Video Emerges of the Condé Nast Offices ‘Confrontation,’ As Infantile Woke Staff Earned Their Pink Slips
To start, if you missed the melodrama, the announcement was made earlier this week that the hyper-leftist source Teen Vogue was being diluted, with much of its editorial team being let go, and any lingering staff and content would be folded into the parent publication. Over the years, that portal has been the source of some aggressively left-wing content aimed at the formative class of the country, pushing everything from sex worker acceptance, abortion activism, and even heavily promoting communist positions.
Following the announcement, news emerged on Thursday of an uproar taking place inside the Condé Nast offices, involving members from other publications under the publishing banner, expressing their displeasure with the shuttering of this outlet. This confrontation was said to involve the director of Human Resources, Stan Duncan, and after he refused to engage the employees, they persisted. This led to the dismissal of a handful of staff, including those from WIRED Magazine, The New Yorker, and Bon Appétit.
This item tracks with others from a variety of media outlets over the years, where the new class of staffers arrive with a sense of unearned power and entitlement, behaving as if they wield some level of influence well above their pay grade. It has been rather pronounced at the New York Times, where, you should recall, there was a staff revolt over Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton writing an editorial. The Washington Post saw some uprisings when the editorial managers and executives made decisions such as choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate last year.
Seen this summer at the New York Times was another internal scuffle when a journalist dared to report accurately about Zohran Mamdani. Reporter Ben Ryan posted a piece about Mamdani declaring he was a black male on a college application. This led POC columnist Jamelle Bouie to lash out personally at Ryan, and the paper was compelled to issue an explanation about the whole affair.
All of this, because Ryan was accurate. Not only did he provide the evidence of this appropriation, but Mamdani had even confirmed that he had actually filled out his application in that manner.
So this news coming out of another publisher’s offices is hardly surprising, and now it gets more illustrative. For reasons possibly related to making a case for their defense, a video of this confrontation in the Condé Nast offices has emerged, and it displays all of the dysfunction we have heard about over the years. We see these staffers behaving like insufferable, entitled scolds who disregard the directives from their boss, behaving like they are owed some sort of audience. It is bewildering.
What is most surprising is that Duncan did not coddle these cranks, something that has been seen far too often in these media maelstroms. He directed them properly to get back to work, and after a time, he took the appropriate steps and let go of these demanding brats.
Now we also get a window into the possible motivations behind this “revolt.” Apparently, one of those involved in the melodrama was romantically involved with one of the dismissed Teen Vogue employees; both figures place themself in the categories of the revered activist subcultures seen today.
What we see on display has to be considered encouraging. For once, we have executives who appear tired of the disruptive and unproductive behavior of the coddled and clueless activist workforce. What these activist-minded and power-mad underlings fail to grasp is that they were plying their trade in an industry facing market pressures and, if they are not contributing effectively to the fortunes of the company, they are now regarded as a drain.
Media outlets can no longer tolerate those who are negatively impacting operations. The days of woke daycare centers in the office are coming to an end, and these braying ratchet-jaws are finding out that they are not indispensable – in this climate, they are disposable.
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