Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, is under fire over these comments on the lack of women cover-story writers he gave in a new interview just posted to NiemanLab.org
Aside from being patently untrue it blows my mind that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic still doesn't know better than to say this out loud!!! https://t.co/2mt8C5WufV pic.twitter.com/EwJkSDuaZb
— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) June 6, 2019
Ooh, Jeffrey . . . you’re in trouble!
This is from an interview about how The Atlantic wants to diversify its writers & editors – but Goldberg doesn't seem to know that people other than white men write longform? https://t.co/OqyMgRxo4m
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) June 6, 2019
According to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, only white men seem capable of writing 10,000 word essays.
Sir, that’s a well articulated and argued thread on twitter on a Monday night for me. https://t.co/9naWO28oDk
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) June 6, 2019
INTERVIEWER: so jeff, i hear you are promoting a few women?
GOLDBERG: let me tell you something about journalism, little lady: men know many big words—and lots of them
— cale g weissman (@caleweissman) June 6, 2019
If Jeffrey Goldberg thinks there's a lack of women who can write 10k word features, then he's astonishingly ignorant about his peers & he should step aside for a woman to replace him. Immediately. I'm gobsmacked by this interview. Stunned. What an insult. https://t.co/MgG32E6WWS pic.twitter.com/uAZzxJnHWn
— Lisa Goldman (@lisang) June 6, 2019
Goldberg, who fired Kevin Williamson over his pro-life views, says he was misquoted:
How did these words cross your mind, much less escape your mouth?@JeffreyGoldberg: "It’s really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story. There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it. The journalists in America who do it are almost exclusively white males"
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) June 6, 2019
They didn’t. I told the reporter that many women haven’t been given the chance to write the 10,000 word stories. That’s what I’m trying to change.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) June 6, 2019
So you're saying they completely misquoted you? Have you asked for a correction?
— Christy Karras (@christykarras) June 6, 2019
Yes.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) June 6, 2019
Let’s go to the audio tape!
Surely someone taped this? @laurahazardowen
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) June 6, 2019
OK, we’ll see once the audio is released:
To be clear, I explained to Laura that the goal is to give women the chance to write the stories that white males have been traditionally allowed to write.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) June 6, 2019
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