I wanted to post on this because I'm always asking myself, what do these people in journalism do all day to keep their jobs? Like NBC News' "dystopia beat" reporter Ben Collins. He's very much online and has plenty of time to tweet, but do a search of NBC News' website for "Ben Collins," and you get maybe two or three hits a year … and some of those are just videos of him appearing on MSNBC. He apparently writes about whatever he wants to write about, whenever the mood strikes him.
The same goes for Nikole Hannah-Jones, the "journalist" behind the award-winning 1619 Project, which was a collection of essays that had groups of historians asking the paper to make corrections. Hannah-Jones has been riding the 1619 Project for years. Apparently, it would be a microaggression for the paper to ask her to write a story every now and then.
Mark Hemingway of RealClearInvestigation made a rare sighting this week — a piece in the New York Times written by Hannah-Jones:
Just want to note that Nikole Hannah-Jones published her first NYT piece in three years yesterday... and no one cares.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) March 14, 2024
It’s feels like 1,619 years since I’ve heard that name
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) March 14, 2024
I cared. I didn’t read it but I felt a little triggered just seeing it.
— Karen Orlando (@KarenFOrlando) March 14, 2024
So it's real … someone else witnessed it.
— Snieninenif (@StephenKro77734) March 14, 2024
Who?
— brian (@grubba10) March 14, 2024
Nicole who?
— Coach (@bingbob13) March 14, 2024
Who's she?
— Michelle (@1Sweetness34) March 14, 2024
I'm sure it has nothing to do with race. Probably on aid to Ukraine or something like that.
— Barnard (@Barnard178) March 14, 2024
I don't feel like clicking over to the New York Times to find out what it was about, but I'm amazed something happened that moved her to publish a piece.
I don't understand how actual journalists like Catherine Herridge get laid off while you have this celebrity class of "journalists" — Ben Collins, Taylor Lorenz, Nikole Hannah-Jones — who seemingly never report on anything.
I'm still not even sure this is real.
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