INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
defended its new hire, Sarah Jeong, who was dragged into a racism controversy for tweets she wrote from 2013 to early 2015.The paper
embroiled into a controversy as right-wing websites started highlighting some of her old tweets which used derogatory terms to refer to
"Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling
goblins."The Times on Thursday said it knew about the 30-year-old Jeong's tweets before hiring
"Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment," The Times said in its
She sees now that this approach only served to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media," it added.But not everyone is happy
told Fox News that "the issue at hand here is not about whether Jeong''s tweets were racist or not." Hypocrisy is the real issue,
Greenbaum said."The New York Times justified her racist tweets," media research centre analyst Kristine Marsh, who called the paper's
