https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/this_great_stage_of_fools.html

In any event, I can’t imagine how difficult it was for Dr. Wolf to totally realign her ideology so as to comport with “her lyin’ eyes”….
(Moreover, I think her posing with—was that an AR-15?—kinda seals the deal, in a manner of speaking.)

File under: …but she’s OUR kook…and a most courageous one at that…

1) Her history is that of an often somewhat nutty (from my point of view) feminist-leftist, including a highly questionable sexual harassment accusation against the literary critic Harold Bloom.

2) The Wikipedia article can fairly be construed as a hit piece, in that it emphasizes the negative almost exclusively. So that tells us a lot about what can happen on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

Still, there is enough there that is pretty definitely true, like the factual errors that caused one of her books to be pulled before distribution in the U.S., to call her general reliability into question, *especially* if that’s what you’re already disposed to think. So I did not share it, as my acquaintances would certainly dismiss it as the ranting of a nut. She’s been considered a nut by some on the left for many years, as shown by this Vox piece from 2014:

https://www.vox.com/2014/10/5/6909837/naomi-wolf-isis-ebola-scotland-conspiracy-theories

As far as I can tell she’s right or mostly right about Jan 6, and I certainly appreciate the apology. But she’s probably not going to make a dent in progressive heads.

Naomi Wolf Demonization Syndrome.
This is often mislabeled as Trump Derangement Syndrome, from the prior Krauthammer Bush Derangement Syndrome and similar demonization against many Republicans: Reagan, Palin, Kavanaugh, Bork, Nixon, even Goldwater.

Demonization feels good – good vs the evil demon.

College demonization against Republicans should result in ending tax exempt status.

But solving the Dem Demonization problem requires identifying it – Demonization.
Democrat Demonization Syndrome.
Dem lies are mostly just “more Dem Demonization”.

It won’t stop until it’s punished.

More publicity with the more accurate Demonization label, will end it sooner.

It’s not her fault the lies were out there. M question is how she missed the fact that, one after the other, after the other, they were all proven untrue.
It would require a sustained effort at segregating one’s information sources to miss that. She didn’t need to watch Fox for a correction,.
Or, if we insist that only Fox and similar outlets were correctives, then how did she miss the fact that they were rarely wrong? She had to have stopped up her ears, more or less metaphorically, to positively, actively avoid such information.
Did/does that not cause some unease in a normal person? NO, NO! DON’T TELL ME ANY OF THAT! I DON’T WANT TO KNOW. I CAN’T ALLOW MYSELF TO HEAR!
How much is that exaggerated from those we know, or at least the most vociferous of those we know on the prog side?

She should not apologize for being the passive target of lies, but for actively seeking to avoid contradictory information. Consciously. Knowingly.

The existing staff were, with the exception of the editor, all from other fields who wound up doing newspaper work because they could write, and it was available. But it meant that we had a very broad, smart (not necessarily educated) crew that had real world experience.

I could see the change coming, though, in the interns. They didn’t have the experience, were uniformly liberal, and thought They Knew Better. 45 years on, the adults in the room have retired or died, and even that generation who were trained by the adults have mostly gone on. Now, the brats are in charge.

https://www.coordinationproblem.org/2019/08/a-fictional-conversation-between-emma-goldman-and-john-reed-a-must-watch-for-anyone-thinking-about-t.html

I’m appreciative of Ms Wolf’s apology. I’ll assume it’s genuine & accept it as such although you’d be forgiven if you shrugged your shoulders & said “So what?” Truly, what’s going to come of it?

But the above sentence is one of those not-so-subtle proofs of leftism-is-a-religious-cult. Her own self-reflective capacity is lost to the hive-mind. We’re in one of those “battles not against flesh & blood” scenarios.

I talked with Tony Snow about it before and after the election. He and his friend, Andrew Ferguson, generally believed that most of their buddies in the news media were honest but biased in their perceptions. After two years of nonstop gaffes, mind-numbing corruption, and scandals galore, Tony said in the summer of 1994 the consensus of everyone in DC was that Bubba and Hillary were a joke (his word).

Then the election shocker happened. And stuff got real. The D team needed the news media to go to bat for them and they did. The only reason the coverage wasn’t as ridiculous back then was because the news media still had journalism pros in charge who realized that blatantly partisan news is not effective propaganda.

They were more effective at propaganda back then because it still sounded like news.