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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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Appearances count and the Post now appears to have let the man get away with a slap on the wrist (a month's suspension) while the woman was fired. Even if she [i]does[/i] tend to continue escalating and/or she has filed lawsuits previously--even if those things are true, even if she herself is problematic in other ways, the appearance now is very much that the Post is backing him and tossing her to the curb for complaining. That is the image that will stick to the Post. I do believe the whole situation is probably far more gray than anyone outside it realizes, and there are likely to be longer-term frictions between people that are at play and were likely at play before even the initial tweeted "joke." I have worked in several newsrooms as a reporter and editor and I know there's always more to these blow-ups than ever gets covered outside the newsroom. But what matters in the end is the public perception, which is that the Post treated the man and the woman according to different standards. And that's unacceptable. [/quote]

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