Dennis Prager Show - Is Non-Woke Journalism Emerging From Leftist Newspapers?
Aired: 2024-02-28
Duration: 03:25


=== Heretic at the New York Times (03:24) ===

[00:00:01]  I'll certainly take the cold of Fairbanks, Alaska over the heat of many places on Earth.
[00:00:10]  Heat is not much you can do about heat.
[00:00:13]  Obviously air conditioning is the primary answer, but that's it.
[00:00:17]  You can bundle up for cold, but you can't unbundle for heat.
[00:00:23]  As little as you wear, it's still hot.
[00:00:29]  Anyway...
[00:00:29]  Hi, everybody.
[00:00:31]  Wonderful to be with you.
[00:00:35]  Something seems to be happening at the Atlantic.
[00:00:40]  I'm not all that optimistic that it will continue, but they're actually publishing some non-woke pieces, which is, and I don't know why, but here's an example.
[00:00:55]  I was a heretic at the New York Times.
[00:00:58]  It just came out.
[00:00:59]  Let's see, yesterday.
[00:01:01]  I was a heretic at the New York Times.
[00:01:03]  I did what I was hired to do, and I paid for it.
[00:01:07]  A man named Adam Rubenstein.
[00:01:12]  On one of my first days at the New York Times, I went to an orientation with more than a dozen other new hires.
[00:01:20]  We had to do an icebreaker, pick a star bust out of a jar, and then answer a question.
[00:01:28]  My starburst was pink, I believe, and so...
[00:01:32]  Starburst.
[00:01:33]  Starburst, sorry.
[00:01:34]  What did I say?
[00:01:35]  Starburst.
[00:01:36]  I've never had a starburst.
[00:01:37]  You've never had a starburst?
[00:01:39]  But you've had starbursts.
[00:01:41]  It sounds delicious.
[00:01:42]  Thank you.
[00:01:43]  That was very sweet of you.
[00:01:45]  I don't think I've had a starburst, or I wouldn't have made that mistake.
[00:01:49]  There's no question.
[00:01:51]  This is a new one for me.
[00:01:54]  And so I had to answer the pink prompt.
[00:01:58]  Which had me respond with my favorite sandwich.
[00:02:02]  What is my favorite sandwich?
[00:02:05]  Russ and Daughters Super Heapster came to mind, but I figured mentioning a $19 sandwich wasn't a great way to win new friends.
[00:02:16]  So I blurted out the spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A and considered the ice broken.
[00:02:26]  Again, this is on one of his first days at the New York Times.
[00:02:31]  The HR representative...
[00:02:33]  What is HR? Human Relations, right?
[00:02:37]  Human Resources.
[00:02:38]  It shows you how little I have contacts.
[00:02:41]  Praise the Lord.
[00:02:45]  Human Resources.
[00:02:46]  Oh, God.
[00:02:48]  Human Resources.
[00:02:50]  It's painful.
[00:02:53]  What I'm about to read to you...
[00:02:56]  Gives you an idea of the way the New York Times is run.
[00:03:00]  And again, this is printed in the Atlantic, which is quite surprising.
[00:03:07]  The HR representative leading the orientation chided me.
[00:03:12]  We don't do that here.
[00:03:15]  They hate gay people.
[00:03:20]  Wow.
[00:03:21]  I'm going to talk to you about that.
[00:03:24]  In a moment.