The hunter becomes the hunted.
On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be leaving.
At my departure, I was the paper’s lead reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic. I had been at the Times since starting as a copy boy in 1976. […]
We make America what it is — without a free press, democracy dies. But we’re still jackals. We can befriend you for years, and then bite off your arm just as you’re offering us a treat. We can’t help it. It’s the nature of the job.
At the highest levels, like Watergate, it’s about digging for the truth, no matter what corrupt government official it hurts. At the basest level, when even the crummiest scandal erupts, you have to repeat the accusation, even if you know it’s untrue or half-true, in order to explain the truth — no matter how much you may personally like the source you’re hurting.
That’s the game. I’m somewhat relieved to be out of it.
It’s wordy. (h/t DrD – he “appeals for our sympathy having stepped on one of the mines in the ever shifting minefield he helped create”)
So this is how it works? Each time a person is assassinated by the Great Woke Leap Forward, the person then posts essays on medium about it? At least Bari Weiss didn’t grovel like this turd.
An ethical person would have left as soon as they became aware of the sewer of advocacy journalism that paid them to conform. An amoral person would stay on for 45 years until cancellation.
He explains and explains and still doesn’t understand that he was bargaining with a crocodile.
At what level should Darwinism intervene?
I favor a 3 strikes rule for crime as well. Once is blind trust, betrayed. Twice goes in with eyes wide open and is compassion and reaching out. Thrice or beyond is burned bridges.
Lord Of The Flies.
Any reporter that works for the NY Times and thinks that the Times has any integrity only has to look at the Walter Duranty coverage of the Stalin purges. The Times knew and still published the lies and participated in the coverup.
Work for vipers, expect to get bitten.
Even earlier than that. They’d see the NYTtimes served as the propagandists of genocide during the Holodomor.
He says he started at the NY Times in 1976 …he was let go in 2021, so he worked there for 45 years, FORTY FIVE YEARS!!!
Anybody here ever worked at the same place for FORTY FIVE YEARS?!? …and employment law gives him 2 weeks severance for every year worked so that’s a severance package of 90 weeks …NINETY WEEKS OF PAY FOR HIS SEVERANCE!!!
AND! HE! WANTS! OUR! SYMPATHY!!! Never under-estimate the capacity for pathetic whining by leftists.
Davers6….”whining by lefties” do they do any thing butt whine and bullshit?
Click the comments icon at the bottom of each “part,” He’s convincing very few people to side with him, even though non side with the NYTs. Most all are explaining to Don, that he himself are the cause of this. (seems he thought trashing Trump on “The Daily Show” and his “union Guild” would protect him and give him enough cred, not today)
So this guy has been a lying son of a bitch for 45 years, part of the great disinformation machine, slandering people, helping ruin lives. What does he want ? Sympaty?
Tuck Fim.
Look in the mirror and see you spent your life lying to your fellow citizens to make the wealthy and powerful more so.
Shame.
The inevitable painstorm is well deserved.
Karma is Conservative, baby.
So a liar, is let go by higher liars, soon the liar will land a job with bigger liars in print or broadcast to continue lying for the new liars. I’m not lying, good liars are in high demand in the world of the lying media. Karma or judgement day or whatever it is, always catches up to liars. I only wish these liars, be it politician or media would relate an honest account in print, or however, of what it felt like, that day, when they sold their souls, I would never want to find out in real time or go through it, but I would read about it because there must be some kind of transformational feeling or such they went through, like the black eye club or such.
McNeil claims he doesn’t know who leaked his words to the competition.
I’m sure he knows all right, but if he said upfront that he was an old white man of Christian ancestry sitting on a job someone wanted for his “diverse” fantasy in the flesh—and someone was looking for an excuse to fire McNeil with cause, well—McNeil clearly figured he should stop digging.
And, as his lawyers will have told him, God help McNeil if he names the guy who had it in for him.
45 years at the Grey Lady? Safe to say his days as a hack are over, and if PR were an option, he’d have left long ago. Wish Donald best of luck in his new career as a Whole Foods cashier. I dare say he’ll need plenty.
learn to code
“I’m accused of saying — that “racism is over,” that “white supremacy doesn’t exist,” or “white privilege doesn’t exist,” or that I defended the use of blackface or said horrible things about black teenagers in general.”
He’ll most likely die retarded, and on his knees.
I disagree. A useful idiot whose time has come. He’s seeing that what he was told was the future was actually a lie.
And that his tears won’t save him from the results.
I read about half of it before I gave up. What a pathetic diatribe. Like who gives a shit about some media liar that worked at the head liar paper for forty five years.
I read all four parts of that. It’s long and overly detailed, but interesting in that it gives an insiders view of being “cancelled” for expressing his opinions. Reading between the lines, the author (McNeil) is probably a bit full of himself and has made enemies at the Times, but the story is important because it points to a bigger cultural/social issue. Again and again, we are seeing people fired, ridiculed and condemned for expressing views that do not meet the current politically correct bench marks. No one deserves to be treated unfairly for honestly stating their views. In this case, he seems to have been attacked in part because the young people he was dealing with failed to grasp nuance and complexity. Sadly, more and more, the one-dimensional voices of uneducated youth and cancel culture cretins are coming to dominate public discourse. Those supposedly in a position to resist this McCarthy-like thuggery are knuckling under. There are more and more examples of people being shut down because their views do not meet the expectations of the mob. Sometimes people end up inadvertently saying the wrong thing — they are not forgiven (Stockwell Day is an example.) Sometimes they are baited and careless slip in a “thinking-out-loud” moment (Tom Flannagan). Sometimes they are targeted because others are envious of their success. Barbara Kay recently had an article on how this happened to Jessica Mulroney, and the woman accusing her seemed to use the incident as a stepping stone for her own career. Apologies are never good enough to make up for a single thoughtless statement. Margaret Wente and Bruce Bawer also have been victims of this thoughtless shunning of anyone saying anything controversial. Really it is getting very sinister out there. Things are very bad when newspapers and places of learning that should be promoting open discourse themselves become part of the problem. I think we should be condemning all of these pile-ons because anyone can be targeted at any time, and because the upshot is we are totally destroying public discourse and any opportunity to learn from other people’s views and experiences. I think some of the comments here miss the bigger picture.