{"id":208521,"date":"2020-06-09T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208521"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:19:14","slug":"bonfire-of-the-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208521","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bonfire of the liberals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">New York Magazine faces backlash for &#8216;banning&#8217; conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan from writing about anti-racism riots &#8211; or face the sack<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Andrew Sullivan announced on Thursday that the latest installment of his column in New York Magazine would not be running this week\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Cockburn, a blog run by UK-based news outlet The Spectator, alleged that New York Magazine would not allow Sullivan to write about the riots<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>&#8216;Presumably Sullivan&#8217;s editors are frightened that he might make the radically bourgeois point that looting and violence are wrong,&#8217; a Cockburn blog post says<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Sullivan&#8217;s Twitter account is studded with criticisms of recent protests sparked by the death of George Floyd<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>News that his column won&#8217;t run was met with mixed reactions on Twitter<\/strong><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daily Mail.com \u2013 June 7, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_208106\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/New-York-a-vehicle-burns-near-New-Yorks-Union-Square-on-Saturday-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208106\" class=\"wp-image-208106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/New-York-a-vehicle-burns-near-New-Yorks-Union-Square-on-Saturday-night-768x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/New-York-a-vehicle-burns-near-New-Yorks-Union-Square-on-Saturday-night-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/New-York-a-vehicle-burns-near-New-Yorks-Union-Square-on-Saturday-night-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/New-York-a-vehicle-burns-near-New-Yorks-Union-Square-on-Saturday-night.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-208106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vehicle burns near New York&#8217;s Union Square on Saturday, April 30, 2020. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">New York Magazine is facing backlash after it allegedly banned a conservative commentator from writing about anti-racism protests that have taken over the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Andrew Sullivan, a British journalist, announced on Thursday that the latest installment of his column in New York Magazine would not be running this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He did not publicly state why the column was cancelled, but an explanation was outlined in a scathing post on Cockburn, an American blog run by the UK-based Spectator outlet, which frequently publishes Sullivan&#8217;s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Sullivan revealed on Twitter yesterday that his column wouldn&#8217;t be appearing. The reason? His editors are not allowing him to write about the riots,&#8217; the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/andrew-sullivan-new-york-column-riots\/\"><strong>post <\/strong><\/a>claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Presumably Sullivan&#8217;s editors are frightened that he might make the radically bourgeois point that looting and violence are wrong.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">New York Magazine did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com&#8217;s request for comment about Sullivan&#8217;s column.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Heads up: my column won&#39;t be appearing this week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sullydish\/status\/1268564124423933953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Cockburn blog charged that Sullivan&#8217;s contract with New York Magazine states that he cannot write about the riots for any other publication &#8211; or else he can lose his job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The blog cited a source &#8216;close to New York Magazine&#8217; who said Sullivan &#8216;has to have his work vetted by sensitive junior editors to make sure it doesn&#8217;t trigger them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;If it passes their sniff testing, it can be published.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sullivan&#8217;s Twitter account is studded with criticisms of recent protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest on May 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While many of the protests have been peaceful, others have devolved into violence with businesses burned and looted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sullivan has retweeted several posts and videos of destruction in progress, with comments calling out their distinction from peaceful protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Cockburn blog accused New York magazine and other media outlets of censoring voices outside the mainstream, like Sullivan&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;It&#8217;s the bonfire of the liberals!&#8217; the post states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Who cares about the First Amendment? Not the Maoists who are marching through NYC&#8217;s media institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8396935\/New-York-magazine-faces-backlash-banning-conservative-columnist-writing-riots.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine faces backlash for &#8216;banning&#8217; conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan from writing about anti-racism riots &#8211; or face the sack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":208106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208524,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521\/revisions\/208524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}