WashPost in Woke Trouble, Says Woke New York Times

The headline in The New York Times was this: 

The Washington Post’s big plans are overshadowed by infighting

The aim of Sally Buzbee, The Post’s editor, is to broaden the newspaper’s reach. A year into the job, she’s dealing with internal tumult over some longstanding grievances.

Well isn’t this interesting? This is what the liberal, decidedly woke New York newspaper is looking for (chuckling). the woke woes that have lately swamped its liberal counterpart in the nation’s capital.

It Times story says, in part, this: 

“When Sally Buzbee joined The Washington Post A year ago, the newsroom she was able to take over doubled, now with more than 1000 journalists, under Jeff Bezos’ ownership. He bought it in 2013. Pulitzer Prizes were regularly awarded for its coverage.

Since then, the newspaper has grown steadily. The newspaper has also opened news centres in Seoul, London and other locations around the world to make it a more global 24-hour operation. It expanded coverage of technology, climate and personal health. This year, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to its reporting.

But Ms. Buzbee is now on the defensive, yet to completely win over the newsroom and facing internal strife that has eclipsed some of her bold plans.”

It Times goes on to reveal that “more than two dozen current and former Post staff members” quite willingly —  if anonymously —  spoke up to the Times about all the internal goings on at their own paper, the Post.

One of the most pressing problems in the 21st Century is the Post was how Post employees behaved online. Employees behaved online after an embarrassing incident in which David Weigel, a political reporter for the paper, retweeted comments made by liberals Times called “a sexist and homophobic joke.” In a sign of the times in which hypersensitive, woke leftists live, the Times reports that “Felicia Sonmez, another political reporter at The Post, tweeted: ‘Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!’”

What followed was a wildly narcissistic, woke skirmish in which  Weigel was suspended for a month, with Sonmez continuing to tweet her hurt feelings non-stop. According to reports, Times Buzbee, Fred Ryan and the editor. Post’s publisher:

“She said the newspaper unevenly punished journalists for what they wrote on Twitter, and critiqued her co-workers publicly. 

According to an insider, Ms. Buzbee and Mr. Ryan both agreed that she was the best option. To discuss the matter, they met with senior editors. Others suggested that there might be other options. The person stated that there was consensus on the fact that Ms. Sonmez needed to be fired.

The person stated that Ms. Buzbee intended to fire Ms. Sonmez next night, on June 9. However, Ms. Sonmez’s tweet early next morning changed the timeline. The termination letter sent by The Post accused her of ‘insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.’”

Hmmm. Hmmmm. This is the first time we have heard such a story.

Why? New York TimesYes, it is.

Remember this headline? New York Post in June of 2020. 

After the Tom Cotton Op-ed Fiasco, James Bennet, NY Times editor of editorial page, resigns

The “fiasco” was that the Times editor had approved an Op-Ed from Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton urging that the Insurrection Act of 1807 be invoked by President Trump to send in federal troops to the numerous American cities who were experiencing riots, burning, looting and general mayhem in the wake of the George Floyd killing.

A situation similar to that of the Washington Post’s current situation, all hell broke loose from the woke lefties who staffed the Times.

The New York Post (and it wasn’t alone) reported that episode this way: 

New York Times employees condemn publication of Tom Cotton’s op-ed

It NY Post Story as follows: 

“Dozens of New York TimesStaff members reacted furiously to the publication by the newspaper of an editorial from Republican Senator Tom Cotton in which he urged President Trump to order the US Military to stop violent protests across the country. 

…Nikole Hannah-Jones,The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to the following May: Times’ “1619 Project,” said on Twitter: “As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this.”

Charlie Warzel, who works on the newspaper’s opinion staff, posted: “i disagree with every word in that Tom Cotton op-ed and it does not reflect my values.”

Roxane Gay is an Advice Columnist for the Times Business Section. called Cotton’s op-ed “inflammatory” and said he was “endorsing military occupation as if the constitution didn’t exist.”

“As a NYT writer I absolutely stand in opposition to that Tom Cotton ‘editorial.’ We are well served by robust and ideologically diverse public discourse that includes radical, liberal, and conservative voices,” Gay said in another tweet.

The NewsGuild of New York, the union that represents many Times employees, released a statement claiming ‘Cotton’s Op-Ed pours gasoline on the fire’ and ‘promotes hate.’”

Cotton was the one who gave us the most positive response to this obsessive wakefulness. The Senator spoke in adult voice. Times staffers…: 

“…exposes the hypocrisy of all these woke progressives who claim to defend liberal values but as soon as they are presented with an opinion with which they disagree, they go into meltdown, they demand censorship, they refer to words as violence, they call for firings.”

Exactly.

What do we have? 

These are two major liberal newspapers that America has. They have a staff of narcissistic and immature employees, who managed to create a miserable environment at their jobs.

The latest case is amusing because it New York Times is running a story on the woke internals of the Washington Post When in reality, the exact same problem of waking up infects everyone Times itself.

Ya can’t make it up.