Bloomberg Canceled Promotion Campaign for Olivia Nuzzi’s New Show Over Liberal Complaints About Her Criticism of Biden

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New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi had the PR campaign for her new show with Bloomberg canceled over her criticism of President Joe Biden and the “conspiracy” to conceal his deteriorating condition from the American people.

According to Semafor’s Ben Smith , Democrats online successfully killed the planned “splashy” rollout for Nuzzi’s show, Working Capital , by waging a campaign of their own to cancel Nuzzi in the wake of her bombshell article from July, “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden.”

“The interview show, announced with great fanfare in July, wound up being unceremoniously released on Bloomberg’s television network and is available online. But Max reports (and Nuzzi confirms) that plans for a higher-profile rollout of the Bloomberg Originals bet were abruptly scotched after a Nuzzi article about the ‘conspiracy of silence’ around President Joe Biden’s age,” explained Smith. “Her article prompted a group of Democrats on Twitter to call her a racist and tweet at Bloomberg demanding she be fired. They based their claims on some tweets from the Obama years which, if you had no sense of humor or hadn’t been following United States politics at the time, could be understood out of context as being expressions of furious anti-Obama sentiment.”

“They were, in fact, Twitter jokes,” he argued.

Nuzzi was critical of Bloomberg — which declined to comment on the matter — in a statement given to Smith.

“When I write something that agitates the right, I am accused of being a liberal activist. When I write something that agitates the left, I am accused of being a conservative activist. The difference is that mainstream media organizations tend to ignore bad-faith campaigns against reporters led by the right,” she observed. “I have no illusions about massive corporate media entities and their tolerance for even the faintest murmurs of a PR crisis, so I can’t say I was surprised, but I was disappointed.”

“I really believe that if you want to live in a world that is forgiving and where people hold even those they disagree with to the same standards they wish to be held, you can’t cave to mob pressure as a means to protect yourself even when it would be a lot easier to do so,” she concluded. “That’s how this type of culture is formed and maintained and as individuals we get to decide if we think it’s worth enduring a little pain to fight against it.”