Newsroom leaders' top-down control over what gets published is nothing new. @laubast.bsky.social prev. investigated how newsrooms killed stories on Israel's genocide in Gaza. “The way they killed my material was violent to me … emotionally triggering & unethical," said photojournalist Eman Mohammed.
A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
The most heart breaking part is this kind of "journalism" high up editor logic is NOT unique to Weiss. I wish you could've heard what I heard when my work was killed, silenced, suppressed and silenced (or at best, just criticized).
It's eerily familiar. In some ways identical.
Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
