<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-evidence-do-you-have-chris-wallace-throws-down-with-nikole-hannah-jones-on-cnn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, the creator of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1619-project-writer-demanded-40k-for-45-minute-speech-busting-librarys-budget/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1619 Project</a>, raked in big bucks from dozens of colleges last year giving speeches condemning America and shaming her audiences for belonging to “one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world,” according to pay records examined by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>.
Some 33 speeches Hannah-Jones made in 2022 netted her an estimated payday of more than $1.2 million, according to a Daily Wire analysis. Twenty-seven of those speeches were made at colleges, including 14 at public schools, for an estimated $1 million. The Daily Wire&#8217;s estimate is based on records from 11 schools which responded to Freedom of Information requests and showed payments averaging $40,000 each.
The $1.2 million figure likely significantly understates the total since the list of speeches is incomplete and private institutions may have paid Hanah-Jones even more than the typical $40,000 fee forked over by public schools.
For some, she collected tens of thousands of dollars without having to leave the house. For example, the Cleveland Public Library paid her $20,000 for a Zoom lecture on November 19. Others included perks like first-class airfare.
The $1.2 million in speaking fees could pay for a year of tuition for 175 students at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/community-college-pays-the-cost-of-20-students-tuition-for-celeb-diversity-lectures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Rapids Community College</a>, where Hannah-Jones spoke in January for $25,000, paid through a combination of school and private funds. In 2021, a parents group faulted the Oregon Department of Education for using funds intended to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/10/oregon-yanks-money-from-struggling-students-program-to-pay-nikole-hannah-jones-for-lectures-on-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">benefit the neediest</a> to pay Hannah-Jones $50,000, amounting to $14,000 an hour.
The 1619 Project was a 2019 series in the New York Times Magazine that posited that anti-black racism has shaped every facet of American society. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historians-shred-nyt-1619-project-claiming-slavery-defines-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Historians</a> across the political spectrum have said it contains serious factual errors, including the premise that &#8220;one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.&#8221;
Hannah-Jones is half-white and half-black and was raised in Iowa. She has become wealthy by writing about the oppression of blacks in America, with speeches just one of many concurrent sources of revenue.
In July Hannah-Jones received $75,000 not to work at the University of North Carolina as part of a legal settlement. UNC offered her a job as a professor, but the board of trustees delayed granting her tenure before eventually agreeing to it. Hannah-Jones claimed racism and threatened to sue, and turned down the job after tenure was offered.
On top of the hefty speaking fees, many of the speeches serve as an opportunity to sell books. According to BookScan figures, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones/1139222389?ean=9780593230572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1619 Project: An Origin Story</a> has sold 456,000 copies, which under industry standards could work out to $2 million in royalties. (It’s unknown how much of the royalties go to Hannah-Jones versus the New York Times.)
In September, Hannah-Jones gave a talk as part of an Arlington, Virginia, library program&#8211;where her books were also sold&#8211;whose $40,000 price tag caused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1619-project-writer-demanded-40k-for-45-minute-speech-busting-librarys-budget" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget problems</a> for a library group.
In 2020, Hannah-Jones inked a deal with Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate to develop 1619 &#8220;into an expansive portfolio of feature films, television series and other content,&#8221; including a <a href="https://www.nytco.com/press/1619-hulu-january/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hulu series</a> that will premier this month.
Hannah-Jones &#8220;will serve as the creative leader and producer in developing feature films, television series, documentaries, unscripted programming and other forms of entertainment enlisting world-class Black creative voices to help adapt her celebrated series chronicling the ways that the original sin of slavery in America still permeates all aspects of our society today,&#8221; a press release <a href="https://www.nytco.com/press/global-media-leader-entrepreneur-oprah-winfrey-and-lionsgate-join-forces-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-nikole-hannah-jones-and-the-new-york-times-to-adapt-the-acclaimed-1619-project-into-a/">said</a>.
The MacArthur Foundation has also showered her with cash for years, giving her a <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598/201813199349100836/IRS990PF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$625,000</a> &#8220;genius grant&#8221; that was paid in the form of $125,000 per year from 2017 to 2021, according to nonprofit filings.
In 2021, the Knight Foundation donated <a href="https://communications.howard.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$5 million</a> to Howard University to create a job for her there, the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Other donors shelled out <a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-create-center-help-educate-next-generation-black-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$20 million</a>&#8211;including $5 million from MacArthur&#8211;to Howard University to bring Hannah-Jones on as its &#8220;Knight Chair in Race and Journalism,&#8221; alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates. That tasked Hannah-Jones with creating the Center for Journalism &amp; Democracy at Howard University, a “first-of-its-kind academic center committed to strengthening historically-informed, pro-democracy journalism.” The Center held its <a href="https://cfjd.howard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first event</a>, a &#8220;Democracy Summit,&#8221; on Nov. 15.
It’s unclear how Hannah-Jones manages to serve Howard while juggling so many other projects. Hannah-Jones still <a href="https://nikolehannahjones.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refers</a> to herself as a New York Times Magazine writer, but her <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/nikole-hannah-jones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">byline page</a> at the Times has shown little activity in recent years. She did not return a request for comment.
On her personal <a href="https://nikolehannahjones.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">web page</a>, the banner quote blares: &#8220;I see my work as forcing us to confront our hypocrisy.&#8221;
The list of speeches is:
<ul>
<li>1/19/2022: Union League Club of Chicago</li>
<li>1/21/2022: Metro State University-Denver (via Zoom) $25,000</li>
<li>1/25/2022: University of Wisconsin $55,000</li>
<li>1/16/2022: University of Buffalo</li>
<li>1/31/2022: Grand Rapids Community College $25,000</li>
<li>2/1/2022: Fordham University</li>
<li>2/9/2022: University of Houston (via Zoom)</li>
<li>3/15/2022: Notre Dame</li>
<li>3/22/2022: Southern Methodist University</li>
<li>3/23/2022: Macalester College (via Zoom)</li>
<li>3/25/2022: University of Lynchburg</li>
<li>3/30/2022: U-Conn $36,500</li>
<li>4/1/2022: SUNY-Brockport $50,000</li>
<li>4/15/2022: Dartmouth</li>
<li>4/26/2022: Colby College</li>
<li>5/3/2022: University of Maryland $40,500</li>
<li>5/5/2022: St Johns University</li>
<li>5/17/2022: Rutgers</li>
<li>5/21/2022: NC A&amp;T State U</li>
<li>9/20/2022: Arlington, VA library $40,000</li>
<li>9/24/2022: The Links Inc (via Zoom)</li>
<li>9/27/2022: Sarah Lawrence University</li>
<li>10/11/2022: Lehigh University</li>
<li>10/13/2022: Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis</li>
<li>10/20/2022: Indiana University</li>
<li>10/27/2022: Northern Illinois University (via Zoom) $30,000</li>
<li>10/28/2022: Syracuse University</li>
<li>11/2/2022: Iowa State University $38,000</li>
<li>11/7/2022: French Embassy</li>
<li>11/18/2022: Newark Public Library</li>
<li>11/19/2022: Cleveland Library (via Zoom) $20,000</li>
<li>11/20/2022: Howard University School of Law / Pulitzer Center</li>
<li>12/6/2022: University of Minnesota $50,000</li>
</ul>

