PART 18 - AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS: BIASED MEDIA CONCERNS, BARI WEISS, WHOOPI GOLDBERG AND PEPE LEPEW, JOHN CLEESE HANDLES THE WOKE MOB, BON APPETIT, NY TIMES, ERIC KAUFMAN

One of our most popular series here at Everything Croton.....and now more follow-up ARTICLES....

#1 -If you’re wondering why so many distrust the media, a recent Associated Press story about Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a good place to start. In recounting the number of politicians calling on him to resign, the AP wrote:

The escalating political crisis has spawned an impeachment inquiry in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, and threatens to cast a cloud over President Joe Biden’s early days in office. Republicans have seized on the scandal to try to distract from Biden’s success tackling the coronavirus pandemic and challenge his party’s well-established advantage with female voters.

This isn’t an opinion piece, or even one of those disingenuously labeled “analysis” stories. This is a news story. One in which the writers inserted a biased, factually incorrect paragraph. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/an-example-of-how-biased-media-shapes-opinion/

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#2 -FOR THOSE FOLLOWING BARI WEISS...The Miseducation of America's Elites...Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret.

This feature ran earlier today in City Journal. Here it is in full, with thanks to City Journal for allowing the reprint:  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls. They are usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools, but now they come together to strategize. They say that they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking. MORE AT  https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites

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#3 -WHOOPI GOLBERG AND PEPE LEPEW--you can't make this stuff up https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-cancel-culture-madness-continues_10.html

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#4 -They're coming for Monty Python!  John Cleese and the woke mob. To the reader who asked, you had the wrong link; it's this one https://www.theblaze.com/news/john-cleese-takes-on-woke-mob?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

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#5 -THE BON APPETIT MADNESS, NY TIMES--EXCERPT---one of the very few New York Times stories I have enjoyed in decades---now if only the Times would heed some of the content.... 

Woke Me When It’s Over

In the humorless world of Woke, the satire is never funny and the statute of limitations never expires, even when it comes to hamantaschen.

Excerpt: Behold in this little story, dear reader, the apotheosis of Woke.  No transgression of sensitivities is so trivial that it will not invite a moralizing rebuke on social media.  No cultural tradition is so innocuous that it needn’t be protected from the slightest criticism, at least if the critic has the wrong ethnic pedigree.  No writer is so innocent that she should be spared from having her spouse’s alleged failings trotted out to suggest discrimination-by-association.

And no charge of cultural insensitivity is so far-fetched that it won’t force a magazine into self-abasing self-expurgation.  MORE AT https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/opinion/bon-appetit-cancel-culture.html

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#7 From the fabulous RICK KAUFMAN: The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data 

Academia has become a closed system, a moral community defined by a set of sacred progressive values. The surge of no-platformings which took off in America in 2015 and hit Britain in 2018–19, or the fivefold jump in the rate of cancelling American academics which took place in 2019, present merely the tip of an iceberg of self-censorship and conformity. In this essay, I present extensive new survey data on the scale of the problem in the US, Canada, and Britain from my new report for the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology entitled “Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship.” This leads, at the end, into a discussion of policy solutions, where I argue that only government intervention can break the spiral of conformity gripping the contemporary university. The British government’s recent policy white paper on academic freedom, which adopted most of the recommendations of my previous co-authored report, “Academic Freedom in the UK,” is a blueprint that other jurisdictions are invited to follow. My current report represents an expansion of the UK report to encompass North America, where the situation is arguably even more pressing. READ MORE AT QUILETTE.

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SEE THE LAST EDITION--PART 17--OF THIS SERIES--AT  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/part-17-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html