Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

I said it before and I’ll say it again - the entitles c*nt isn’t the one calling the person out. It’s the one doing something wrong.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

I said it before and I’ll say it again - the entitles c*nt isn’t the one calling the person out. It’s the one doing something wrong.

+100

-1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

I said it before and I’ll say it again - the entitles c*nt isn’t the one calling the person out. It’s the one doing something wrong.

Calling someone out for eating on a metro by posting their picture is doing something wrong. You don't get your face on tweeter every time you mess up at work do you?
They were both entitled. And none of them deserved the consequences.

[Anonymous]

Should a Washington Post journalist get fired
if he documents a crime in action?
Or some kind of bad behavior in public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Should a Washington Post journalist get fired
if he documents a crime in action?
Or some kind of bad behavior in public?

The answer is that it depends.

When you work in a newsroom, you are expected to exercise news judgment. Is something newsworthy or not? Will you do more good than harm with this story, or more harm than good? Is there a question that matters to your readers you are attempting to answer?

There's no black and white answer to whether something is newsworthy - it requires good judgment, a sense of what is important and interesting in the right balance.

Even here: A reporter could legitimately do a piece on Metro employees eating on the train. But it wouldn't likely just be like this - just posting a photo and saying, "HEY LOOK AT THIS METRO EMPLOYEE." You'd need a hook, you'd need a puzzle to solve. So, like, you could ask, is this common? If so why - because they don't care about the rules, because they know the rules don't matter, because they don't have time to eat somewhere else, because they're jerks who like rubbing it int he faces of those who can't eat on the train? I would say given the potential consequences of showing a Metro employee eating on the train, you probably would not just use a candid photo in your story here - you'd probably use stock imagery, or blur the person's face, or do something that would not make that person the focus.

The calculus changes if the Metro employee is, say, someone famous. Let's say it's an ex-TV star now working for Metro, who's spotted eating on the train. Then you'd probably say that a photo with a caption is enough for newsworthiness. Someone being or having been famous opens them up to more scrutiny and more public interest. Then it's mostly just a weird news story, in that case - not really news news.

And so on.

source: I used to be a reporter in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Should a Washington Post journalist get fired
if he documents a crime in action?
Or some kind of bad behavior in public?

The answer is that it depends.

When you work in a newsroom, you are expected to exercise news judgment. Is something newsworthy or not? Will you do more good than harm with this story, or more harm than good? Is there a question that matters to your readers you are attempting to answer?

There's no black and white answer to whether something is newsworthy - it requires good judgment, a sense of what is important and interesting in the right balance.

Even here: A reporter could legitimately do a piece on Metro employees eating on the train. But it wouldn't likely just be like this - just posting a photo and saying, "HEY LOOK AT THIS METRO EMPLOYEE." You'd need a hook, you'd need a puzzle to solve. So, like, you could ask, is this common? If so why - because they don't care about the rules, because they know the rules don't matter, because they don't have time to eat somewhere else, because they're jerks who like rubbing it int he faces of those who can't eat on the train? I would say given the potential consequences of showing a Metro employee eating on the train, you probably would not just use a candid photo in your story here - you'd probably use stock imagery, or blur the person's face, or do something that would not make that person the focus.

The calculus changes if the Metro employee is, say, someone famous. Let's say it's an ex-TV star now working for Metro, who's spotted eating on the train. Then you'd probably say that a photo with a caption is enough for newsworthiness. Someone being or having been famous opens them up to more scrutiny and more public interest. Then it's mostly just a weird news story, in that case - not really news news.

And so on.

source: I used to be a reporter in DC.

It's very simple. Metro employees need to model good behavior for other passengers. Those who so flagrantly act unlawfully and violate Metro prohibitions shouldn't work at Metro any longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's wrong to police black people for living while black. I also think it's sad if we can't call out bad behavior if the person committing it is a minority. While it was foolish to use social media the way the author did, she should not be vilified to this degree, lose books deals, etc. Over reaction.

There's an expression: If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime.

It's quite simple. Follow the rules. Obey the law. Stay out of trouble. Act civilly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, they've now changed the rules because enforcement us too hard/out style. I cant believe how the woke hipsters have discovered our city, and are doing their best to turn it into a trashheap. Look what we have to look forward to... a trashheap of vermin and mayhem like NY. Well, have fun with your "green commute" hipsters. I no longer ride metro. Such a shame.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/05/13/disgusting-subway-car/

More like back to the future, with New York City during the Mayor David Dimwit era, as the model.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't policing while black. It's policing while doing something wrong. As unsuck said "woke Twitter is the worst Twitter."

Unsuck has always been against metro, its unions, and transit proponents in general.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/13/what-happened-to-unsuck-dc-metro/

In other words, it's been for better service quality, safety, accountability and the transit riders.

[Anonymous]

I took a photo the other day of another Metro employee eating in a train. I'm going to send it to Unsuck. They can start publishing the photos (hopefully with nametags visible) of Metro employees behaving badly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these people must not be old enough to remember the days when Metro cops would cite and/or arrest people for eating on Metro. Remember the girl arrested for eating fries? In that context, seeing a Metro worker eating and then defensively telling people to mind their own business would have triggered a lot of people. It just represents the lack of care that many Metro employees have for the customers and for the system. If you've lived here a long time, you might just be done with all of that. Plus some of us are rule followers and we're sick of watching the breakers take advantage. How many of us have had to throw out food or drink on the way into the station?

+1.

It's like the criminals have taken over the city.

You weren't in/around DC in the 80's I see.

In Iowa politicians kiss up to the farm bloc. But in DC, the local politicos kiss up to the cell block.

It's beginning to feel like Barry time again in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So now you can eat, drink, spit and fare jump in metro???? This is change wfor the better??

You can do whatever you want so long as you mind your business and don't use your personal social media account to defame others. That is change for the better.

Huh? If you're a criminal then its a change for the better.

[Anonymous]

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Why don't metro eaters EVER put their garbage in the trash?

We should put Metro eaters in the trash.

[Anonymous]

You can be sure that Metro Felicia now feels entitled to eat her greasy fast food whenever and wherever she wants. And you can mind you own business!

[Anonymous]

After 34 pages guess what?






Book deal.





Gone.