Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Politico Magazine: Journalists’ Old Tweets Are 'Fair Game'

Politico Magazine: Journalists’ Old Tweets Are 'Fair Game': Politico’s senior media writer said journalists’ old tweets are “fair game” in response to the ongoing media frenzy spurred by Breitbart News exposing threads of antisemitism embedded in the New York Times newsroom.

Jack Shafer defended the practice of unearthing controversial statements made by prominent members of the media and holding them accountable in an exposĂ© featured in Politico Magazine Monday. Breitbart News’s extensive reporting on antisemitic and racist statements made by Tom Wright-Piersanti, a senior editor at the New York Times, sparked the national conversation.

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