New NYT Editor Takes Over What NY Mag Deems a Staff With Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

His knowledge is invaluable if you don’t already know. Poses that suggestive, but are creepy In a photo shoot New YorkJoseph Kahn has been appointed executive editor for the magazine. New York Times Dean Baquet is retiring and will be replaced by Kahn, the current editor. Kahn was the paper’s Beijing bureau chief in the 2000s, and won two Pulitzers for his reporting there. Since 2016, he has been the Managing Editor.

Times media reporters Michael Grynbaum and Jim Windolf outlined what Kahn was getting into, but left out some of the paper’s unflattering recent history. Coverage of Baquet’s tenure cartoonishly avoided the paper’s left-wing woke meltdowns of recent years and even suggested the paper was annoying liberals:

An award-winning podcast, “Caliphate,” was found to have fallen well short of the paper’s journalistic standards. In 2021, the reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. left under pressure after complaints about his use of a racist slur during a Times-sponsored trip for high school students. Newsroom staff called for more diversity in the workforce.. Some liberals have criticised the newspaper’s coverage of bias, which was a tradition for some conservatives.

Those “liberals” live mostly inside the newsroom, demonstrated by the staff’s meltdown over Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed on Black Lives Matter, and centrist opinion writer Bari Weiss’s fiery departure.

Both of those incidents were mentioned in the actual New York magazine Shawn McCreesh profiles Kahn, who was a clerk to Maureen Dowd for the four-year period. McCreesh was rather tough on his former employer and its leftward shift (unlike the bizarre suggestion in the Times‘s own story that the paper had drifted rightward).

McCreesh even used French Revolution and Maoist metaphors to describe the paper’s staff, and included a fuller account of the travesty over the firing of Donald McNeil — because who needs a veteran science reporter during a worldwide pandemic.

McCreesh explained the following:

The tumbrels didn’t stop there. Donald McNeil, a long-time science writer was fired last year for using the N word in an encounter that occurred many years ago. He used the phrase while sharing an anecdote from a trip on the camping trip with some rich children on a sponsored field trip to South America. Times….Left-wing media, enemies of the Times The spectacle was enjoyed by all. People were constantly being thrown out and important journalism was the only thing that anyone could focus on. A number of sub-groups made up of columnists and news reporters were emailed to Sulzberger in an attempt to beg him for help.

Someone who studied in China around this time commented on how similar everything seemed to an encounter during a Maoist struggle.. Kahn was that ever a resonance?

(Kahn answered in the negative.)

She Even torched The Times’s soft Hunter Biden coverage:

Its liberal staff and its subscriber base have been pulling the paper leftward.. It drew a fresh round of criticism recently after reporting in the 24th paragraph of a news story how it “authenticated” a cache of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop. This seemed to be a lot for the Times to be authenticating something everyone always knew was real, more than a year after barely touching the story at election time.)….

Near the end, Kahn defended the quest for “objectivity” in journalism, waxing poetic about how “the journalistic process needsTo be objective and transparent, and we need to challenge ourselves and our readers to understand all the facts and explore a wider range of perspectives.”

We’ll see.