Ben Shapiro was the guest author of the Politico Playbook today, and — let’s just say it caused some internal strife:
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:https://t.co/dVg69gWBup pic.twitter.com/i4ua37Ch53
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) January 14, 2021
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." pic.twitter.com/NZ3HQQIMCr
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 14, 2021
Apparently the internal backlash was so intense that Politico’s editor-in-chief decided to hash everything out in a conference call:
Politico's EIC just announced a 3pm call with the newsroom, presumably to address today's complaints https://t.co/EfKAf0s9ah
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 14, 2021
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.
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 14, 2021
Wow, the unapproved thought that was expressed in Playbook this morning apparently caused some triggering:
I think we can unironically call these sorts of people "snowflakes." https://t.co/YsK8I5jRBR
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) January 14, 2021
"You can't sit with us." https://t.co/trmFZh09Or
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 14, 2021
People seriously can’t handle Politico publishing an opposing view. Come on. https://t.co/IqqDpyc9CJ
— Rohit ☘️ ? (@RBidenism) January 14, 2021
The blowback is also fairly telling:
the best part about this, is that politico employees are literally proving Shapiro's point in Playbook ? https://t.co/ujQ6mCQ1iW
— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) January 14, 2021
And Shapiro pointed that out perfectly:
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 https://t.co/fndRTncKwy
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 14, 2021
Some Politico personnel couldn’t have helped make Shapiro’s point any better!
when you hire toddlers in the newsroom, this is what you get
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) January 14, 2021
These babies need to grow up https://t.co/rZgshyZH8v
— Kevin Boyd (@TheKevinBoyd) January 14, 2021
Politico being in disarray because there viewers can’t handle a different opinion is hilarious. https://t.co/QmjNFo6AiQ
— miles??♂️ (@milessonline) January 14, 2021
Journalists are delicate https://t.co/RV0t71avof
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) January 14, 2021
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. https://t.co/rzXmi579nY
— Chris Hartline (@ChrisHartline) January 14, 2021
We expected nothing less from today’s “journalism” culture.
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