The Grio Awards 2022 – Red Carpet

1619 Project Creator Raked In $1M+ Last Year For College Speeches On Inequality

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) didn&#8217;t do a single interview with a liberal news outlet during his campaign last year for governor &#8212; and he won in a landslide.
Now, with DeSantis being mentioned often as a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, outlets like The New York Times have got their undies in a wad over the diss.
&#8220;Although he courted right-wing podcasters and conservative Fox News hosts, Mr. DeSantis did not grant an extensive interview to a national nonpartisan news organization during his 2022 re-election bid — and he coasted to victory, with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire now promoting him as a 2024 contender,&#8221; the paper wrote on Tuesday.
In a piece <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230111065852/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/business/media/ron-desantis-media-journalists.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headlined</a> &#8220;Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?&#8221; &#8212; spoiler alert: the answer is yes &#8212; the whiny author told an anecdote about how DeSantis operates.
&#8220;Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News reporter, found himself stymied. The governor would not grant him an interview. Aides barred him from some campaign events and interrupted his conversations with supporters,&#8221; author Michael M. Grynbaum wrote.
&#8220;When Mr. Cohen was finally able to ask a question about the governor’s handling of Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis shouted him down — &#8216;Stop, stop, stop&#8217; — and scolded the media for &#8216;trying to cast aspersions.&#8217; The DeSantis campaign then taunted Mr. Cohen on Twitter, prompting a torrent of online vitriol.&#8221;
But, of course, it&#8217;s clear that the Times would never give DeSantis a fair shake, so why should he bother to sit with them for an interview? While avid newshounds have known for decades that America&#8217;s &#8220;paper of record&#8221; is widely liberal, former President Donald Trump exposed the Times once and for all for the hard-left rag that it is.
DeSantis has avoided other heavily biased outlets and shows. When a producer for &#8220;The View&#8221; emailed an invite for him to chat with hardcore liberals Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, he simply said, &#8220;nuh uh.&#8221;
Instead, he sat for an interview with Will Witt, the 26-year-old founder of the Florida Standard, a conservative website that launched only a few days before.
Witt, who garnered a strong following as a young conservative pundit with the nonprofit video producer PragerU, praised DeSantis. “It&#8217;s so nice when you have someone who recognizes what you&#8217;re doing and really appreciates it,” he <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2022/desantis-press-favorite-outlets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Semafor.
DeSantis hasn&#8217;t gone as far as former President Trump, who often called the media the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; But he also hasn&#8217;t gone easy on them, either.
After a massive hurricane hit Fort Myers, Florida, last year, he accused the press of rooting for it to strike Tampa.
”Quite frankly, you have national regime media that they wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that that’d be worse for Florida. That’s how these people think,” DeSantis said during the <a href="https://youtu.be/tWtNWmtJsDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Florida Voice, another conservative outlet.
“They don’t care about the people of this state. They don’t care about this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda,” he said. “If they can use it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it.”
Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for DeSantis, confirmed the governor’s beliefs in an <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3678541-desantis-steps-up-attacks-on-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email</a> to The Hill.
“Governor DeSantis is absolutely correct in his assertion: many people in the media have shamefully capitalized on the tragedy of Hurricane Ian to push their political agenda,&#8221; Griffin said.
There&#8217;s an awful lot of time before the 2024 elections, and liberal outlets will be more demanding. But DeSantis should stick to his guns &#8212; and he should certainly skip any debate held by a liberal network.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

US-VOTE-ELECTION-FLORIDA-DESANTIS

Liberal Media Incensed That Gov. DeSantis Won’t Play Their Little Game

Liberal Media Incensed That Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Won't Play Their Little Game

Media Bias

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Ron DeSantis

Top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> political reporter Blake Hounshell passed away unexpectedly this week after a long battle with depression, according to his family. He was 44 years old.
&#8220;It is with great sorrow that we have to inform you that Blake has suddenly died this morning after a long and courageous battle with depression,&#8221; his family said in a statement. &#8220;His wife, Sandy, and two children are in our thoughts and prayers, and ask for respect and privacy at this time.&#8221;
Hounshell started working in the media at Foreign Policy magazine after &#8220;working at a human rights and democracy think tank in Cairo and studying Arabic,&#8221; The Washington Post reported. He went on to become an influential figure at Politico and The New York Times.
The Times <a href="https://twitter.com/liamstack/status/1612904118065963012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement:
<blockquote>We are deeply saddened to share the tragic news that our colleague Blake Hounshell has passed away. Many of us worked closely alongside Blake since he joined The Times in 2021.
Blake was a dedicated journalist who quickly distinguished himself as our lead politics newsletter writer and a gifted observer of our country&#8217;s political scene.
He became an indispensable and always insightful voice in the report during a busy election cycle. Blake was devoted to his family and a friend of many on our politics and Washington teams, who have worked alongside him for many years.</blockquote>
Hounshell reportedly died after he jumped from the Taft Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C.
Hounshell was born in California and was raised on the East Coast. He attended Yale where he studied political science.
He moved to the Middle East after 9/11 so he could understand Islamic terrorism, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/10/blake-hounshell-remembrance-beloved-journalist-00077366" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. He later worked at a human rights and democracy think tank in Egypt where he met his future wife Sandy Choi.
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The 2021 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 2

Top New York Times Journalist Dies At 44 After Battling Depression

New York

Suicide

U.S.

