Rosenberg doesn’t just undercut the liberal-left narrative on the Capitol riot. He also dishes major dirt about the behaviour of certain colleagues that day. ‘But like all these colleagues who were in the building, and they’re young and are like: “Oh my God, it was so scary.” I’m like, “fuck off…” [The Times] is not the kind of place I can tell somebody to man up, but I kind of want to be like, “Dude, come on. Like, you were not in any danger.”’

It’s impossible to surmise what Rosenberg was thinking when he made these comments. Maybe he was changing his story to impress his companion. Or maybe he was telling the truth, and his original reporting, after undergoing a thorough Timesian editorial clean-up, came out of the machine an entirely different story. Whatever the case, it’s deeply disturbing to hear such a frank admission that the Capitol riot was exaggerated by his own paper.

Rosenberg also reveals the internal conflict at the Times, between the attitudes of the old guard, whom he describes as ‘reasonable people’, and the hypersensitive woke culture prevalent among younger staff members – or as he puts it, ‘some of the crazier leftist shit that’s worked its way in there’.

The sad thing is, under normal circumstances, in a healthy media and political climate, nothing Rosenberg said would be that controversial. What he says is interesting and reasonable. The problem is that what he’s saying is considered verboten in mainstream discourse — whether it’s true or not.

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