The New York Times goes insane in its ‘edit’ of the Ellen Pao Reddit resignation story.

(H/T: Instapundit) If you’ve ever wondered why the New York Times doesn’t have the same reputation that it used to, well, this is why.

https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/619902870805213184/photo/1

That’s not an update. That’s not even a revision. That is a story that has been scooped out of its URL and had a new one plopped in. One in which Ellen Pao stops being a contentious CEO who was eventually forced out over one too many disputes with Reddit’s core identity, and instead becomes a feminist martyr to corporate misogyny. I do not understand why Mike Isaac agreed to keep his name on the byline alongside of the addition of David Streitfeld’s: oh, wait, I do: it’s a tough job market out there.

Still. This isn’t your father’s New York Times. It’s certainly not objective journalism.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: I don’t use Reddit and I have no idea whether Ellen Pao is or is not as awful as they say.  Or indeed whether she is awful at all. But the language used by her defenders is wearily familiar.

PPS: There is just enough common material to both to indicate that the original story was dismembered to put the later ‘version’ in its place.

5 thoughts on “The New York Times goes insane in its ‘edit’ of the Ellen Pao Reddit resignation story.”

  1. at what point was the Times ever sane? certainly not in my lifetime, and i’m an old geezer….

    1. It is possible to be honestly insane ..
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      The Times has kept the crazy, but deep six’d the ethics, becoming mendacious maniacs…
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      Mew

  2. There is a special pit in Hell that has been made for “The Great Evil” Chairman Pao. I hope she lives a long and healthy life, because the afterlife will not be as kind to her.

  3. The editorial tone between the two versions is striking. By that I mean that the first, deleted, version was a bare “just the facts” recount of what happened at Reddit. The second was a slanted one-sided hit-job of an editorial that aggressively ignores the fact that the issue at hand was the firing of a *female* employee over her handling of a *Jesse Jackson* Ask-Me-Anything (AMA).

    Really, that stuff in green is no better than a (far) lesser diary entry at dKos that gets no links or comments.

  4. That is quite amazing. When they get caught out on things like this it wouldn’t ever get back to their readers anyway.

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