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| Subject: Hypocritical New York Times Scolds 'Learn to Code' Taunts at Buzzfeed, But They Urged Coal Miners to Code Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:54 am | |
| New York Times reporter Jaclyn Peiser paid tribute to BuzzFeed on Friday in the wake of layoffs at the site infamous for quizzes and lists: “It’s Hardly the Stuff of a Playful BuzzFeed Quiz.”
It’s at least the second sympathetic Times story about the listicle specialists since they announced mass layoffs -- and again there was no reference to the meltdown on the “news” side of BuzzFeed, over the alleged scoop co-authored by disgraced journalist Jason Leopold, claiming that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had been directed by Trump to lie to Congress. But what made the article noteworthy were the final paragraphs, when Peiser tried to make the right wing the bad actor, by painting as sinister some mocking "advice" given to laid-off journalists on Twitter. - Quote :
- Over the last week, many of the laid-off BuzzFeeders found themselves the recipients of ugly messages and tweets sent by trolls and alt-right Twitter accounts. The messages included some variation of “learn to code,” images of nooses and insults. One message sent by email included death threats, NBC News reported.
“I believe there is a special, dedicated section of Hell just for people with anime twitter avatars who tell laid-off journalists to ‘learn to code,’” Patrick George, the editor in chief of the automotive site Jalopnik, said on Twitter. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2019/02/01/ny-times-blames-learn-code-mockery-trollsalt-right-skips-history
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