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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sonmez, who in 2021 sued the paper for discrimination (the suit was recently dismissed; she plans to appeal), has been outspoken over the past week about issues related to inequity in the newsroom.

In her public comments Sonmez had been highly critical of The Post's leadership, including Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, along with many of her colleagues.

At times, some of her colleagues went on Twitter to plead with Sonmez to stop attacking The Post on social media.

Jose A. Del Real, a reporter at The Post, responded on Twitter Saturday to Sonmez's initial tweet. Del Real said Weigel's tweet was "terrible and unacceptable."

"But," he added, "rallying the internet to attack him for a mistake he made doesn't actually solve anything. We all mess up in some way or another. There is such a thing as challenging with compassion."

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/09/media/felicia-sonmez-washington-post/index.html

She sounds awful.[/quote]

Somnez tweeted a pic of Weigel’s retweet. She then tweeted pics of people criticizing and threatening her. That’s when Del Real replied to her tweets.

She replied to Del Real’s tweets and then the internet mob came for Del Real. I don’t think she’s to blame for Twitter attacks on Del Real and Weigel isn’t at fault for Twitter attacks on Somnez. But Del Real felt she was responsible—guess he didn’t like being on the receiving end of threats that female journalists regularly get.

Somnez could’ve handled it better but the Post was clearly protecting Weigel and I can see how she grew increasingly outraged. [/quote]

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