What story?
The significant feature of the recent NYT story is not that the culture there has become so extreme. You'd expect that, as they continue to veer to the left. It's that the management no longer make hiring and firing decisions. Power belongs to whoever shouts the loudest.
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moderates have been forced out. e.g. Bari Weiss, etc.
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I wouldn’t characterize the executives/editors of the NYT as left. It feels like they’ll go whichever way the wind blows. They’re certainly of the margin in some way but it’s hard to figure out how to describe it. Maybe coked up NY socialite meets an incompetent middle manager?
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It's the woke ideology of both private and public sector bureaucracies. The divide and conquer techniques of the ruling classes have been institutionalised.
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Nassim Taleb's concept of the intolerant minority proved right yet again...
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This is applicable universally. Even when the idea or tech is good. Bitcoin is an example (good tech, intolerant people) - only held and talked about a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the world who keep harassing the rest of the world as being stupid.
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Perhaps management shouldn’t have an autocratic role; they should be judged on the astuteness of their decisions.
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when organisations go into decline, serious people leave, but the organisation still remains, for a while, as a host, overrun by privileged activists (also applies to theatre and art galleries).
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The NYT isn't in decline though. Subscriptions have shot up to 7.5m, a rise of 2.3m year-on-year. Its authority is firmly entrenched: their journalists define the Overton Window for the rest of the media.
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One of the things I've sadly realized over the last several years: for as much posturing as folks do about speaking truth to power r having the conviction to stand up when right, most of us are moral cowards, preferring a crowded reassuring anonymity over true independent thought
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but I feel a change is coming. Founders like 
and action behind their promises. Eternal optimist here! I’d like to believe my generation (30+ not millennials ) are the driving forceLoading seems to be taking a while.
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