Will the NYT start asking questions about how safe vaxx is
Dec 30, 2021 22:32:56 GMT -5
Post by PurplePuppy on Dec 30, 2021 22:32:56 GMT -5
December 30, 2021
Will the NYT start asking some questions about how safe COVID vaccines are now that they've lost an editor?
By Monica Showalter
It had to be a hard blow when the New York Times' deputy Asia editor, Carlos Tejada, unexpectedly dropped dead of a heart attack. He had just turned 49.
After all, for the Times, guys with his skills are pretty hard to find. I didn't know him, but I used to work as an editor at a big newswire in Singapore myself, and I recognized his name as that of a superb reporter and writer, a guy with little bias, lots of foreign knowledge, and a byline worth reading.
According to his New York Times obit, he was also a superb editor, someone who could scruff out stories from the filings of weak reporters. The Times doesn't say so, but since I know about editing in Asia, that likely was editing stories from the filings of non-native speakers of English, as well the filings of U.S.-born freelancers and staff, who might have been good reporters but were wretched writers — people who couldn't write ledes (yes, that's the word used in the industry), organize sentences, or sometimes even spell (I can name names at the Times; I knew editors there). Tejada was the guy who could turn these shambles into publishable stories. In addition, he was an old Asia hand, with experience and know-how around the region, including some knowledge of Mandarin. Guys like that are diamonds to big newspapers with expensive foreign operations. Tejada had been poached from the Wall Street Journal in 2016, which meant that the Times had been watching him for a while as he honed his skills at the Journal before moving in to make him a better offer.
Next thing they knew, Tejada died suddenly, leaving behind a wife and two small kids, on Dec. 17. After that, other outlets, notably Alex Berenson, a former Timesman himself on his Substack page, published what might have been a pertinent issue: that Tejada had gotten a Moderna booster shot a day earlier, following two Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots. Based on his picture in the Times, a recent one, taken only a few weeks earlier at a November gathering, he looked fit, healthy, and happy.
Something sounds funny here.
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Will the NYT start asking some questions about how safe COVID vaccines are now that they've lost an editor?
By Monica Showalter
It had to be a hard blow when the New York Times' deputy Asia editor, Carlos Tejada, unexpectedly dropped dead of a heart attack. He had just turned 49.
After all, for the Times, guys with his skills are pretty hard to find. I didn't know him, but I used to work as an editor at a big newswire in Singapore myself, and I recognized his name as that of a superb reporter and writer, a guy with little bias, lots of foreign knowledge, and a byline worth reading.
According to his New York Times obit, he was also a superb editor, someone who could scruff out stories from the filings of weak reporters. The Times doesn't say so, but since I know about editing in Asia, that likely was editing stories from the filings of non-native speakers of English, as well the filings of U.S.-born freelancers and staff, who might have been good reporters but were wretched writers — people who couldn't write ledes (yes, that's the word used in the industry), organize sentences, or sometimes even spell (I can name names at the Times; I knew editors there). Tejada was the guy who could turn these shambles into publishable stories. In addition, he was an old Asia hand, with experience and know-how around the region, including some knowledge of Mandarin. Guys like that are diamonds to big newspapers with expensive foreign operations. Tejada had been poached from the Wall Street Journal in 2016, which meant that the Times had been watching him for a while as he honed his skills at the Journal before moving in to make him a better offer.
Next thing they knew, Tejada died suddenly, leaving behind a wife and two small kids, on Dec. 17. After that, other outlets, notably Alex Berenson, a former Timesman himself on his Substack page, published what might have been a pertinent issue: that Tejada had gotten a Moderna booster shot a day earlier, following two Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots. Based on his picture in the Times, a recent one, taken only a few weeks earlier at a November gathering, he looked fit, healthy, and happy.
Something sounds funny here.
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