USA Today demoted me for a tweet — because the awakened newsroom hasn't been in contact with its readers.

Ganette, the nation's largest newspaper chain with over 200 daily newspapers, is leaving the section of opinions you're reading this month. Was announced. .. The editor of the liberal edit page for USA Todaysaid it failed to "evolve". 

I'm USA Today's Deputy Editor, and I know something about Ganett's evolution until August, when I was demoted after tweeting. "Pregnant people are also women" 

A "news reporter" that covers diversity, fairness and inclusiveness shows how trans-gender men get pregnant The idea was banned because I wrote a detailed story. I exacerbated my sins against this new legitimacy by calling the idea that a man can become pregnant an "opinion." 

When I wanted to continue working at USA Today, my boss contacted me. These offensive tweets had to be removed because they were distressing to LGBTQ activists and staff journalists.

I've been an opinion journalist for 30 years now — I thought I was allowed to have an opinion. The idea that it is women who become pregnant has changed from scientific facts to opinions and, in a blink of an eye, complete falsehood. Nevertheless, it is my opinion that women become pregnant. After all, women come with all the jewelry, including the vagina, uterus, ovaries, and mammary glands.

Don't get me wrong. I want nothing but transgender and non-binary people to live a free and fulfilling life, work peacefully and pursue happiness as they deserve. In my personal life, I love one of them.

However, the LGBTQ employee resource group and the "diversity" committee of the newsroom thought I should be dismissed. It worries me. No, I'm not worried. All right. I am a Sishetero Caucasian male with all the privileges associated with it, as I learned in the diversity training mandated by Ganett. Even complaining on my behalf, as I learned in Ganett's training, would be a microaggression.

I'm worried that Gannett's shareholders are being taken to the ride. Ganett's story is that newspapers from dozens of states are becoming a USA Today network that embraces diversity, reflects the community, and bubbles the unique and accurate view of America paid by millions.

But our journalism looks like America What if it was written by healthy people, like the Harvard English Department? What if we look like a community but don't think about it or share our values ​​and priorities? Readers will definitely notice.

Gannett's top editors and publishers fill the company with young college graduate executives who share a narrow "awakened" ideologythat differs from the values ​​of most readers. I'm doing my best. In the tightly divided United States, Ganett has a total of one local conservative staff columnist. There is one conservative edit page left on the network. In recent years, we've seen the pages of conservative editorials in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Oklahoma City replaced by bland corporate liberalism. There are no conservative editorial cartoonists left on the network. 

Gannett's problem is not that the Opinion section hasn't "evolved". The reader doesn't care what he has evolved into.

I don't know what's happening in the news and sports departments across the network, but I know what's happening in the Opinion section. Until August, I read daily notes of public opinion made across the network, and most days nothing by the conservative staff of local newspapers. From time to time, USA Today's Opinion section has one from a freelancer, or one of three right-wing staff at the time. (Currently there are two.)

At USA Today, we know that members of the Newsroom's "Diversity" committee can edit the content of "problematic" opinions. increase. Members of this intolerant "diversity" committee try to take root in unpublished articles and spike the number of articles that go against the agenda. Some controversial conservative columns that go through the gauntlets need to match content that is more obedient to the ideology of diversity. Local design center staff (people laying out papers) can kill conservative columns selected by local opinion editors.

If awakened news department staff are influencing the news, half of the potential subscribers don't have the opportunity to see their opinions expressed fairly. An example of what's happening in USA Today's news section is enough to tell how bad the gap between regular readers and our DEI-inspired ideology has gone.

Gannett and USA Today's top leaders have, of course, focused on the company's $ 1 billion debt and quarterly revenue, but have lost control of the newsroom. Narrow political agenda. It won't be long before it reaches its final bottom line.

David Mastio, Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of USA Today is Editor-in-Chief of StraightArrowNews.com.