Reporter claims that the management is urging workers to “rat out” DEI members.
President Donald Trump’s sharp executive actions on diversification, equity, and incorporation and other issues are causing a” society of harassment and anxiety”, a panel of popular editors asserted Saturday at Duke University.
Hosted by the university’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, the panel discussed the topic,” Trump takes charge ( again ): What his second presidency and a Republican majority mean for America”, the Duke Chronicle reports.
One of the participants, NPR’s David Folkenflik, brought up the Trump administration’s steps purging La from government applications.
Late last year, Department of Education officials cut La agreements and plans, and placed ideology-focused workers on administrative leave, The College Fix reported.
Folkenflik said the administration also asked that federal employees who refuse to comply with the actions be reported – which he characterized as “rat]ing ] out” colleagues who continue” secret]diversity, equity and inclusion ] programs”.
” This is all sending a message to people about not getting out of line”, The New York Times ‘ Maggie Haberman, another panelist, added.
The Chronicle reports more:
The panelists argued that the new administration has now” created a tradition of coercion and fear” despite the fact that President Donald Trump has only been in business for a week.
In addition to his decision to fire at least 12 investigators general, who serve as independent watchdogs for federal corruption and scam, Haberman noted that the extreme campaign Trump’s allies” to force Democratic senators to foot” during Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation, were indications that the Trump administration was going to make it “painful” for people in different branches of government who oppose him.
… When asked by an audience member if the panelists expected politics to “return to more of a state of normalcy” in a post-Trump America ,]TIME Magazine’s Charlotte ] Alter confidently said “no”.
” One of the biggest takeaways from Trump’s existence and Trump’s political career for conservatives is moving away from a shame-based moral landscape”, she said. ” On the left, you can’t get away with anything. On the right, you can get away with everything”.
The panelists responded to questions about the public’s distrust of journalists by pointing out that the legacy media is at least partially to blame:
They [recognised that ] media organizations may be giving too much attention to political issues that the majority of voters don’t care about and not enough to the issues that ordinary Americans care about. Alter described what she termed a “misalignment” between the priorities of media organizations and their audiences.
Because most Americans don’t follow every tick of every story in the same way that we do in the political media, she said,” I’ve come to believe that the smarter we are about politics, the dumber we are about politics.”
Haberman said she thinks journalists “did an extremely good job of describing the stakes of the election.”
Folkenflik added that “it’s not the]media’s ] job to prevent Trump from being elected”.
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