On PBS, Ex-NYT Reporter Pushes ‘Public Health Fascism,' Citing China

Clay Waters

There was much media angst over Donald Trump declaring he would be a dictator on “Day One” of a second term in office to promote border security and oil drilling. Scrape off the spicy language, and it sounds more like the standard executive orders every president issues upon taking office, as even a Trump-hostile PBS Amanpour & Co. guest admitted last week. Will the same press also cringe…

 

China Isn’t Winning. The West Is Forfeiting

Ben Shapiro

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with “symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.” That report followed hard on a series of investigative pieces from journalists such as Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil, formerly of The New York Times, who revived the media-…

 

Axed Reporter Fires 20,000-Word Shot at Treatment by NYT Woke Cowards

Clay Waters

After being kicked out of The New York Times newsroom after 45 years of service by woke mobs both inside and outside the paper, science reporter Donald McNeil has responded with force. In a comprehensive, four-part story clocking in at over 20,000 words on Medium, McNeil revealed The Times to be an institution of implacable cowardice in thrall to childish leftism as a response to his removal (…

 

The Woke Madness That’s Devouring the New York Times

Clay Waters

New York Times media columnist Ben Smith’s “Media Equation” column revealed more details regarding the ignominious ouster of veteran science reporter Donald McNeil, the paper’s coronavirus guru. Smith correctly saw symbolism in the story of an old-school liberal journalist being overthrown by young wokesters who disapprove of his supposed reactionary views and citing of the N-word when…

 

NYT Cancels Bret Stephens Column on Paper's Bungling of N-Word Scandal

Clay Waters

The “woke” meltdown at the New York Times continues apace. Bret Stephens, one of the few right-leaning columnists at the paper, is the latest victim of “cancellation,” or at least his latest column was. Stephens’ latest column was rejected by higher-ups at the paper. In it, Stephens excoriated his bosses and in particular Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger for the brouhaha around the internal…

 

New York Times Fires Reporter For Using Word It Used, Too — the N Word

Hans Bader

The New York Times has fired a prize-winning reporter, Donald McNeil, for asking about the context in which someone used the N word. As journalist Jesse Singal notes, “One of the most important coronavirus reporters on the planet” was forced out of “the Times because he used the N-word in the context of asking about a controversy involving the N-word.”

 

NY Times to Fauci: Did You Warn Trump He Was Going to Get You Killed?

Clay Waters

Monday’s New York Times hosted Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious disease expert, former coronavirus advisor to Donald Trump, and media darling, as he again unloaded on Trump: “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like.” Yet as the pandemic spread in early spring, Fauci insisted that the public shouldn't be wearing masks. He later admitted to conjuring up herd immunity numbers. Donald McNeil…

 

NY Times Defends 'Scapegoat' Communist China, Cuba on Disease Response

Clay Waters
The New York Times is quick to attack Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but readily defends Communist countries' ways of handling contagious diseases, as on the front of Sunday’s New York Times, “G.O.P. Aiming To Make China The Scapegoat – Bid to Shift Blame Off Trump for Response.” (A guilty party cannot be a “scapegoat,” and China is undeniably guilty.) The same edition…
 

NY Times in Denial: ‘WHO, Now Trump’s Scapegoat, Warned About Corona'

Clay Waters
The liberal New York Times can be relied on for knee-jerk defenses of any international organization, so the headline over a story about President Trump ordering the United States to defund the World Health Organization was unsurprising: “W.H.O., Now Trump’s Scapegoat, Warned About Coronavirus Early and Often -- The World Health Organization, always cautious, acted more forcefully and faster than…
 

NY Times Lauds WHO Against Trump, Quotes CCP Stooge's Criticism

Clay Waters
The New York Times defended the World Health Organization and pushed a Chinese Communist Party propagandist, all the while fighting Trump’s call to halt funding for the global health group. First up on Wednesday was W.H.O., under the heading of “Shifting Responsibility,” a story by Michael Shear and Donald McNeil. “Trump, Seeing Poll Numbers Drop, Blames W.H.O. for Virus Mistakes.” A nytimes.com…
 

So Much for Civil Liberties: Communist Cuba's Mandatory AIDS Quarantin

Clay Waters
New York Times "global health correspondent" Donald McNeil Jr. made a rare trip to Cuba and filed a report praising the Communist island's handling of the AIDS epidemic for Tuesday's "A Regime's Tight Grip on AIDS – In Cuba, rigorous testing, education, and free condoms help keep the epidemic in check." Conspiciously absent from that headline, especially for a newspaper that prides itself on…