New York Times reporter Michael Shear cornered White House Press Secretary <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/who-exactly-thinks-the-president-is-doing-a-good-job-on-inflation-peter-doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> and National Security Council spokesman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oh-please-brian-kilmeade-cant-hold-back-when-john-kirby-tries-to-spin-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-great-success/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kirby</a> — during a Friday briefing — about the administration&#8217;s handling of the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Shear pointed out the fact that humanitarian groups have sounded more alarms about the Biden administration&#8217;s treatment of migrants than they did when former President Donald Trump was in the White House.
WATCH:
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Reporter: Groups are calling Biden’s border policy a “humanitarian disgrace.”
Biden Spokesman John Kirby: “Obviously we take a different view.” <a href="https://t.co/851VxA9V7x">pic.twitter.com/851VxA9V7x</a>
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&#8220;I spent a long time covering immigration stuff during the Trump years. I — I never saw more damning quotes from immigration advocacy groups and human rights groups during the Trump years than — as I saw yesterday towards this administration,&#8221; Shear began.
Shear went on to read a quote from the head of a refugee group, quoting her as saying that the Biden administration&#8217;s most recent immigration policies amounted to &#8220;a humanitarian disgrace&#8221; — and he said that she was far from the only one who felt that way.
&#8220;That was echoed across the board in literally scores of emails I got from every humanitarian group,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;What do you all — what does the administration say to the overwhelming consensus from people who advocate on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees and migrants that what the president did yesterday was &#8216;a humanitarian disgrace&#8217;?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, obviously, we take a different view,&#8221; Kirby objected, arguing that Biden was attempting to strike a balance between allowing refugees to safely enter the United States and encouraging legal immigration while also curtailing illegal immigration and making sure that the border was secure.
A bit later in the briefing, Jean-Pierre called Shear out directly — and he pushed the issue again.
&#8220;The advocacy folks and the community of people who are lawyers and advocates and humanitarian experts, what they would say is the president is using the tools, and he’s using them in a harsh and unbalanced way,&#8221; Shear said, going on to note that the end result was that the Biden administration was likely to face lawsuits from those advocacy groups in much the same way that the Trump administration had.
&#8220;And they — you know, lawsuits are going to be filed in the same way that lawsuits, you know, were filed against the Trump administration over and over and over again about their immigration policies. But, you know — this time, it’ll be against you guys,&#8221; he continued.
Pointing back to the 2020 presidential campaign, when Biden spent much of his time explaining all the ways that he would set himself apart from Trump — particularly when it came to immigration — Shear noted that going down the same road put the administration &#8220;in a really awkward place&#8221; going forward.
&#8220;I — I have to say, Michael, I take — look, I understand what you’re saying. But I do take — you know, I do take issue with comparing us to Donald Trump, who —&#8221; Jean-Pierre objected.
Shear protested: &#8220;It’s not me. I’m just — I’m —&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, no — no, I know you are the messenger, and you are giving me the information,&#8221; Jean Pierre replied, adding, &#8220;I am responding to what you just said, which is: You’re talking about an administration who had a policy — right? — that tore babies away from their moms, from their parents, from their families. That was the president’s — President — the last administration — that president’s philosophy or policies. And that’s what they did. And this is not this president.&#8221;

White House Briefing Held By Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

‘I Never Saw More Damning Quotes’: NYT Reporter Scolds Biden Officials For Treating Migrants Worse Than Trump Did

NYT Reporter Scolds Biden Officials For Treating Migrants Worse Than Trump Did

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The left-wing media learned a lot in 2022, even if it was all stuff the rest of us already knew.
Two years after local officials closed schools, grieving family members weren’t allowed to say goodbye to their loved ones at in-person funerals, businesses were forced to temporarily close their doors — many of them for good — and Americans were generally forbidden from congregating outside of large groups, the press in recent weeks has come to an unexpected conclusion: Fighting each other over COVID is probably counter-productive.
“<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty</a>” exhorted an October 31 headline in The Atlantic, a call whose temerity was only matched by the gall of its flipside from 2020. Back then, of course, the prevailing line from the mainstream media was that Dr. Fauci’s COVID pronouncements were to be followed to the letter and that there was no legitimate alternative path — until, that is, the doctor decides to change his mind, and woe betide the man or woman who asks to see the receipts.
It should come as no surprise that 2022, all things considered, was as chock-a-block as each year always is with examples of The Fourth Estate beclowning itself. Few if any of the year’s media fails, though, arguably came with a greater lack of self-awareness than that one from The Atlantic, calling on us all to basically hug out the COVID fights.
“Dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop,” the writer of the piece declared. “Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty.”
Yes, of course: The mistakes of history. Deep uncertainty, and complicated choices — like the choice to use one’s position as a public health professional to declare on CNN that the unvaccinated <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2107/08/cnr.10.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">should not be allowed to leave their homes</a>. The idea of pandemic amnesty sounds straightforward enough, until you stop to remind yourself that “complicated choices” are one thing — but you unilaterally declaring my livelihood and personal liberty subservient to your real-time experiment amid all that uncertainty is something else entirely.
That kind of years-late turnabout, long after the damage has already been done, was just one in what’s been a lengthy series of gaffes, errors, and outright fails that characterize 2022’s Year in Media.
We also saw that same phenomenon, by the way, manifest itself in more than just coverage of the pandemic. Like in the way the mainstream media was glaringly late to the party regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop — long after widespread coverage of the story might have made a difference in the 2020 election.
Just ahead of the 2020 election, remember, Facebook throttled any and all mention of the laptop story across its social media empire. Outlets like CNN and The Washington Post either refused to cover the news or played it down, while Twitter went even farther — taking the extraordinary step of refusing to let users share any links to news coverage about the laptop at all, even within the confines of private messages from one user to another. Twitter also temporarily locked <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/kayleigh-mcenany-locked-out-of-twitter-for-sharing-posts-hunter-biden-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the then-White House press secretary</a> out of her account for trying to disseminate a news article about the laptop.
Fast-forward to 2022, with a brash and anti-woke new owner now in charge of Twitter — and Twitter’s former head of safety Yoel Roth was now (surprise!) feeling compelled to declare Twitter’s ban on the laptop story <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/yoel-roth-twitter-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-mistake-2022-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a mistake</a>. Indeed, what CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter panned at the time as a “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/10/18/new-york-post-hunter-biden-stelter-rs-sot-vpx-biz-dupe.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">manufactured crisis</a>” somehow — two years later, long after it mattered most — became “<a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/cnns-brian-stelter-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-not-just-a-right-wing-media-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not just a right-wing media story</a>” anymore. Outlets like CBS News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times likewise, at various times this year, also finally <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-hunters-laptop-is-real-but-only-to-protect-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed on the legitimacy</a> of the so-called &#8216;laptop from hell.&#8217;
2022, it seems, has also been the year of national legacy media deciding to declare the Hunter Biden laptop story amnesty, too.
To put it simply, this has been not only a year of the news media getting things wrong, as usual. When it comes to some of the biggest stories of our time, the profession also has an increasingly frequent habit of fighting alternatives that don’t fit the master narrative by plugging its ears, waiting an extended period of time, and then begrudgingly acknowledging the obvious after a consequence-free pivot.
Of course, there were plenty of other clear-cut and outright fails, too. Among the most egregious of 2022:
1) Headline: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/senior-us-intelligence-official-russian-missiles-crossed-nato-93346632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people</a>
What really happened: For many experts, this has been the nightmare scenario of the Ukraine war — A provocation against a third-party nation that requires a response from allies and pulls other nations around the world into the conflict. In this case, the truth was that an errant Ukrainian missile landed in Poland, the AP’s “anonymous sources” notwithstanding. WWIII averted, and the guilty reporter fired.
2) Headline: <a style="font-weight: 400;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/business/media/cnn-plus-streaming-news.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Can CNN’s Hiring Spree Get People to Pay for Streaming News?</a>
What really happened: CNN’s delusion that a critical mass of subscribers would pay for its content in a standalone app a la Netflix went up in flames — and much faster than even the most negative critics anticipated. Moreover, the question in that NYT headline is premised on a fundamental misunderstanding about cable news audiences. They already are paying to get an extra fix of news and lifestyle content … from Fox, via its Fox Nation app. CNN’s troubles, meanwhile, are a formidable combination of secular decline and audiences not keen on buying what they’re selling. Go woke, and your streaming service goes broke.
3) Headline: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/12/03/musks-twitter-files-internal-hunter-biden-debate-revealed-with-much-hype-but-no-bombshells/?sh=2d63ff587ea6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’: Internal Hunter Biden Debate Revealed With Much Hype But No Bombshells</a>
What really happened: Are you kidding me? No bombshell revelations in the Twitter files? How about the then-head of Trust and Safety at Twitter meeting weekly with the FBI, DHS, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — as if Twitter was a subsidiary of the national security state? Or Twitter being paid millions of dollars by the FBI to suppress tweets and accounts at the bureau’s request? This is a company that espoused democratizing speech while policing it, that shadow-banned and suppressed conservatives — and straight-up kicked people off the service during the early days of COVID over statements that eventually become conventional wisdom. But, sure — no bombshells.
4) Headline: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/crime-rate-justice-republicans-2022-elections/671800/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What’s Really Going On With the Crime Rate?</a>
What really happened: There’s always been an obsession within the mainstream media to report on crime patterns with all the binary nuance of a sports match — the numbers are up, then they’re down. At the moment, the picture is especially dire out of cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, though the post-midterm coverage engaged in a bit of chest-thumping over it all: See? Republicans tried to make you think we’re in the midst of a crime wave, but they still lost — so they were obviously wrong!
The fact of the matter, though, is that the reality of crime has much less to do with statistics than the mainstream media would have you believe. If city leaders in Los Angeles took a victory lap over there being just one murder in the city over the course of the year, but that murder victim happened to be your grandmother, what do you care that crime is “down”?
This obsession over statistics to fit a narrative completely misses the reality that normal people live with in the country’s biggest crime-ridden cities. We all understand that crime will always be a part of life, but there is an increasing sense that leaders in a position to do something about it are exacerbating the evil that threatens lives and livelihoods.

