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#rehireLauren is trending wildly on Twitter at #6, and many journalists are outraged.
Apparently the reporter, Lauren Wolfe, was also stalked and harassed before being fired.
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FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)This is the reporter they fired, after her dangerous and dedicated reporting on the violent rape of women in Syria and about another even more horrific story I won't describe here (but will add a trigger warning because it's mentioned in this thread linked to below). She got the perpetrators of that second story arrested. After accomplishing all that, she sent a tweet saying that she got chills seeing the arrival of a new president. And she got fired.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1353124692069019649.html
Squinch
(50,901 posts)Beakybird
(3,330 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)KayF
(1,345 posts)I cancelled last year via chat, they had a list of reasons for cancelling, i chose "editorial content", they directed me to a live person to get the details.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 24, 2021, 04:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Bc there is a pandemic going on. Thats a level of entitlement I cant process. People are getting fired every day.
As to whether she should have been fired or not: its a bit severe. But reporters spend too much time opining on Twitter and that should stop.
FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)They had no trouble with Maggie Haberman promoting Trump for years because she had very special access to Trump.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)She reported on the man and what he was thinking, such as it was. She did her job.
FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)Maggie Haberman is known as MAGA Haberman and Trumps stenographer for obvious reasons.
For years she wrote puff pieces on the Trumps. Maggies own mother worked for a company that promoted the Kushners.
triron
(21,984 posts)kcr
(15,313 posts)jcgoldie
(11,610 posts)Haberman was a Trump shill from the beginning. She perpetually tried to normalize Trump no matter how outrageous inappropriate or unethical his actions. Willful ignorance of that is just revisionist history.
mac56
(17,564 posts)boom
+1
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)Sid
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)oldsoftie
(12,486 posts)Reporters being guests on late night talk shows. Reporters being made part of social events.
A true reporter reports the news & the facts without opining.
twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)what she wrote could be interpreted different ways.
babylonsister
(171,029 posts)chills, too, finally realizing we're seeing what we'd hoped for for so long. How else could this be interpreted?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)Biden different type of chills. I missed the first tweet. Now I see.
thesquanderer
(11,970 posts)...the prospect of Trump running again in 2024 gives me chills. Chills can be good or bad.
Iggo
(47,534 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)But I'm glad she brought those tweets to light instead of hiding them and reports them for harassment.
Guess they're not so much for unity /s
ProfessorGAC
(64,827 posts)Is there a condition of employment we don't know about?
Something like reporters not offering opinion, especially on other media?
That hardly seems a fireable offense, but I do think this points to a downside of social media fascination.
Her job was to report for her employer. Perhaps staying off Twitter, except to promote her stories published in her paper would be an appropriate approach.
As to the foolish & vulgar personal attacks; there's not a defense to that by anyone.
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jaxexpat
(6,795 posts)It's because he's a decent, hardworking, generous spirited and respectable guy that people get into the gratitude and adoration thing, complete with chills, tingles and tears. It's all Biden's fault. Much to the detriment of this unfortunate, intrepid reporter.
He should be removed ASAP lest more succumb to his unconscionable tactic of blatant honesty and thus find themselves believing in America and its institutions again. Such a trajectory, if left unchecked, could lead to the disaster of a functional government working toward a just society for the benefit of its citizens. I mean, who's going to pay for this? Will the beneficiaries have sufficiently suffered or adequately toiled in an uphill struggle to enrich the 1% of their peers to justify expectation of a well-deserved reward? I shudder to imagine what our founders would think? What will future historians make of this mess? How many will complain, insensitive to the sarcasm behind every word of this missive? Entertained by this diatribe of facetious concept so close to the heart of good will and well intention?
Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)Each should be known for what they are.
RVN VET71
(2,689 posts)There has to be more to her getting bounced than the tweet. The tweet is plain vanilla. It should not even have been a factor.
The Times owes it to itself and its readership to explain what is being touted as a cold blooded act of political pandering.
There has to be more to this.
MichMan
(11,864 posts)One could actually argue the opposite
RVN VET71
(2,689 posts)They may not have the responsibility to address the matter, but they certainly wouldnt have to go into graphic details. A simple:She was not dismissed because of the tweet would suffice, followed by other than that, we will not go into personnel matters, etc.
