Post by Webster on Apr 12, 2019 23:35:32 GMT
(The Guardian) An op-ed in the Boston Globe that argued former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen should face ongoing public censure because of the harm her policies caused was removed from the paper’s site after the Globe’s owner intervened, WGBH reports.
The piece, by freelance writer Luke O’Neil, was originally titled, “Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink,” and included O’Neil’s regret for “not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon” when he was a service worker. He also praised the restaurant protests that have disrupted the dinners of some Trump administration employees.
The piece sparked a pile-on from Fox News and other conservative pundits who claimed that the op-ed was advocating violence against conservatives. It was first edited, then taken down completely.
John and Linda Pizzuti Henry, the Globe’s owners, contacted the newspaper’s editorial editor and said that “this is a kind of piece that should never been published,” the editor told WGBH.
O’Neil, a freelancer who has also written for The Guardian, criticized the Globe for taking down the piece. He told WGBH that the he had called for making Trump administration officials feel uncomfortable in public, not for any kind of physical violence. “How many families do we have to tear apart, how many babies do we have to snatch away before people could agree that it’s okay to be rude to the head of the DHS? Is there a number? If we stole a million babies, would it be okay to yell at Kirstjen Nielsen?”
Other journalists criticized the Globe’s editor and owners for what they saw as bowing to the pressure of Fox’s right-wing outrage cycle. “The outcry is hypocritical and hypocrites have no standing,” Laura Lippman, a novelist and former journalist, wrote.
-Read more: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/apr/12/trump-news-today-latest-live-news-mueller-report-assange-sanctuary-cities-us-politics
The piece, by freelance writer Luke O’Neil, was originally titled, “Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink,” and included O’Neil’s regret for “not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon” when he was a service worker. He also praised the restaurant protests that have disrupted the dinners of some Trump administration employees.
The piece sparked a pile-on from Fox News and other conservative pundits who claimed that the op-ed was advocating violence against conservatives. It was first edited, then taken down completely.
John and Linda Pizzuti Henry, the Globe’s owners, contacted the newspaper’s editorial editor and said that “this is a kind of piece that should never been published,” the editor told WGBH.
O’Neil, a freelancer who has also written for The Guardian, criticized the Globe for taking down the piece. He told WGBH that the he had called for making Trump administration officials feel uncomfortable in public, not for any kind of physical violence. “How many families do we have to tear apart, how many babies do we have to snatch away before people could agree that it’s okay to be rude to the head of the DHS? Is there a number? If we stole a million babies, would it be okay to yell at Kirstjen Nielsen?”
Other journalists criticized the Globe’s editor and owners for what they saw as bowing to the pressure of Fox’s right-wing outrage cycle. “The outcry is hypocritical and hypocrites have no standing,” Laura Lippman, a novelist and former journalist, wrote.
-Read more: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/apr/12/trump-news-today-latest-live-news-mueller-report-assange-sanctuary-cities-us-politics
