The NY Times, which always leaned left, has become unabashedly left-biased over the past 5-6 years.
That's why I was shocked when I read the accusation that they fired reporter Lauren Wolfe over pro-Biden tweets.
Here's a Yahoo article about the situation: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...172626273.html
The two tweets in question involve one which said she had "chills" watching Biden's plane land as he was flying to the inauguration, and the other (now deleted) which wrongly accused Trump of refusing to send a military plane to pick up Biden. (It turned out that Biden himself chose to take his own plane there.)
The Times is refusing to comment on the firing.
Left wing journalist Yashar Ali claimed on Twitter that the firings occurred due to these two tweets, and the "right wingers" pressured the times to make it happen. Of course, this raises several questions:
1) Since when has the NY Times cared what "right wingers" think?
2) How could the Times have fired Wolfe for these mild tweets, when the entire paper and staff has been so unabashedly anti-Trump and pro-Biden?
3) Are there perhaps other much more valid reasons for this firing, which are being suppressed by Wolfe and/or Yashar Ali?
Oddly Wolfe is still surprisingly pro-NYT, despite the fact that she was supposedly fired for complete bullshit reasons:
https://twitter.com/Wolfe321/status/1353248028484890624
Wolfe's recent tweets downplay the firing, and instead she's focusing upon idiotic messages she's getting from moron right wing trolls. While I admit that trolls shouldn't be harassing her, it seems bizarre that her focus is on random internet losers rather than the newspaper which supposedly royally screwed her.
As presented, I agree she shouldn't have been fired, nor should these "right wingers" have pressured the NY Times to do so.
However, much like the situation with "whisleblower" Rebekah Jones, I have a feeling there's more to this story.