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Title: New York Times discredits itself by going along with rewriting facts of 1619 Project
Post by: rangerrebew on September 30, 2020, 02:45:30 pm

 New York Times discredits itself by going along with rewriting facts of 1619 Project

By Jonah Goldberg

September 27, 2020 | 8:06pm
 
Something strange is going on with The New York Times and its 1619 Project.

By now, you’ve probably heard of the 1619 Project. It ­began as a special issue of the Times’ Sunday magazine to mark the 400th anniversary of African slaves being brought to the Jamestown colonies. But it’s become a multiplatform, multimedia moveable feast with saturation coverage and promotion. Oprah Winfrey is going to ­develop it for film and television. It’s being incorporated into curricula from grade schools to universities through the Pulitzer Center. Not surprisingly, it won a Pulitzer Prize (the center and the prize are unrelated). Or rather, the lead author and ­director of the project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won in the commentary category.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/nyt-discredits-itself-by-rewriting-the-facts-of-the-1619-project/