According to his New York Times obit, he was also a superb editor, someone who could scruff out stories from the filings of weak reporters.
The Times doesn't say so, but since I know about editing in Asia, that likely was editing stories from the filings of non-native speakers of English, as well the filings of U.S.-born freelancers and staff, who might have been good reporters but were wretched writers - people who couldn't write ledes, organize sentences, or sometimes even spell.
Tejada had been poached from the Wall Street Journal in 2016, which meant that the Times had been watching him for a while as he honed his skills at the Journal before moving in to make him a better offer.
The media, including the Times, have busied themselves with promoting the "Get vaccinated" line on political grounds as if no other questions need be asked in what may well be an unfolding story.
Tejada was the editor who fluffed up the copy of the first COVID stories coming out of China, as Berenson's Substack piece shows.
Now Tejada himself may be the latest or last chapter in the question about whether these vaccine solutions to the problem are really safe and whether vaccine mandates are a good idea.
The New York Times has lost someone good from its team following a booster shot, which ought to be prompting the people there to ask some questions at this point.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
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Thursday, December 30, 2021
Will the NYT start asking some questions about how safe COVID vaccines are now that they've lost an editor?
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