I’d like to now report that Maza is okay. The same article says “attempts to reach Maza via email were unsuccessful, although he posted on Twitter, ‘hello from the ~shakiest~ few weeks of my life’ on Aug. How did that make for an accurate headline? Reality is that most people get harassed on Twitter, so I want to know what made Carlos different. Investigative journalism doesn’t seem to be what it used to be anymore. Either he was being harassed or he wasn’t. The New York Post headline reads “Carlos Maza reportedly leaving Vox after harassment on Twitter.” Unless there is something they are hiding from the public. Now that I think of it that way, I think Vox has some serious ‘splaining to do. The real question is why Vox is getting rid of Maza but keeping everyone else! There must be evil afoot. I’m wondering how all the other people who work for Vox are still there as well. I know what you’re thinking: since when did Vox care about quality reporting? Surely if he was fired it was for a political reason! And you know … now that the question arises, I have to second guess myself. Is it even okay to ask that question when we are being told he is a gay man of racialized minority status? What if Maza just wasn’t good at his job and that’s why he isn’t working for Vox anymore? But, in the new “woke” age, every trauma (and losing a job is traumatic) seems to require political framing.īut what if Maza was just bad at his job? Yes, he was good at boycotting and shaming hardworking people, but what if he sucked at journalism?
There was a time in the not too distant past when people gained or lost jobs because of their performance skills. The possibility that Maza’s poor quality of work might have instigated the dismissal was not raised for consideration. This announcement used language to suggest that Maza’s dismissal was a result of being attacked by racists and homophobes. The New York Post recently announced that woke journalist Carlos Maza-the man who set off the Vox Adpocalypse and negatively affected the lives of many independent YouTube creators-is no longer working with Vox Media.