The Wall Street Journal vows not to 'wilt under cancel culture pressure'; reaction and analysis from media reporter for The Hill Joe Concha on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Pete welcome back the wall.
Pete welcome back the Wall
Street Journal Editorial Board,
refusing to wilt under cancel
culture within their own ranks,
Jedediah the editorial board,
responding after hundreds of
staffers responded after
demanding the paper fact check
and be more transparent in
opinion pages
Griff here to weigh in is Joe
Con challenge.
Good morning to you
looks like the opinion page
folks over at the Wall Street
Journal arent going to take it
lightly,
no Griff,
because they saw this movie over
at the New York Times just
last month, where woke staffers
were all up in arms over
editorial written by Senator Tom
cotton. Is he a republican
advocating for the use of the
military when protests get out
of control they become too
violent and police locally cant
handle the situation.
You can say I disagree with it
or say you agree with that.
Thats. The point of an opinion
page
ABC Poll shows fifty two percent of Americans
agreed with cotton. Yet the Woke
staffers at the paper went crazy
and ended up to the point of
getting the Op Ed editor named.
Bennett fired not fired, but
resigned,
forced to resign and forced out
of the paper.
So theyre saying look, I will
read you a quote.
This is from the Wall Street
Journal yesterday.
It was probably Inel evident
tillable that the wave of
progressive cancel culture would
arrive at the journal,
as it has at nearly every other
cultural business, academic and
journalistic institution.
We are not the New York Times.
They made that very clear and
theyre, taking a page guys
from the Goya. Ceo,
remember, Alexandria,
Ocasio, Cortez Social Media MOB
says that the Goya company
should be boycotted because he
said something nice about
President Trump, as he said
something nice about President
Obama, when he met with him eight
years ago
and then Ocasio Cortez says you
know what
this company should be boycotted
four thousand employees not far from me
here in New Jersey headquarters,
many latino workers there
thats the thing about boycotts.
You dont hurt the ceo with the
money. You hurt the people at the
bottom. If the boycott is
affected, they are the first to
be fired
good for the Wall Street
Journal,
dont apologize,
stand by your ground and
continue to do your work as
journalists
PETE how they continue to do
their work, Joe Freedom of
expression, its their job.
You dont have to agree with the
opinion of the Wall Street
Journal, but you recognize the
value of opinion in this
country.
How do they manage a business
where they are effectively under
siege from within?
I think in the end, you have
people that run the company and
they say. Okay, your opinions
are welcome.
We love your feedback in terms
of comments,
but in terms of our opinion
pages we are going to offer the
left
we are going to or the right
we are going to offer the
center.
We have been in existence far
longer than have you been
working at this paper.
We will be fine. Thank you in
terms of the way we go about
doing things
look PETE. There is a poll out
just a couple days ago from the
Kato Institute.
This was scary, stuff.
Sixty two percent of people are afraid to
share some of the political
views that they have
and look. I am right outside of
Amaz Anti Murphy Autonomous Zone
such as a periphery.
I have friends that are democrat
and Republican who support the
president.
Those who support the president
will tell you very privately and
very quietly that they are
petrified to share any political
views on Facebook, or especially
at work with co workers, because
its not like they are afraid
they are going to get yelled at
or get nasty instant messages.
They are afraid they will get
eliminated fired from their
jobs.
We saw it this week with a
Michigan teacher who said Donald
Trump. Is our president
thats it
instead of getting pulled aside
or say, hey lets tone it down.
He gets eliminated from his
position thats. Why its a
scary time for free thought in
this country right now, PETE
Pete, one hundred percent
Jedediah it
I got to get its hot yoga
day,
thats a Saturday thing in the
backyard
pictures on Instagram,
PETE, Post pictures on our
instagram, so we can see
its done.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.