Tension at The Washington Post

Yes.

 

Turn the WaPo newsroom into an F1/Netflix-style show.

People will watch. And they will better understand the work done by journalists.

 

They'll watch. They'll still have no understanding (and no desire to have an understanding) about the work done by journalists.

 

They'll just wonder why the Post cost little Brianna a scholarship.

 

Thanks for the explainer, @The Big Ragu. It's poor form for colleagues to be ripping each other publicly, much like it would be if athletes on the same team were beefing on Twitter.

 

Yes, Weigel as a reporter should not have retweeted what he did, but good God, obviously it was a joke.

The need to publicly shame someone relentlessly for a damn mistake, to me, is just so selfish and self-serving. Not to mention self-defeating. All Somnez is doing is opening herself up to be publicly humiliated for some mistake she's going to make, or already has made.

But then I suppose she can claim how journalism has given her PTSD, like Taylor Lorenz.

Twitter has totally destroyed credibility for so many journalists, IMO. It can be a useful tool when strictly used as a reporting mechanism, but once you insert yourself into everything, as high-profile journalists are wont to do because they're often obsessed with their own high profile, you destroy your credibility.

A little professionalism goes a long way.

 

The issue here is the millennial crop who a.) always got orange slices AND the trophies, b.) who are still young enough to not see any shades of gray and c.) probably never will because there is at least one person in the vast Internet echo chamber who will praise them for being as pure as white snow. When I was younger and said something stupid, I said it to someone else directly and that person told me I was an idiot. A lot of the sub-30s have no face-to-face human interaction, so they’re not called out on their BS. If they are, they play the victim card and claim they were bullied.

 

Being reported by the Daily Beast than Sonmez is out at the Post. Didn't say if it was her idea or theirs.

 

Bi Felicia

 

Good. I hope the bitch was fired.