Since parting ways with Vox, Matt Yglesias has more flexibility than he used to.
And more room to offer glimpses into life in Voxworld.
You’ll no doubt be shocked by what he has to say:
.@mattyglesias on "progressive catastrophism" https://t.co/4Sv47423Xv https://t.co/Nh7cCmd2Yp pic.twitter.com/Jp5LnqB5Eo
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) December 29, 2020
.@mattyglesias on resistance at Vox to an inconvenient truth:
“in late May, I ran into accidental intra-office controversy by pitching a piece about how police killings of African-Americans had become less common since Ferguson.” This idea was viewed “as dismissing the problem.” https://t.co/QrCXR3Kw80
— Will Saletan (@saletan) December 29, 2020
You don’t say!
Liberal Notices What We've Been Telling Him the Whole Time
— I got your #Unity right here (@jtLOL) December 29, 2020
Welcome to the party, pal.
"I'm sorry, but your hard data contradicts my personal anecdotal experience and is therefore harmful."
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 29, 2020
We never pegged Vox as truth-averse.
I kinda love the idea that Vox – a place built on the idea of controversial counterfactuals – shies away from this exact thing if the counterfactual will make "their" people big mad. https://t.co/MYw6gj92Fq
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 29, 2020
I'm shocked – SHOCKED! – that a place which started out as 'truth telling' became a progressive bastion of unscientific illusions and data-free journalism.
SHOCKED I TELL YOU. https://t.co/te2rbhVH2M
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 29, 2020
You the mean the people who tasked themselves with explaining things to us actually meant explaining only the facts they wanted us to have? My stars… https://t.co/LuApHkR0Wa
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 29, 2020
We feel so betrayed. So misled. Vox always seemed so trustworthy.
When Yglesias is the voice of reason, hoooo boy have you got yourself some tunnel vision https://t.co/haJQkC49pR
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) December 29, 2020
I will say this: Major kudos to @mattyglesias.
Its not easy telling hard truths about your 'team'.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 29, 2020
It’s not easy, no. But clearly Matt Yglesias has known for some time how Vox operates. It’s fair to assume that he contributed to that atmosphere.
No sympathy. He built this. It means you end up with Aaron Rupar as your arbiter of truth. https://t.co/YG6Un66CjT
— Nathan Wurtzel (((Slight Return))) (@NathanWurtzel) December 29, 2020
Hard to argue with that. Yglesias was evidently OK with feeding the monster while he thought he could control it. Once it got to big, he was powerless to stop it.
And the entire industry followed this model and here we are
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 29, 2020
Here we are.
