.nytco.com/sarah-jeong-joins-the-timess-editorial-board/

Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong. pic.twitter.com/WryIgbaoqg

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 2, 2018

jfc this newspaper is a lost cause

god forbid the Times actually do the right thing, which would be issue a statement that said, in full: "It's not possible to be racist against white people, you absolute chucklefucks."

I mean, white men are bullshit. wtf.

The cursor in the statement really adds to the earnest tone.

I thought the statement was fine

me too tbh

Especially since people land in fb jail for saying men/white people are trash but it's fine to threaten, dox or use slurs against minorities and women there. Was it cernovich and his minions enraging people about this?

I agree w/ evol that the statement is dumb. SJ did absolutely nothing wrong from what I can tell.

lmao I forgot she was the one who was involved with the Matt Bruenig/Demos fracas from whenever that happened

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong

What tone policing bullshit. Instead, the Times should have said gfy this is our hire, you can't shame us by accusing us of caring about equity because we refuse to consider it shameful and will say so, repeatedly, using all our communication skillsets. Instead of "We told this person who you hate and are sending death-threats to that she has been a very very bad girl, and will have to go to the time-out corner if she continues to tell the teachers that you threw rocks at her during recess. She knows better now, and you can throw all the rocks you want. You're welcome. Please read our newspaper please please please please"

^^^

the tweets were stupid (though obviously not 'racist'), the times statement is fine, and the verge article is otm. the times is doing the right thing by standing by her and everything is going to be ok

everything will be "ok" but the times doesn't get it, and that's a problem.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djn6gRvU0AArgws.jpg

few do

in orbit otm

The BBC News can fuck off with that Fox News headline.

ffs bbc

also ffs anyone who caves to trolls on this crap. also her tweets were funny and need no defense qed fuiud.

and yerac ohm if this entire sad little episode proves anything it's that white men are bullshit

lol thank u autocorrect. yerac OTM

k3vin otm

liberals really need to stop falling for this racism-baiting. 90% of the people yelling about this are not concerned about "racism," they are angry that they or people like them get called out for racism and are jumping at the chance to call "hypocrisy."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djwt_FLUwAACPJV.jpg

Excuse me what

Wait actually I do not care what

Every sentence in that is a mess.

writing an opinion column week after week for years isn't easy, but so many of ours seem so fucking dumb

please tell me that's from an op-ed generator

No countries with Airbnbs have ever gone to war with each other

jfc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkLc_C5X4AAR-Rw.jpg:small

airbnb is the new nato sounds like something that was conceived while conversing with an Uber driver on the way to the Maidan

CENTRISTS: confronting someone in a restaurant is so horrible, no one is polite anymore
ALSO CENTRISTS: hey everyone check out how awful my new coworker is

In what workplace is it customary to refrain from welcoming a new employee until they prove they deserve it?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/sarah-jeong-and-the-question-of-context

really appreciated this

(via jelani cobb)

Wtf, who is Elizabeth Williamson?

anyway...

love too remove the reporters bylines from the homepage while making the terrible oped section columnists more prominent

you cant just take their names off, man.. they're not the fucking ny yankees