That senior editors from prominent newspapers, one being the New York Times, lost their jobs this past week after they were accused of being insufficiently subservient to the outrage mob shouldn’t be much of a shock.
This kind of thing is normal in America now, and the Wall Street Journal has caught on to the trend of what it called “cancel culture journalism.” In a Monday editorial, the paper wrote:
“On matters deemed sacrosanct — and today that includes the view that America is root-and-branch racist — there is no room for debate. You must admit your failure to appreciate this orthodoxy and do penance, or you will not survive in the job.”
That’s in essence the thesis of my book, Privileged Victims, but what the Wall Street Journal missed is that the media haven’t suddenly fallen prey to social justice, the driving force behind all of this. As with academia, Hollywood, the publishing industry, and the Democratic Party, the media helped build it.
The media, perhaps chief among them, are what pushed social justice on all of us.
When they wrongly accused a group of white, MAGA hat-wearing high school students of taunting an American Indian, that was in the name of social justice.
When they hysterically warned about the “rise of white supremacy” by pushing some cooked up study by the Anti-Defamation League, that was in the name of social justice.
When they lied about the number of illegal immigrants pouring over the Southern border, included among them violent criminals, that was in the name of social justice.
The liberal media are no longer in business to report current affairs. They’re in the business of pushing a moral cause. Any actual news that comes out of it is purely incidental, a byproduct, an optional side dish.
The two editors who just saw their careers go cliff diving aren’t really victims after seeing their profession “dominated” by social justice. They’re more like the husk of dead skin that comes off of a snake that’s molting. It’s the nature of the movement taking its course.
