Times accused of ethnic cleansing in its culture dept
mainAfro-American media say the New York Times has got rid of non-white personnel from its much-depleted culture department.
Departing are Metro reporter Kia Gregory, who is being laid off after arriving at the paper in 2012 from Philadelphia; longtime reporter Felicia R. Lee, the only black reporter in the Culture section, also being laid off; and Fletcher Roberts, the pop music editor, who is taking a buyout. All are African Americans.
In addition, Maria Newman, a senior editor in the food section, who is Latina, is taking a buyout.
The departure of the journalists of color from the Culture section — along with three members of the section’s support staff — comes three months after the Times was embarrassed by an uproar over an Arts & Leisure story by Alessandra Stanley that referred to TV producer Shonda Rhimes in connection with the stereotype of the “Angry Black Woman.”
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“last hired, first fired”
Time is in serious $$$ problems like a lot of the print media . This is not a story worth reporting about .
Oh, like the superb Kozinn, out after 37 years?
Oh the irony. You reap what you sow. And the Times being embarrassed over something? Not likely, they are incapable of it.
correlation ≠ causation
Their Sunday Times home delivery here in NY has also been crap lately. We’ve missed delivery 5 out of the last 7 weeks. Are they disintegrating?
Yes, they are disintegrating. After years of dishonesty, scandals and contempt for the country in which they publish, out with them, good riddance, may we never see their like again…
Afro-American is considered sort of derogatory. African-American or black are the terms. 🙂