In the United States, the large-scale protest against racism and police violence that followed the death of George Floyd has direct repercussions on the American media. Editors of the prestigious New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer have had to resign after the outcry over the publication of inappropriate columns in their respective newspapers.
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In the New York Times , it was the podium of a Republican senator from Arkansas who set the powder on fire. In his text, Tom Cotton notably qualified the demonstrators as rioters, and proposed to send them the army, causing an internal outcry. More than 800 journalists signed a letter to the newspaper's management to denounce the contents of the tribune. "As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am ashamed that we have published this," Nikole Hannah Jones, a journalist who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for the American daily newspaper. In the end, the affair led to the resignation of the head of the Opinions section, James Bennet.
A "Buildings matter, too" forum
At the Philadelphia Inquirer , it was editorial director Stan Wischnowski who had to leave his post, reports Le Figaro. In question, a forum in which he regrets the deterioration of buildings during the demonstrations in tribute to George Floyd, and entitled "Buildings matter, too", making direct reference to the slogan "Black lives matter".
And it does not stop there. Black journalists from the women's website Refinery 29 have come to denounce the humiliation they have suffered for years at work. The site editor was asked to leave the group within minutes.
In an extremely famous culinary magazine in the United States, by the name of Bon Appétit , a photo of one of its editors, Adam Rappoport, made up in Latin American and taken in 2013 for Halloween, has just come out. He had to take his business and left the company. These serial resignations recall in those days those of "MeToo", when women's voices were freed, in the media, and more broadly society as a whole.