Unless, of course, it was the tweet. If it were, I may be done with the Times.
Mme. Defarge
(8,006 posts)And we probably wont ever know the whole story.
PatSeg
(47,239 posts)There could be more to this firing than we know and yes, the New York Times should clarify their reasons. Though they are not obligated to do so, it could benefit their image if they did. I find it hard to believe that tweet was the cause.
lark
(23,059 posts)I unsubscribed from them years ago because of the way they pushed the Hillary emails and have never gone back. This is beyond ridiculous that the editor would let anti-American reich wingers cause this young woman to lose her job. If it had been drumpf, not one thing would have happened. So, now, until I hear she's rehired, I won't ever read anything from that rag.
UpInArms
(51,279 posts)Here is a wiki on them
List of controversies involving The New York Times
1 New York Citys hushed-up lead poisoning epidemic of 1848 to 1992
2 The Russian Revolution, 19171920
3 Los Alamos investigation
4 The 1619 Project
5 Anthrax attacks
6 Staff Resignations
6.1 Jayson Blair
6.2 Judith Miller
6.2.1 Second Iraq War
6.2.2 Valerie Plame affair
6.3 Bari Weiss
7 National Security Agency revelations delayed
8 Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
9 MoveOn.org ad controversy
10 Corporate-influence concerns
11 Duke University lacrosse case reporting
12 John McCain-lobbyist article criticism
13 Alessandra Stanley errors
14 Anti-Indian sentiment
15 Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi
16 Anti-British sentiment
16.1 Publishing leaked photos from the Manchester bombing
16.2 Yorkshire pudding
16.3 London restaurants
16.4 Claims of a racism and extremism
16.5 British beaches
17 Putin-Trump kiss cartoon
18 Anti-Chinese sentiment
19 Hiring of Sarah Jeong
20 Coverage of the Holocaust
21 Accusations of anti-Semitism
21.1 Anti-Semitic cartoons
21.2 Anti-Semitic political editor
22 Accusation of plagiarism
23 See also
24 References
25 External links
Old Terp
(464 posts)She broke into a Happy Dance and started singing "Hit the Road Jack" when AF1 went wheels up and took Trump away, that would still be okay. Okay, so that's what I did and I suspect most of the world.
FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)hay rick
(7,584 posts)Wolfe also criticized outgoing President Donald Trump, calling what she said was his decision not to send a military plane to bring Biden to D.C. for the inauguration was mortifying and childish. She later deleted the tweet after learning that Biden had chosen to take his own plane to D.C.
Still don't think the original tweet or the combination of the two is worth firing.
FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)The outrage machine might not have had as much to be outraged about.
DemUnleashed
(633 posts)Washington Post, please hire Lauren Wolfe!!
Beringia
(4,316 posts)I guess therapists are the last safe refuge. Not even them, because they have the power to declare you incompetent. The Royal Family tried to make out that Diana was mentally deranged. Just got done watching the Crown on Netflix
marie999
(3,334 posts)servermsh
(913 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)He would never put up political signs nor discuss politics with anyone that was not a very close friend or family. If her job was straight up news reporting then tweeting out her political views under her real name is a problem. If she was an opinion writer then the rules are different.
Perhaps Im old school. DU is the only social media I do. Because I dont the world knowing my beliefs.
Turin_C3PO
(13,896 posts)but Trump is such an aberration given that he attempted a coup to stay in power that I dont see it as a problem even if straight news reporters make it known that theyre glad hes gone.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)ananda
(28,831 posts)!!!
MichMan
(11,864 posts)Even if it was for the tweet (which we don't know), people are fired for social media posts all the time. When it happens to a a RW, we usually even celebrate it here.
ananda
(28,831 posts)I don't think an employee can fire a person
on such flimsy grounds.
It doesn't exactly qualify as hate speech or
immoral conduct, now does it?
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... be easily proven.
This is stupid on its face
Vivienne235729
(3,376 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)FakeNoose
(32,556 posts)dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)NYTimes does some good journalism, but also prints some irresponsible BS. Lots of "let's try to understand the disgruntled Trump base," but very little, " Let's try to understand Obama or Biden or Hillary voters.
This tweet was innocuous and not even necessarily partisan. A new president landing can be exciting. I'll bet others have done worse there and weren't fired.