USA Today Pregnant With Woke Abuse?

So, there’s still hope for “journalism” as one Ex-USA Today editor tells truth about woke paper’s reporting saying, “The place has gone off the rails” after it used term “pregnant people” to include “pregnant men.”

As David Mastio told Fox News, he had gotten into opinion writing because he is not the kind of journalist who can keep his “mouth shut.” As it happens, the then-deputy editorial page editor for the nation’s largest newspaper saw a news alert for a USA Today story about the CDC approving a Covid vaccine for “pregnant people”. The characterization “just sent me around the bend,” Mastio said. “I knew there was a movement inside the paper to stop saying pregnant women and start saying pregnant people to be more inclusive of the men who get pregnant … You know, I just needed to say something.” So, he tweeted, “people who are pregnant are also women,” which he said drew anger from the LGBTQ Employee Resource Group and the paper’s newsroom “diversity” cte.

USA Today was gracious in not firing Mastio? The bastion of free speech demoted him to columnist after threatening him with a huge pay cut. He says he thinks he’d have gotten worse if he hadn’t been a flaming Trump critic. After a year of being “investigated” internally and otherwise treating him as an outcast, Mastio took a position & found happiness with start-up outlet Straight Arrow News. His saga verbatim can be read in his op ed recently appearing in The New York Post. My take away: The man’s honesty restores a little of my faith in what used to be known as “Old School Journalism.”

Davd Soul