#media-backlash

#media-backlash

Recently, New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat moderated a debate on the Interesting Times podcast between Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant, two conservative critics of modern feminism. The podcast received major blowback, starting with (but not ending with) the fact that the original headline of the conversation was "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" Quickly, after the predictable backlash hit, the headline was changed to "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?"

The new policy announced by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sparked immediate outrage from the Pentagon Press Association as an unprecedented message of intimidation, including the threat of criminal prosecution and the demand that reporters get approval from Department of Defense officials before publication. The vast majority of broadcast and cable news networks including conservative ones like Fox News and Newsmax voiced strong opposition to the new policy, issuing a statement that it was without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections

Reporting on a press conference in Utah on Tuesday, Gutman described text messages allegedly sent by suspect Tyler Robinson to his partner as very touching in a way that many of us didn't expect. The journalist went on to call the exchange a very intimate portrait into this relationship that he said highlighted the duality of the alleged killer, pointing to Robinson's repeated messages referring to his partner as my love.