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Media Fails Of 2022: A Look Back At A Year’s Worth Of Gaffes And Flubs

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Democratic megadonor George Soros will pay journalists anywhere from $63,000 to $85,000 to advance progressive criminal justice reform.
Soros is offering media fellowships, or “Soros Justice Fellowships,” through his nonprofit: the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Fellows must produce projects that align with Soros’ goals of reducing incarceration rates and sentencing guidelines.
Media fellowships last 12 months, with the expectation that fellows make the projects their full-time work. Up to three people may apply jointly for a single fellowship.
Journalists aren’t the only ones eligible for these <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships?current=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fellowships</a>. OSF offers three distinct categories of fellowship funding — advocacy, media, and youth activism — which may pay up to six figures, according to <a href="https://onsa.asu.edu/scholarship/soros-justice-fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholarship data</a> provided to universities. These categories qualify a wide variety of professions such as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, artists, and filmmakers.
As The Daily Wire has reported over the years, Soros Justice Fellowship alums have made headlines for their activism — this includes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lapd-will-not-seek-charges-against-some-people-it-arrests-instead-taking-them-to-social-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark-Anthony Johnson</a>, longtime ally of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-jail-system-host-voter-jeffrey-cawood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Burton</a>, founder of the criminal justice reform activist group, A New Way of Life (ANWOL).
The fellowship program isn’t new — Soros has offered this funding for over 25 years. Since the program’s inception, a total of 469 individuals have received fellowships. Most of the earliest fellows involved in media went on to become acclaimed journalists across a variety of major legacy outlets.
The following are current fellows involved in mainstream media, out of 18 total fellows for 2022:
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<li>Yasmine Arrington, of Washington, D.C., will produce a podcast featuring only “Black and brown youth voices” discussing the criminal justice system, including juvenile probation, reentry, and recidivism. Arrington has written for TeenVogue, Essence, Black Enterprise, Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, and Baltimore Times.</li>
<li>Zachary Siegel, of Chicago, Illinois, will write and narrate news coverage concerning current approaches to overdose deaths. Siegel has written for Harper’s Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, New Republic, WIRED, Politico, and Scientific American.</li>
<li>Irene Franco Rubio, a Phoenix, Arizona, native attending the University of Southern California, will produce a podcast on juvenile minority incarceration and their criminalization in public school systems. Franco Rubio has written for Forbes, USA Today, Teen Vogue, and NPR, as well as worked for Michelle Obama’s nonprofit. Franco Rubio was recognized as a scholar by a number of prominent groups: Facebook Journalism Project, Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Equal Voice News, International Center for Journalists, and ProPublica Diversity.</li>
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Several current fellowships went to budding journalist-activists:
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<li>Tiera Howleit, a student reporter at Indiana University’s collegiate paper. Howleit’s fellowship profile says that she will use the funds to “elevate the voices of people of color [&#8230;] impacted by the criminal justice system.” Howleit founded “Black Collegians” in 2020, a social justice advocacy group.</li>
<li>Katherine Owojori, a pre-law student at USC, will work with Franco Rubio to produce the above-mentioned podcast. Owojori is an active member of Black Lives Matter: Los Angeles.</li>
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Past fellows involved in mainstream media, in the order in which their fellowship was awarded:
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<li>Cloee Cooper &#8211; PBS, The John Oliver Show, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Politico, Nevada Public Radio, Spectrum TV</li>
<li>Contessa Gayles &#8211; CNN, VICE, PBS Frontline, CBS, Wired, Al Jazeera, Vox</li>
<li>Lam Thuy Vo &#8211; Buzzfeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, NPR, ProPublica, The Guardian, The New York Times, ESPN</li>
<li>May Jeong &#8211; Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Intercept</li>
<li>Shanita Hubbard &#8211; The New York Times, HuffPost, Essence Magazine, Fusion, The Root</li>
<li>Cynthia Greenlee &#8211; The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vox, Self, Harper’s Bazaar, The Counter, American Prospect, Dissent, Ebony, Elle, Longreads, Salon, Smithsonian</li>
<li>Donovan Ramsey &#8211; The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Ebony, GQ, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Essence</li>
<li>Jenni Monet &#8211; The Guardian, Yes! Magazine, Los Angeles Times, PBS, Al Jazeera, Indian Country Today, Columbia Journalism Review</li>
<li>Julieta Martinelli &#8211; Futuro Media, Nashville Public Radio, CBS, Real Atlanta Magazine, Gwinnett Daily Post</li>
<li>James Kilgore &#8211; Medium, WIRED Magazine, Al Jazeera, Salon</li>
<li>Katie Rose Quandt &#8211; The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, Slate, Mother Jones, Brooklyn Magazine, America Magazine</li>
<li>Ebony Underwood &#8211; Huffington Post, Vibe, USA Today, The Appeal, Vibe, Mic</li>
<li>Isaac Bailey &#8211; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, Esquire, CNN, Nieman Reports</li>
<li>Nick August-Perna &#8211; National Geographic, PBS, HBO, Vox, Vice</li>
