After he learned about the AP firing newly hired journalist Emily Wilder, supposedly for violating their social media policy, New York Times national politics reporter and CNN political analyst Astead Herndon couldn’t help but note that there seems to be a double standard when it comes to past activism (Wilder was a vocal pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist in college):
media is full of ppl who rebranded from open conservative activism. in fact they'll get jobs for that reason, pitching themselves as ~ideologically diverse~ in a supposedly liberal industry. same path doesn't exist for activist left https://t.co/54dlYx5S8K
— Astead (@AsteadWesley) May 21, 2021
Great point, Mr. Herndon. Or it would be, if it weren’t totally disingenuous. The path from activism to media doesn’t exist for the activist Left?
Please allow the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams to rebut Herndon’s claim:
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1395766652478894084
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1395792208931049474
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1395792270885072902
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1395792312484208642
And that’s just scratching the surface.
Van Jones anyone? Anyone??
— Andrea Caruso (@AndreaNRuth) May 21, 2021
Uh-huh, right pic.twitter.com/XdDhDdVXzs
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 21, 2021
Chris Matthews worked for Muskie, Carter and Tip O’Neill.
— Bob Bellafiore (@bbellafiore) May 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1395769976515186690
Fair. Otherwise we’d be here all day.
not to say that such a pathway shouldn't exist but just as those people should be judged on their work, same should apply to Wilder — and the rest of us
— Astead (@AsteadWesley) May 21, 2021
And we can only assume that by “the rest of us,” he means “media liberals.”
All those conservative activists…https://t.co/UDiKIBlDni
— Bob Jeffers (thinks Halloween is stupid) (@TuliusT) May 21, 2021
The Slack chats at Astead's own newspaper does not exactly suggest that elite media is full of conservative activists and hostile to those from the left.
— Robert Cecil (@LRobertCecil) May 21, 2021
Not really, no.
“Yes, but however the difference is, and I cannot stress this enough, is that it’s different when we do it.”
— A Newtonian Fluid (@asolarevent) May 21, 2021
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