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When Nellie Bowles got her dream job as a reporter for the New York Times, she thought she’d never leave the legacy paper.
But what she witnessed behind the scenes gave her a very personal insight into the political capture of the American newsroom. She tells UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers about the disinformation movement, mainstream media bias and finding herself outside the tribe.
Watch the full interview above.
I’m new to UnHerd, so forgive me.
Thank you so much for this well put-together interview. I am so relieved to hear clear-minded people like Freddie and Nellie speak. It’s so refreshing to listen to others who grasp the complexity of any given area of human life, and are able to speak in moderate tones about it.
Interesting to hear from someone who understands the inner workings of the msm. Like the Twitter files, we didn’t really learn anything new–we all knew the msm are intensely biased against all but the most left-leaning opinions–but still good to hear an accurate account from someone who used to be a member of that tribe.
Speaking of tribes… Bowles was once a happily card-carrying member of the Left. Then, as so often happens, she deviated a fraction of a degree from The Accepted Narrative and the revolution came for her.
Now she’s out exposing the truth, or is it gaining a little payback, or is it promoting her and Bari Weiss’s media enterprise, or is it promoting her book, or is it… Anyway, interesting interview.
We politically unaffiliated admirers of common sense and pragmatism who have been orphaned by the Left and Right might find solace in journalists like Bowles and Sayers and perhaps even a bit of hope. Thank you for making this interview available to us.
Why did she keep saying with regard to the Wi Spa indecent exposure incident ( belatedly recognized as such but always the case ) that the furor stemmed from a refusal to see complexity?
What was not seen was the obvious and simple. Freddie Sayers is right to say that the most disturbing aspect of this is that a slew of the sober arbiters(!) of sense and reason would not see it as well.
The rot runs deep.
Try to ‘negotiate’ with that.
Great interview. As we saw during Covid, Freddie is one of the best out there. Intelligently questioning without hyperbole, allowing and engaging with different opinions. Nellie seems like a thoroughly good egg, a classic American liberal (which I mean as a compliment).
I think that the ability of minority, hyper partisan activist groups to dominate (BLM, trans rights etc) is indeed being constrained. Their over-egging of the agenda puts people off. The number of credible journalists and commentators now putting their heads above the parapet is slowly rising, and it is a good thing.
I’m not sure why I should be listening to someone so confused I think she needs to spend some time away from her fantasy world and form an actual thought.