<li>Judith Levine &#8211; Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Vogue, Mother Jones, The Nation, Boston Review, Salon</li>
<li>Maia Szalavitz &#8211; The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Elle, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, NPR</li>
<li>Alisa Roth &#8211; NPR, CBS, PRI’s The World, Marketplace, The New York Times, Business Week, Nation</li>
<li>Mark Obbie &#8211; The Atlantic, The Trace, Politico, The New York Times, The American Lawyer, Texas Lawyer, Houston Post, Pacific Standard, Inc. Magazine, Slate</li>
<li>Osagie Obasogie &#8211; The New York Times, Slate, Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Scientist</li>
<li>Seth Freed Wessler &#8211; Associated Press, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, NPR, NBC, This American Life, Elle, PRI’s The World</li>
<li>Luis Trelles &#8211; NPR</li>
<li>James Ridgeway &#8211; Mother Jones, The Economist, Parade, Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera</li>
<li>Jean Casella &#8211; Mother Jones, The Guardian, Solitary Watch, The Appeal, Al Jazeera, The Nation</li>
<li>Joel Medina &#8211; Huffington Post, Univision</li>
<li>Erin Siegal &#8211; The New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker</li>
<li>Jonah Engle &#8211; The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands International, Deutsche Welle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Nation Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Denver Post, Haitian Times</li>
<li>Lisa Riordan Seville &#8211; NBC News, The Crime Report, The Nation, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, Salon</li>
<li>Hannah Rappleye &#8211; The Wall Street Journal, Mail &amp; Guardian, The Nation, City Limits, The Crime Report, Salon.com, MSNBC</li>
<li>Chandra Thomas Whitfield &#8211; People, Essence, Ebony, The American Prospect, The Guardian, HuffPost, NBC News, NPR, U.S. News &amp; World Report, Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, Time, Newsweek, The Root</li>
<li>Petra Bartosiewicz &#8211; Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Nation, New York Magazine, Texas Observer, This American Life</li>
<li>Amanda Crawford &#8211; Boston Globe, Businessweek, National Geographic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, Arizona Republic, Baltimore Sun</li>
<li>Jesse Wegman &#8211; The New York Times, Reuters, Daily Beast, Newsweek, New York Observer</li>
<li>Renee Feltz &#8211; Democracy Now!, The Intercept, The New York Times, Texas Observer, PBS</li>
<li>Stokely Baksh &#8211; New Republic, Forbes, Mother Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Marketwatch, PBS, The Nation, Al Jazeera</li>
<li>Jessica Pupovac &#8211; PBS, NPR, WBEZ Chicago, The Chicago Journal</li>
<li>Nancy Mullane &#8211; NPR, American Public Media</li>
<li>Patrice Gaines &#8211; The Washington Post, NPR, Washington Informer, Yahoo News, NBC News, Yes! Magazine, New York Times, Essence</li>
<li>Jennifer Thompson-Cannino &#8211; The New York Times, Durham-Herald Sun, Tallahassee Democrat</li>
<li>Erin Torneo &#8211; Cosmopolitan, Variety, Independent, indieWIRE</li>
<li>JoAnn Mar &#8211; NPR, Voice of America, Pacifica Radio, CBS Radio, KALW-FM</li>
<li>Jonathan Mahler &#8211; The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, HuffPost, MSN, CNBC, Yahoo</li>
<li>Laura Mansnerus &#8211; The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, MSN, The Boston Globe, Business Standard, Tampa Bay Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</li>
<li>Paul Butler &#8211; MSNBC, NBC News, Nature, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Yahoo, People</li>
<li>Susan Koch &#8211; ABC, NBC, HBO, PBS, MTV, Discovery Channel, National Geographic</li>
<li>David Dent &#8211; The Daily Beast, PBS, HuffPost</li>
<li>Emily Bazelon &#8211; New York Times Magazine, Business Insider, HuffPost, MSN, The Independent, The Washington Post, ABC News, The Atlantic, Yahoo, Miami Herald, Vogue, RealClear Politics, Slate</li>
<li>Mary Beth Pfeiffer &#8211; Forbes, HuffPost, Scientific American, The Globe and Mail, The Hill, Newsday, RealClear Politics, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</li>
<li>Steve Liss &#8211; Time, PBS</li>
<li>Amy Bach &#8211; New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Nation, Slate</li>
<li>Elizabeth Amon &#8211; Bloomberg News, The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Imprint</li>
<li>Nathan Blakeslee &#8211; Texas Monthly, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Houston Chronicle, The Texas Observer</li>
<li>Robin Mejia &#8211; The Washington Post, Science, Mother Jones, LA Times, CNN</li>
<li>Slawomir Grunberg &#8211; PBS, HBO, ABC, NBC</li>
<li>Tyrone Turner &#8211; National Geographic, NPR, DCist</li>
<li>Brenda Kenneally &#8211; New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine</li>
<li>Jan Goodwin &#8211; New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie-Claire, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal</li>
<li>Sara Cantania &#8211; Los Angeles Times, Reuters</li>
<li>Adrian LeBlanc &#8211; Seventeen Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire</li>
<li>Alden Loury &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ-FM, The Chicago Reporter, WVIK-FM</li>
<li>John Biewen &#8211; NPR, American RadioWorks</li>
<li>Sasha Abramsky &#8211; The Nation, American Prospect, The Daily Beast, Columbia Journalism Review, The Atlantic, HuffPost, San Francisco Weekly, The Guardian, Mother Jones, New York Magazine</li>
<li>Andrew Lichtenstein &#8211; Yahoo, Business Insider, MSN, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera, The New Republic</li>
<li>Dan Collison &#8211; Newsweek, NPR, Thomson Reuters Foundation</li>
<li>Eric Whitney &#8211; NPR, CNN, The Washington Post, WebMD, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New Jersey Public Radio</li>
<li>Nell Bernstein &#8211; The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Crime Report, The San Francisco Standard</li>
<li>Jennifer Gonnerman &#8211; The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Village Voice</li>
</ul>

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George Soros Funding Criminal Justice Reform Plants In Legacy Media

