More information has come to light about the Hasan Minhaj Joke Scandal, involving the New Yorker’s recent article and veteran Journalist Claire Malone. It’s an important subject and something I thought needed to be addressed.
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00:00 – Hasan Minhaj issues a response to Clare Malone and the New Yorker
02:17 – The Receipts
04:56 – Clare Malone omits lots of evidence
08:36 – The New Yorker’s terrible response
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Targeting hit piece on a brown muslim right when he was about to get a permanent spot as the new host of the Tonight Show. They don't fucking care about us. They never did.
Its ridiculous that this happen. It was a hit piece. I am glad Hasan stood up and said no fam, let me show y'all the receipts. This reporter out here trying to ruin lives.
As someone who studied journalism, I have so much rage about this. I am so versed in how spin works, and with the additional facts its so obvious this story was pure spin. She had the slant of the article already in her mind and she used the actual interview and facts to fit the narrative. Sadly, this is a common thing in a news room. You sometimes have to tell the story the way your editor wants it told or it doesn’t print. To see a journalist of integrity throw it away for a paycheck is awful. Knowing her reputation for fairness and telling stories that agent often told gave her a level of respect and authority that made people believer it. I know being a journalist is hard, the landscape has been erroding since the late 90's but damn. Printing lies to discredit someone who does similar work you do? Not the move.
RIP Claire Malone. You used to be valued and liked, once. Long Live Hasan Minhaj, the King in the North (America).
"are you writing for your high school paper for smarmy assholes?" yeah that's the new Yorker
Ive been questioning the whole thing since the article dropped because it felt gross to accuse a poc of making up racism that happened to them.
that and I also have my own bias against the New Yorker. I read a handful of articles from them and they all sound pretentious and like the authors would call me a brokie and spit in my face if they could
Thank you for covering this! I conveniently haven't seen this anywhere else 🧐 what a mess
You cannot disregard who, or perhaps WHAT Clare happens to be, vs who and what Hasan is. I think what a lot of people fail to register is that, just because some non wyt ppl succeed, that doesn't mean that all things are equal. And when they do register that- they believe that it's the big bad party or demographic on the other side that causes harm, it's not their team, and it certainly not themselves.
But you're a product of this society, and what many people have to unlearn is that they are entitled to have non wyt, often villainized people, prove themselves as one of the good ones.
Claire saw this as an opportunity to raise your profile as a reporter, regardless of the cost. Perhaps she didn't consider at the front of her mind who this affect and the imbalances in her position versus his, but this is kind of the point. Her unconscious bias allowed her to do what she did because, she's wired to see things him already being lucky to be allowed into the club, but hey, you've got a police the club now and then to see if the right people got in.
But who's doing the policing, and who's getting policed?
The fact that Hassan was treated like a criminal and had to respond to interrogation, provide proof of his position, then clear his name feels unacceptable- his only "crime" was being a brown Muslim man succeeding, while pointing out truths learned from both from his personal experience, and from his lens of the world.
The fact that some people feel that someone like Hassan owes them an explanation, demonstrates a certain type of entitlement. I wish ppl would stop making BIPOC individuals prove that they are "one of the good ones", without questioning whether or not they themselves, are demonstrating they are one of their own groups "bad ones".
It’s crazy how much she obfuscated the truth for her own story. Wow. Hasan did not deserve this whatsoever.
Imagine major new outlets LYING…*sips tea" but y'all believe them anyway… hey instead of a 20 min video… I have a song EVERYONE should hear… "cult of personality" by Living Colour
Since when has the New Yorker been anything but a trash rag , it’s full of garbage , sorry you cared about her but she worked for a trash company of course she’s gonna make trash
Was this a hit piece so Hasan didn't get The Daily Show” job? 😮 If so, 🤯🤬
Props to Hasan for the way he's handled this character assassination. Malone and The New Yorker handed yet another deathknell to journalism, as if journalism needed another deathknell. The assassination of journalism happened long ago.
Why is it so hard to find actual journalism from journalists? It's scary to find comedians like Hasan Minhaj, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, and many others who have more journalistic integrity than those who's jobs have 'journalist' in the title
Honestly I think a lot of comedians these days are doing better journalistic work in general. I've got a lot of respect for Minhaj and I hope they pick him for the Daily Show. Thanks Zaid for your perspective and info. You're doing better journalistic work than most of the shit out there.
i wonder if Her editor had anything to do about the way the article was written.
Thanks for this video. You're taking a thoughtful approach to this.
Expert journalists have their niches. It is never the name, it is the work. Try to avoid reporting on individuals, unless they are an authority or working for the public. Omissions, and vague context, does not help things.
The bigger issue is more that Hasan cultivated a /toxic work environment/ for /people of colour/.
I loved the Patriot Act but I can't continue to support someone who makes his employees feel uncomfortable behind the scenes.
I’d also been a huge fan of Clare Malone’s work with 538 and elsewhere, and after this I’ve lost massive respect for her and the New Yorker as this just comes off as a hit piece now, and like they treated him to at least as low a threshold of truth in their news article as he did to life stories in his stand up specials. And the New Yorker’s response doesn’t reject any of his receipts or full quotes.
Fantastic video, thanks for taking the time to break this all down Zaid.