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(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Reporter Nellie Bowles, in her dream job at the New York Times, was surprised when her editors rejected a story that she wrote in 2019 about Prager U. They said the story should have stressed that Prager U's videos are "disinformation."

It confused her because she knew that the videos were not lies, but just represented a point of view which the editors at NYT didn't like. She argued that Prager U's point of view was not inherently a lie. 

"Disinformation" became a movement in newsrooms around the country, she says, at about that time. The movement "pretends to be editorial, but it's extremely political. It's their tangible goal. . . They pretended that Antifa was fake news!" She calls Antifa "an armed group of left-wing protesters." Editors labeled her a fascist for wanting to report on Antifa taking over a neighborhood in Seattle.

Nellie sees journalism as a vehicle for true information, not political activism. So, she's no longer employed by "prestige media."

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