After The New York Times editorial board issued an opinion piece furiously condemning “ultrareligious and ultranationalist parties” that have gained more power in Israel, calling likely incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospective government a “significant threat to the future of Israel,” Netanyahu, who has been the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the Jewish state, fired back hard.
The Times published the editorial, titled, “The Ideal of Democracy in a Jewish State Is in Jeopardy,” on the Jewish Sabbath Saturday, claiming Netanyahu’s “coalition’s victory was narrow and cannot be seen as a broad mandate to make concessions to ultrareligious and ultranationalist parties that are putting the ideal of a democratic Jewish state in jeopardy.”
“After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incoming government,” Netanyahu blasted on Twitter.
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After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incoming government. <a href="https://t.co/CqqAoN7lSX">pic.twitter.com/CqqAoN7lSX</a>
&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1604595303230889991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Times did indeed bury the Holocaust so it didn&#8217;t make the front pages, as described in “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Times-Holocaust-Important-Newspaper/dp/0521607825">Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America&#8217;s Most Important Newspaper</a>.” In April 2019, the paper <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/why-does-the-new-york-times-incessantly-attack-israel/">published a cartoon</a> depicting former President Trump as a blind man wearing a skullcap while being led by Netanyahu, who was depicted as a dog on a leash with a Star of David collar.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs researched 107 editorials on Israel and Jews published in the Times since 2016; David Bernstein, president and CEO of the organization, accused the Times of “a decided institutional bias” against Israel. Roughly a decade ago, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) published a pamphlet titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Indicting-Israel-Coverage-Palestinian-Israeli-Conflict/dp/0966154878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1356533395&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=indicting+israel">Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict</a>,” that delineated the Times’ consistent bias against Israel.
In its editorial, the Times claimed that its editorial board had been a “strong supporter” of Israel for many years. It also championed its support for a two-state solution. Then it turned to vilifying Netanyahu:
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Mr. Netanyahu’s comeback as prime minister, a year and a half after he was ousted from office, can’t be divorced from the corruption allegations that have followed him. He is now doing everything he can to stay in power, by catering to the demands of the most extreme elements of Israeli politics.
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The paper noted that Netanyahu’s cabinet would include “radical far-right parties” that believe in expanding settlements in the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria, where most of the events of the Bible took place; “changing the status quo on the Temple Mount,” the holiest site in Judaism where Arabs routinely riot and Jews are in danger if they pray there, and “undermining the authority of the Israeli Supreme Court, thus freeing the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, to do whatever it wants, with little judicial restraint.” The leftist Supreme Court in Israel has maintained its vise-like grip on power because judges are allowed to pick their successors, preventing any conservative from ascending to power.
After demonizing incoming right-wing figures Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the Times threatened, “These moves are troubling, and America’s leaders should say so,” then cited a “cautious” speech by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the leftist anti-Israel group J Street without mentioning Blinken had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-secretary-of-state-urges-israels-allies-to-leverage-the-jewish-state/">urged</a> Israel&#8217;s allies to &#8220;leverage&#8221; the Jewish state.
Ironically, The Times, which had previously stated in the article that Netanyahu’s “coalition’s victory was narrow,” admitted, “Right-wing parties have an absolute <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/world/middleeast/israel-religious-zionism.html">majority</a> in the Knesset,” then quoted their own leftist columnist Thomas L. Friedman saying of the Israeli election results, “We are truly entering a dark tunnel.”
The Times advocated that the Biden administration interfere in domestic Israel affairs, suggesting “moderating forces &#8230; deserve support from the American public and from the Biden administration.”
Clinging to the idea that a two-state solution is a panacea that would solve all problems, the Times wrote that “the principle of someday achieving two states remains the bedrock of American and Israeli cooperation. &#8230; Anything that undermines Israel’s democratic ideals — whether outright annexation of Jewish settlements or legalization of illegal settlements and outposts — would undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.”

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New York Times Savages Netanyahu’s Incoming Government. Netanyahu Crushes Them.

New York Times Savages Netanyahu's Incoming Government. Netanyahu Crushes Them.

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The New York Times faced backlash over the weekend after many people thought the newspaper&#8217;s crossword puzzle layout resembled a Nazi swastika, which was made even worse because it was published at the beginning of Hanukkah.
The crossword was published by the newspaper on Sunday, generating a slew of criticism online.
Jewish author Magen Yehudi wrote on Twitter, &#8220;If you think it’s outrageous that the New York Times decided a swastika was a great idea for their crossword puzzle on the first day of Hanukkah, maybe you should remember that the next time you read their reports about Haredi yeshivot &amp; ponder whether there might be bias there.&#8221;
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For anyone claiming that it&#39;s a case of seeing something that&#39;s not there: <a href="https://t.co/gd4rtT3JHP">pic.twitter.com/gd4rtT3JHP</a>
&mdash; shevereshtus (@shevereshtus) <a href="https://twitter.com/shevereshtus/status/1604592939925180416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. &#8220;Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO.&#8221;
&#8220;Meanwhile, on the first night of Hanukkah the anti-Israel New York Slimes issues a crossword puzzle that looks like a swastika,&#8221; conservative radio host Mark Levin said. &#8220;Of course, when pointed out, they claimed it was a coincidence. What a sick and sad history.&#8221;
Blake Flayton, a writer at the Jewish Journal, tweeted, &#8220;Today’s New York Times crossword is um…making me nervous.&#8221;
&#8220;A not so subtle swastika in the NYT,&#8221; political commentator David Shor responded.
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A not so subtle swastika in the NYT: <a href="https://t.co/1pQs4LH5JO">https://t.co/1pQs4LH5JO</a>
&mdash; David Shor (@DYShor) <a href="https://twitter.com/DYShor/status/1604498242879848450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Other notable responses included:
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So has anyone at the NYT explained why they decided to do a crossword shaped like a swastika to coincide with the start of Hanukkah? <a href="https://t.co/evEE7XueQI">https://t.co/evEE7XueQI</a>
&mdash; AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1604604542229921792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah, so the NYT gives us a swastika crossword puzzle… <a href="https://t.co/WcShPWG83Z">https://t.co/WcShPWG83Z</a>
&mdash; Aaron Lavinsky (@ADLavinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/ADLavinsky/status/1604523367863767042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I know that the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> crossword wasn’t intentionally laid out as a swastika so I guess the sin here is bad editing. How did this get approved without somebody noticing? <a href="https://t.co/T8bCpID6TJ">pic.twitter.com/T8bCpID6TJ</a>
&mdash; Sam Sokol (@SamuelSokol) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamuelSokol/status/1604555674305925120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times faced intense backlash back in April 2019 after the newspaper’s international edition published an anti-Semitic cartoon that was widely condemned across the political spectrum. The newspaper was criticized again later in the day for failing to apologize in its initial response.
In an op-ed published in The Times, Bret Stephens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-ripped-anti-semitic-cartoon-non-apology-ryan-saavedra">criticized</a> his own newspaper at the time for promoting anti-Semitism.
“The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it,” Stephens wrote. “It did so in the form of a cartoon…in which a guide dog with a prideful countenance and the face of Benjamin Netanyahu leads a blind, fat Donald Trump wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke. Lest there be any doubt as to the identity of the dog-man, it wears a collar from which hangs a Star of David.”
“Here was an image that, in another age, might have been published in the pages of Der Stürmer,” Stephens added. “The Jew in the form of a dog. The small but wily Jew leading the dumb and trusting American. The hated Trump being Judaized with a skullcap. The nominal servant acting as the true master. The cartoon checked so many anti-Semitic boxes that the only thing missing was a dollar sign.”
“The image also had an obvious political message: Namely, that in the current administration, the United States follows wherever Israel wants to go,” Stephens added, noting that the message was false.
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On April 25, 2019 The New York Times published a story with a highly anti-Semitic cartoon picturing Israel PM Bibi Netanyahu as an animal with a Magen David leash held by US president Donald Trump. 
It&#39;s time for our generation to make sure that anti-Semitism is prevented. <a href="https://t.co/FosC7SprAS">pic.twitter.com/FosC7SprAS</a>
&mdash; Rudy Rochman (@rudy_rochman) <a href="https://twitter.com/rudy_rochman/status/1122172528930111489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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New York Times Slammed After Crossword Puzzle Resembles Swastika On Start Of Hanukkah

