For those who don't know Nelle Bowles, she is a former NY Times writer. She is married (I think married) to former NY Times writer Bari Weiss
She tells the story how she did a piece for NY Times about the aftermath of the Kenosha riots for business owners, how they were harmed. No one came to help them rebuild their burnt businesses, etc.
NY Times told her they couldn't publish until after the election.
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When I was at the New York Times, I went to Kenosha to see about this, and it turned out to be not true. The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered. Beyond the financial loss, small storefronts are quite meaningful to their owners and communities, which continuously baffles the Zoom-class.
Something odd happened with that story after I filed it. It didn’t run. It sat and sat.
Now it could be that the piece was just bad. I’ve sent in bad ones before, and I’ll do it again. A few weeks after I filed, an editor told me: The Times wouldn’t be able to run my Kenosha insurance debacle piece until after the 2020 election, so sorry."
My question is. Is this a nothing burger, or is this something that we should start to be more concerned about? I think the latter.
BTW, a plug here for Bari Weiss' substack. She is an exceptional journalist and writer. She was the one chased out of the NY Times for saying the Children have taken over.
She tells the story how she did a piece for NY Times about the aftermath of the Kenosha riots for business owners, how they were harmed. No one came to help them rebuild their burnt businesses, etc.
NY Times told her they couldn't publish until after the election.
"
When I was at the New York Times, I went to Kenosha to see about this, and it turned out to be not true. The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered. Beyond the financial loss, small storefronts are quite meaningful to their owners and communities, which continuously baffles the Zoom-class.
Something odd happened with that story after I filed it. It didn’t run. It sat and sat.
Now it could be that the piece was just bad. I’ve sent in bad ones before, and I’ll do it again. A few weeks after I filed, an editor told me: The Times wouldn’t be able to run my Kenosha insurance debacle piece until after the 2020 election, so sorry."
My question is. Is this a nothing burger, or is this something that we should start to be more concerned about? I think the latter.
BTW, a plug here for Bari Weiss' substack. She is an exceptional journalist and writer. She was the one chased out of the NY Times for saying the Children have taken over.
