As news of Bryant’s passing spread on Sunday, political reporter Felicia Sonmez had tweeted a 2016 article from the Daily Beast about a former sexual assault accusation made against the NBA star, followed by a description of the subsequent harassment she’d faced because of that post and a defense of her decision to share the story.
The Washington Post Guild issued a statement Monday signed by more than 150 reporters slamming the decision. The paper has “failed to offer a clear explanation of why she was placed on leave — to Felicia or to anyone else,” it read, adding: “We are concerned by The Post’s unwillingness to be transparent about this issue, and alarmed by the implication that reporters will be penalized for talking about any topic not on their beat.
The suspension was “misguided,” the paper’s media critic Erik Wemple wrote in an op-ed. By his own read of the Post’s social media policy, her tweet would if anything “appear to invite a pat on the back from management.”
The accuser was proven wrong on multiple facts and even her own friends came out and said she was looking for money. That Daily Beast article was also proven to be factually incorrect. So shouldn’t journalists be listing those facts instead of blindly crying metoo here.
As well you should be. It was the wrong call.
If they can’t understand why she was suspended, maybe they should be too
Good that she was let go. There is a time and place for everything. A person just died, you don’t need to take the worst of their life and throw it back at a time of mourning. It was uncouth at minimum.
Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality, even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling She's not wrong
Amazon Post is a joke and always will be as long as Bezos owns it....show me an article critical of Amazon and I’ll change my mind.
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