BuzzMachine blogger and journalism prof Jeff Jarvis decided to white knight for poor, sad, victim of all victims, Brian Stelter.
Don’t know Jeff? No big loss.
The only reason we do is that he was one of the whiny journos complaining about an evil t-shirt that said ‘Fake News’ in a gift shop at the Newseum. He and others (like Stelter) whined about said t-shirt so much the museum caved and got rid of it.
Which would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn sad.
This time, Jarvis set his sights on ‘Mr. and Mrs. New York Post Op-Ed Editor’:
In which Mr. & Mrs. New York Post Op-Ed Editor go apeshit on @brianstelter for interviewing @NYCMayor about the damage the Post & Fox do to American democracy: https://t.co/6vEc57ZZOr
+https://t.co/Zxa3Cvl8Og— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
Guess if you consider defending your employer and your spouse ‘going apesh*t’ …
Really dude?
No wonder this guy was triggered by a t-shirt.
I criticized @brianstelter's interview w/ @NYCMayor from a different perspective: He focused on challenging a pol vs. the big story: How Murdoch is the ruin of American democracy. I'm Brian's fan & sorry he's getting it from all sides. https://t.co/TmTsQUBsE9
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
ROFL.
He wants to make this about Murdoch. Adorbs.
Me on the @NYCMayor – @brianstelter interview & Murdoch:https://t.co/TmTsQUBsE9 pic.twitter.com/jp6YTm4WfR
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
Yawn.
And seriously, could this guy be any more sexist about Bethany Mandel?
er, Bethany is an established journalist in her own right Jeff.
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) August 13, 2018
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I apologize for not saying that Mr. Mandel and Ms. Mandel each went apeshit on Mr. Stelter.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
Classy.
The relationship is relevant in explaining them both going after Stelter.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
Wait, I have to be married to one of them (or someone who works at the Post) to explain why I think Stelter is a clown? You're a clown too, apparently.
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) August 13, 2018
Mrs. New York Post Op-Ed Editor: because it’s only cool to strip the agency from conservative women.
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) August 13, 2018
Gross. Women are only useful as a pawn for their husbands?
— Moty is a Jewish (@MotyRaven) August 13, 2018
Sexism to own the cons. Classy move Jeff.
— Kid in the Hall™️ (@Eradicator_NYC) August 13, 2018
Hey look! It’s the guy that went totally apesh*t over a t-shirt last week belittling a conservative woman this week on Twitter. Color me shocked.
— JenniferW (@JenWoodruff79) August 13, 2018
This is insulting to women. Bethany has a career outside her husband and referring to her as Mrs Editor is very Mad Men.
— commonsense (@commonsense258) August 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/DennyOtt1/status/1029004906894508033
Odd, maybe. But not surprising.
He did end up apologizing when Bethany Mandel called him out:
I’m actually a female person with an identity outside of my husband. I am not, in fact, “Mrs. Op-Ed Editor.”
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 13, 2018
Yes, of course. In that thread, the relationship is relevant, I would think. Each of you went after @brianstelter unfairly, I think. He pressed @NYCMayor more than I wanted him to. You both went after him nonetheless.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
I am actually a person in this industry outside of being married to a person in this industry. I am not Mrs. Op-Ed Editor.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 13, 2018
Of course, you are. I apologize. Considering how you each went after Stelter, I found the relationship quite relevant.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 13, 2018
I appreciate the apology, but all of conservative Twitter went after Stelter over that last night. Not just Mr. & Mrs. Op-Ed Editor.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 13, 2018
Bethany may well be our spirit animal.
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