In an era of distrust in the media and confusion over what journalism is, I believe institutions - even ones with a lot of esteemed traditions - better serve their audiences with direct, clear language. Editorials will still be called editorials, but the articles written by outside writers will be known going forward as “Guest Essays,’’ a title that will appear prominently above the headline …
So now, at age 50, the designation will be retired. It is a relic of an older age and an older print newspaper design. In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the paper’s journalism online, there is no geographical “Op-Ed,” just as there is no geographical “Ed” for Op-Ed to be opposite to. The term is outdated and, worse, can confuse and alienate readers: In a follow-up tweet, the professor wrote, “That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have fucked generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived.February 11, 2021In a post announcing the change, opinion editor Katie Kingsbury described the label - a holdover from print newspaper design referring to opinions published on the opposite (“op”) page as editorials (“ed”) - as “clubby newspaper jargon.” May her pain be excruciating,” Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya tweeted on Thursday. “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. Jasanoff is far from the only professor to politicize the queen’s death and is actually far more restrained in her criticism than some of her woke counterparts. That would be an end to celebrate,” she concludes. “The new king now has an opportunity to make a real historical impact by scaling back royal pomp and updating Britain’s monarchy to be more like those of Scandinavia. Jasanoff closes with a call to end what she calls the “imperial monarchy” and reduce it to a piece of ceremonial obscurity, as seen in the Scandinavian countries. (Photo Illustration by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) In this photo illustration, £1 coins are seen with the new £10 note on October 13, 2017, in Bath, England. “She was, of course, a white face on all the coins, notes and stamps circulated in a rapidly diversifying nation: From perhaps one person of color in 200 Britons at her accession, the 2011 census counted one in seven,” she later suggests. “Xenophobia and racism have been rising, fueled by the toxic politics of Brexit,” laments Jasanoff. Saying the queen put a “stolid traditionalist front over decades of violent upheaval,” Jasanoff then alleges that the queen’s image essentially helped to “obscure a bloody history of decolonization” that has yet to be acknowledged and apologized for.Īfter sifting through the queen’s long, complicated history without so much as an attempt to present a rebuttal or at least add a layer of contextualization to the many alleged atrocities attributed to her government, Jasanoff then reflects on the queen’s final decades, during which she saw a rise in British multiculturalism that culminated into Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle. “She has been a fixture of stability, and her death in already turbulent times will send ripples of sadness around the world,” writes Jasanoff. Jasanoff begins by at least acknowledging the late queen’s impact on Britain and the rest of the world before dedicating over 1,500 words to bashing her legacy and calling for an end to the British Monarchy’s cultural impact.
Written by Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff, the article wastes little time getting to its thesis of demonizing the queen as a relic of a racist era in which she oversaw the dissolution of the British Empire. The New York Times immediately politicized Queen Elizabeth II’s passing on Thursday with an op-ed advising people to not “romanticize” her reign, citing Britain’s past colonialism.
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