![]() ![]() Journalism encompasses so much, and there will always be someone tweeting dumb shit under it’s name. Ok, maybe we’re just trying to find “how” low the bell curve goes from the mean, but we already know it’s pretty god damn low based on the existence of Fox news. But I don’t think it’s useful to think about the lowness (or highness) of journalism just by looking at instances that really catch our attention (a natural kind of selection bias). I think the election proves the press hasn’t served us well recently. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I’d like to challenge you about the message embedded in this blog’s header. Sounds like a father to me a mother would be more likely to mention photographs of her daughters with their father, and would have asked how her daughter would respond if her father had asked her to pose in such a way. She said that she would have punched me into next week and called the police. I asked one of my own daughters today what she would have done had I told her, back when she was 14-15 (the age Ivanka appears to be in the pic) to pose with me like that. I’ve got a thousand photographs of me with my daughters – admittedly none posed like that one! – and I can guarantee that in none of those snaps are my children looking at me like Ivanka is looking at Donald. I keep using the gender neutral here, but if you read the piece and subsequent comments for comprehension rather than for ammunition you’d realise that ‘she’, as you insist on referring to them, is in fact a he.įrom the comments by the random stranger, whose ‘nym is Acolyte of Sagan: They analysed the picture pointing out all of the things that they would view as possible ‘tells’ of an abusive relationship based on their experience, and added the proviso that their current judgement may be clouded by previous experience. The random stranger claims experience of working closely with the social services and other child protection agencies in their capacity as an emergency foster carer, a role in which they dealt with many abused children. The ‘rapey parrot’ refers very clearly to the rapey concrete parrot that Trump is perched next to in the picture, the very sinister one that looks ready to pounce on the other concrete parrot. And Iofee, it seems, apologized only after she confected a notapology and then realized it wouldn’t stifle the critics. But this kind of smear is simply out of place for a professional and reputable journalist. It’s fine to report on Trump, investigate him, and, in op-eds, excoriate him. Frankly, that bothers me less than what I see happening to the press. Now Ioffe has apologized, so I’m not sure whether she should lose her job at The Atlantic, though I think many reputable places would have rescinded their offer. And imagine what would have happened if a journalist tweeted that Bill Clinton was “fucking his daughter”! The left-wing press would have bayed for blood. This does not presage an era of responsible journalism. It seems to be the case that when Trump goes low, it’s okay for journalists to go lower. These and the others are all, like Ioffe, professional journalists. ![]() Here’s some other specimens from writers: ![]() The rest support her, excuse what she said because of Trump’s own “lewd” remarks, excoriate Politico for firing her, and, amazingly say they share her sentiments in that tweet!. But no worries-Ioffe’s landed a job with The Atlantic:Īnd the latest development: 21 journalists have defended Ioffe, and only one even alludes to her tweet being reprehensible. The realization sank in further as she grasped what she had sent out to her 83,500 followers:Īlas, too late: as Snopes reports, Ioffe was fired from Politico. But she couldn’t quite get to a full apology: Shortly thereafter, Ioffe started realizing that maybe she said the wrong thing. Maybe that’s an appropriate tweet for a troll, but not for someone like Ioffe. I deplore Trump, but we gain nothing when journalists accuse him of incest. Now for a professional journalist, that’s a reprehensible thing to say. One of the Twitchy pieces is amusingly called “Finally, the wait for a pro journalist to imply there’s incest in the Trump family is over.” Indeed, for here’s Ioffe’s Fatal Tweet (now deleted but saved for posterity): Many of her pieces, I should add, are thoughtful and good.) I’ve previously taken apart one of her religion-coddling pieces that was published in Foreign Policy. Ioffe was the Russian correspondent for the New Yorker, then a senior editor for The New Republic, and most recently wrote for Politico. Twitchy ( here and here), as well as many other outlets, reported that journalist Julia Ioffe made a rather substantial gaffe on Twitter. ![]()
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