http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/01/14/journalists-are-delicate-politico-editor-hosts-call-to-address-triggering-over-ben-shapiro-authoring-playbook-shapiro-responds/
Ben Shapiro was the guest author of the Politico Playbook today, and — let’s just say it caused some internal strife:
Max Tani ~ There's been some internal pushback to Ben Shapiro authorship of Playbook today. A few messages that were shared and upvoted in Politico's internal Slack today:
ErikWemple ~ Politico has released a statement on the backlash against using @benshapiro as a guest-writer for Playbook. It says, "we rise above partisanship and ideological warfare."
Apparently the internal backlash was so intense that Politico’s editor-in-chief decided to hash everything out in a conference call:
Brian Stelter ~ Politico's EIC just announced a 3pm call with the newsroom, presumably to address today's complaints.
And ya know what the Politico Editor-in-Chief should say at this meeting, Taterhead? He should say, "Thank you all for attending. I'll keep this brief. Anyone who is upset about Ben Shapiro having a turn to be Politico's Playbook guest-author-for-a-day is a whiny, sniveling lil' pussy. That's it ... now get back to work."
ErikWemple ~ There are now upwards of 225 people on the @politico Zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite @benshapiro to guest-write an edition of Playbook. People are very mad, I am hearing.
Wow, the unapproved thought that was expressed in Playbook this morning apparently caused some triggering:
Frank J. Fleming ~ I think we can unironically call these sorts of people "snowflakes."
Stephen L. Miller ~ "You can't sit with us."
Rohit ~ People seriously can’t handle Politico publishing an opposing view. Come on.
The blowback is also fairly telling:
Abigail Marone ~ The best part about this, is that politico employees are literally proving Shapiro's point in Playbook.
And Shapiro pointed that out perfectly:
Ben Shapiro ~ My point: conservatives believe that Leftists want to ostracize them as evil, and then shut them down.
Politico staff: conservatives ought to be ostracized as evil and then shut down.
Some Politico personnel couldn’t have helped make Shapiro’s point any better!
Ryan ~ When you hire toddlers in the newsroom, this is what you get.
Chuck Ross ~ Journalists are delicate.
Chris Hartline ~ It says everything you need to know about the state of media today that journalists are having a meltdown because Politico would DARE have one conservative guest-edit Playbook after having Chris Hayes and a cadre of liberal journalists guest-edit over the last few weeks.
We expected nothing less from today’s “journalism” culture.
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