Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times reporter, expresses concerns about the potential consequences of progressive policies in her new book, "Morning After the Revolution."
Former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles is sounding the alarm on the progressive agenda, warning that the mainstream liberal media is playing a crucial role in promoting it. In her new book, "Morning After the Revolution," Bowles addresses a number of topics that she says she previously was not able to investigate and cover as a reporter for the Times, including the origins of COVID-19, youth transgender procedures, and cancel culture.
Bowles' departure from the Times in November 2021 was prompted by her frustration with the constraints placed on her reporting. She explains that at the Times, she was expected to avoid certain topics that were considered "beyond the purview of a Times reporter."
"As a reporter at The Times, it was very frustrating to have to put blinders on my curiosity," she said on "America's Newsroom." "So I set out to write this book and ended up quitting the paper. And each chapter is a little bit of a journey and a feature of what I kind of would have written if I had stayed on staff."
Bowles says that she is not trying to change minds but to simply raise questions and prompt discussion about the impact of progressive policies.
"If you're not looking around and seeing the streets and starting to question some of the ideas that got us to that place, I think you're fooling yourself," she said. "I think you're an absolute fool if you don't do that."
Bowles identifies as neither conservative nor liberal, but simply fair-minded. She believes that it is important to question all ideas, regardless of their political affiliation.
"When you're in the progressive world, as soon as you question any of it, you're called a fascist," she said. "Obviously, I reject the label, but also I just reject the premise that – I think that it's okay to look at San Francisco's DA, who at the time was saying that we shouldn't prosecute crime and we shouldn't put drug dealers in jail or prosecute them because drug dealers are victims, too. It's okay to look at that and say, that's absurd. That's ridiculous."
Bowles also criticizes the liberal media for being too focused on promoting the progressive agenda and not enough on providing objective and balanced reporting.
"Everything has to be for the good of the party," she said. "Everything has to be to benefit the candidate of the moment with the exact politics of the moment. And to go against that is to be doing something very dangerous."
Bowles believes that the liberal media's focus on promoting a particular agenda has made it less credible in the eyes of the public.
"It actually makes them less respected, because people can see that they're not actually being fair or neutral," she said. "And that's damaging to democracy."
Bowles hopes that her book will encourage people to question the status quo and to think critically about the policies that are being implemented in their communities. She believes that it is important to have a diversity of perspectives and to be willing to challenge the accepted narrative.
"I think that the most important thing is to be open to different ideas and to be willing to have your mind changed," she said. "And to be willing to have your mind changed by someone who you don't agree with."