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> CEO Chris Licht says he has taken a “stunning” level of hate, mostly from the Left, since taking over the top job at CNN earlier this year.
Licht was named CNN’s chief in February and has since overhauled the company, scrapping its online streaming service CNN+ and laying off a slew of its most prominent personalities. Licht has done so in an attempt to remake the network into a more balanced news outlet that hosts a “rational conversation about polarizing issues” rather than largely catering to one side of the political aisle, Licht told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/media/chris-licht-cnn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Of the critics Licht has gained in his new post, he says the most “uniformed vitriol” comes from the left, the audience that CNN had tailored its message most for under previous leadership.
“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht told the Times. “Which proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.”
In his short tenure, Licht has let go of high-profile journalists, columnists, and contributors such as Brian Stelter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Harwood</a>, Jeffrey Toobin, and Chris Cillizza. Licht has also attempted to balance some of the network’s left-wing slant by bringing on Stephen Gutowski, founder of the firearms reporting site The Reload, as a contributor.
Licht has also moved around some of CNN’s lineup. He moved host Don Lemon out of a prime-time slot and into a morning show with two other cohosts. Licht attempted to move host Jake Tapper into former host Chris Cuomo’s prime-time slot, but Tapper’s tenure there proved to be short lived. Cuomo had been let go by the network months earlier, after an internal investigation reportedly concluded that the host had inappropriately attempted to help his brother, Andrew Cuomo, as the former New York governor was mired in scandal.
Licht said he did not want to make CNN into a “centrist” outlet by bringing on people like Gutowski. Instead, he wants to make the network more interesting through debates between well-informed people.
“This is not vanilla, centrist or boring,” he told the Times. “The change is we will not do Trump 24/7 or let him dictate our agenda.”
He expressed similar sentiments to The Financial Times weeks ago when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about his moved to cut partisanship out of CNN’s coverage.
“One of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,” Licht said. He said he is more interested in making an informative and interesting experience for the viewer than focusing on left and right politics.
“You have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don’t see it through a lens of left or right,” he added.

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Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D-PA), who often wears a hoodie and occasionally dons a suit, has been included in a list of America&#8217;s &#8220;most stylish&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/style/most-stylish-people.html">compiled</a> by The New York Times.
Really.
The entry for Fetterman, which included a picture of him wearing a baggy hoodie, knee-length shorts, and shoes with no socks, says simply: &#8220;The senator-elect from Pennsylvania is going to bring Carhartt to the Capitol.&#8221;
Yes, we had to look up what that meant. Turns out Carhartt, Inc. is an American clothing company founded in 1889 that makes heavy-duty work clothes like jackets, overalls, vests, jeans, and hunting apparel.
The Times explained its list, saying, &#8220;Love them or hate them, all have at least one thing in common. At some point over the past 12 months, they made us talk: about how we dress, how we live and how we choose to express ourselves. We welcome dissent. But we are, without a doubt, correct.&#8221;
The list of 93 people — and fictional characters, along with the James Webb deep-space telescope — includes all the typical entries, from Rihanna to Harry Styles to Kourtney Kardashian to Beyoncé.
Not surprisingly, there was some pushback on Fetterman&#8217;s inclusion on the list.
“How does @nytimes justify putting John Fetterman on the same list as the late Queen Elizabeth?” Sheridan Nolen, a staffer for Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, <a href="https://twitter.com/sheridannolen/status/1602320936107114502?s=20&amp;t=3CdiWrOeairTiL-j2091fQ">wrote</a> on Twitter.
“Total liberal bias, @nytimes⁩!” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/timburchett/status/1602330893955338242?s=20&amp;t=3CdiWrOeairTiL-j2091fQ">wrote</a> on Twitter tongue in cheek. “I not only have the best hair in Congress, but I brought [Carhartt⁩] to Capitol Hill four years ago.”
“What is ⁦@nytimes smoking?” <a href="https://twitter.com/nachamasol/status/1602352997006204928?s=20&amp;t=lEVn7PXakto4yk_FBDgG6w">asked</a> Nachama Soloveichik, a D.C. political consultant.
Author John Hawkins got in a good <a href="https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/1602370449823993873?s=20&amp;t=3CdiWrOeairTiL-j2091fQ">zinger</a>. “No one can possibly believe Fetterman is actually stylish. He dresses like someone who hangs out around a vape shop or convenience store all day.&#8221;
And social media influencer Ian Miles Cheong was able to <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1602352382830030849?s=20&amp;t=YCEZy_9YPU8bFuq7bQu3lQ">work in</a> the Word of the Year, as deemed by Oxford. “2022 is the year of the Goblin Mode. Dress up like a slob and make the NYT’s list of most stylish people,” he wrote.
There were a couple of other political people on the list, including &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).
&#8220;The Massachusetts congresswoman, who has alopecia and has worn her bare scalp with aplomb, this year co-sponsored the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), legislation that seeks to reframe the politics around everyone’s &#8216;crowning glory,'&#8221; the paper wrote.
Yes, this is what U.S. lawmakers spend their time doing as Americans struggle with sky-high inflation and soaring crime. So cute!
The list also included Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden. &#8220;The newest Supreme Court justice has brought statement necklaces to the Marble Palace,&#8221; whatever that means.
Democrats and liberals (duh) dominated the list, which also included New York Mayor Eric Adams, who the paper called the &#8220;Party Mayor&#8221; and said he was picked for his “impeccably tailored suits.&#8221;
Yup, that&#8217;s the most important thing. That&#8217;ll fix New York City.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">The New York Times</a> named Senator-Elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) as one of the “most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fashion">stylish</a>” people of 2022, and the internet has opinions about it.
The incoming senator certainly made headlines for his non-traditional look. Fetterman was known for playing up his “everyman” persona by always wearing hooded sweatshirts, Carhartt gear, and athletic shorts, even in formal situations.
The list <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/style/most-stylish-people.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson along with Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, and Representative Ayanna Pressly (D-MA). 
Their style influencer roundup also featured celebrities such as Rihanna, Ben Affleck, Timothée Chalamet, Lil Nas X, Anne Hathaway, and Brad Pitt. 
In total, the publication selected 93 people who had “captured our attention” in the past year. 
“Love them or hate them, all have at least one thing in common. At some point over the past 12 months, they made us talk: about how we dress, how we live and how we choose to express ourselves. We welcome dissent. But we are, without a doubt, correct,” the publication wrote of their selections. 
Reactions on the internet to the partially satirical list were mixed.
“Total liberal bias, [the New York Times]⁩!” Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) joked in a <a href="https://twitter.com/timburchett/status/1602330893955338242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>. “I not only have the best hair in Congress, but I brought [Carhartt⁩] to Capitol Hill four years ago.” 
“How does [the New York Times] justify putting John Fetterman on the same list as the late Queen Elizabeth? The senator-elect from Pennsylvania is going to bring Carhartt to the Capitol,&#8221; Sheriden Nolen, a staffer for Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, <a href="https://twitter.com/sheridannolen/status/1602320936107114502" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
“What is ⁦[the New York Times] smoking?” DC political consultant Nachama Soloveichik <a href="https://twitter.com/nachamasol/status/1602352997006204928?s=20&amp;t=lEVn7PXakto4yk_FBDgG6w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a>.
While some were amused by Fetterman’s inclusion on the list, others argued it represented the Left’s obsession with redefining previously established truths.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. This is stylish,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/kmele/status/1602338033025564675" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> alongside a photo of Fetterman decked out in his usual Carhatt jacket and shorts combo.
Others argued that this list could have easily been a satirical Babylon Bee “Most Stylish” article. 
Fetterman is also making a break in Hollywood. It was recently announced that the senator-elect will have a cameo in a Netflix film titled “The Pale Blue Eye” alongside actor Christian Bale. He was apparently chosen for the role because of his distinct look.
“John’s got this fantastic face. And so I said to [director Scott Cooper], ‘We’ve got to have him in the tavern. You got to have that face. That’s a face that fits in the 1830s, because a lot of faces don’t fit in the 1830s,’” Bale said, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/monday-afternoon-update-fetterman-has-a-face-for-movies-confederate-statue-comes-down-gigantic-caravan-crosses-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

