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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know nothing about this fired reporter, but from where I'm standing the Washington Post looks bad, because they seem to be supporting the first reporter who made an unacceptably misogynist remark. Like PP said, that kind of comment does not exist in a vacuum - for someone to actually type and send this, it means he often thinks like that, and feels secure enough in his employment and colleagues to publish those remarks. It means the Post is a shitty place for a woman to work. He should have been fired first.
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This is an uninformed take.  The reporter who retweeted the joke (retweeted, he didn't take the time to type it and send it) apologized, took the tweet down, and was suspended for a month without pay.  That's hardly "supporting."  Speculation that he has don't this repeatedly is just that - speculation with no foundation.  Somenz wasn't terminated because the chastised Weigel, she was terminated because of a continued public back and forth on Twitter, including subsequent interactions with other Post reporters.

I tend to agree that she either was hoping to be fired, or thought she was bulletproof because of her prior lawsuit.  [/quote]

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