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New York Times Declares John Fetterman One Of The ‘Most Stylish’ People Of 2022

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Legacy <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> outlets have been insisting for years that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> has not been covertly suppressing conservative accounts. After the release of the second iteration of the Twitter Files, the world learned that those outlets had been thoroughly duped, even as they sneered at conservatives for bemoaning the evident <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship</a>.
Journalist Bari Weiss <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> on Thursday evening that the social media company built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics without telling users. Former company bosses such as founder Jack Dorsey, chief executive Parag Agrawal, and head of legal Vijaya Gadde collaborated to censor multiple popular conservative accounts. The latter two executives were dismissed after <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> took over the company several weeks ago.
For years, however, Twitter executives had insisted that no such censorship had taken place. “People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not,” a blog <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> from 2018 co-authored by Gadde herself claimed. Dorsey answered with a simple “No” when <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1316537705023578115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by commentator Dave Rubin in 2020 whether the company shadow bans “based on political beliefs.”
The only entities which spread the outright lie more fervently than Twitter itself were legacy media outlets.
The New York Times claimed in a 2018 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/twitter-shadowbanning.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that the controversy over shadow banning was based on semantics, insisting that the practice only refers to algorithmically shutting down traffic due to the content on a given page. “Is Twitter shadow banning Republicans? No, it is not,” correspondent Liam Stack declared in reaction to an <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/43paqq/twitter-is-shadow-banning-prominent-republicans-like-the-rnc-chair-and-trump-jrs-spokesman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from Vice News which found that the platform limited search results when users looked for prominent conservatives on the platform. The Gray Lady then amplified a statement from Twitter provided to Vice — “As we have said before, we do not ‘shadowban’” — and mocked Republicans such as RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for feeling “vindicated” by the report.
The agent of the suppression was not an impersonal algorithm, but zealously censorious executives. Weiss found that some accounts, such as the one belonging to talk show host Dan Bongino, were <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slapped</a> with a “search blacklist.” Twitter likewise placed a “do not amplify” directive on the account of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Weiss determined that Twitter executives had also been playing semantic games, preferring the term “visibility filtering” to the more widespread term “shadow ban.”
Meanwhile, a similar <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/twitter-denies-conservative-shadow-banning-claims-alters-search/story?id=56841398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from ABC News said that “President Donald Trump seized upon the claim and contended that such a move constitutes illegal discrimination, even as the company and digital experts defended the platform and pointed to faults and misunderstandings in the story.” A third <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/twitter-is-not-shadow-banning-republicans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> from Intelligencer — simply entitled “Twitter Is Not ‘Shadow Banning’ Republicans” — argued that the notion of the shadow ban “has persisted among the conspiracy-minded, as a great weapon of censorship, generally thought to be perpetrated by liberal Silicon Valley operatives at the expense of conservatives.”
Another <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17620194/twitter-shadow-ban-trump-conservatives-search-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from The Verge contributing editor Casey Newton explicitly advised Twitter to “ignore the phony outrage” over shadow banning. “A consequence of covering the intersection of social media and democracy is that sometimes you wind up having to discuss things that are very dumb,” he wrote. “And yet how Twitter reacts to the attendant criticism could determine whether the company ever gets a handle on the abuse its platform is so well known for.”
An <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/tech/twitter-algorithm-political-rhetoric/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from CNN Business published in 2019 whined that Twitter had even increased the reach of “extreme political rhetoric” from conservative accounts, including Kirk, one of the influencers who was manually targeted by the platform’s executives, as revealed by Weiss.
“There is some irony to the amplification of these right-wing voices,” CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote. “Trump and other prominent Republicans have long accused Twitter of ‘shadow banning’ users with conservative viewpoints, an accusation Twitter has strongly denied. In reality, not only is Twitter not ‘shadow banning’ these right-wing personalities for their political viewpoints, the platform’s algorithm is actually amplifying some of their tweets to audiences who do not even follow their accounts.”

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