Anonymous
05/15/2019 10:00
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
This.
In DC it’s starting to feel like Baa-rry-back-to-the-future time.
Exactly. What an embarrassment he was. He had the opportunity to do much, much better for Washingtonians.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 09:57
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Book Lady got her just desserts.
Now it’s time for Metro Felicia to get hers.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 09:56
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
This.
In DC it’s starting to feel like Baa-rry-back-to-the-future time.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 09:33
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Book Lady got her just desserts.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 09:13
Subject: Re:Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Farejumping, eating, drinking. Welcome to metro! Please report and suspicious packages.
Oh yeah!
Anonymous
05/15/2019 09:05
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
Don't ever go to Paris - you'll hate it.
Most Parisians would agree that it isn’t what it used to be, and not for the better.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 07:38
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
Don't ever go to Paris - you'll hate it.
I already won’t go back to France, but for different reasons.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 07:37
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
This.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 07:33
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
Don't ever go to Paris - you'll hate it.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 07:15
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Not ticketing people for spitting in the Metro is the clearest indication that DC has rejoined the Third World.
Anonymous
05/15/2019 07:10
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:The author was mad that the metro employee told her off. So, she "one upped" her and put her on blast. Publisher thought hell, is she going to do this everytime she gets bad customer service, or gets told to stay in her lane? This is nothing but a drama queen who will attract negative attention for the few thousand dollars that she is going to bring in. Nope, she's not worth it.
Do you disagree with all of unstuck metro, or just this post? I am personally uncomfortable with outing people- at the very least blur faces inphotos. But metro is also a shared public service with norms and rules and it is headed in a really bad direction. I think some pressure to maintain a standard is good. If it fills up with farejumpers (who cant be tracked if they then commit a crime - and oh yeah, there are crimes including rape and murder on metro), food waste, rats, and now theyve said people wont be ticketed for spitting (is this a human need?) I'm not sure who is going to want to ride metro except people with zero other options. And wont be pleasant them.
Anonymous
05/14/2019 22:56
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
The author was mad that the metro employee told her off. So, she "one upped" her and put her on blast. Publisher thought hell, is she going to do this everytime she gets bad customer service, or gets told to stay in her lane? This is nothing but a drama queen who will attract negative attention for the few thousand dollars that she is going to bring in. Nope, she's not worth it.
Anonymous
05/14/2019 22:37
Subject: Re:Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Farejumping, eating, drinking. Welcome to metro! Please report and suspicious packages.
Anonymous
05/14/2019 22:25
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote: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.
You seem to believe the answer is a matter of opinion and should be debated every time. I'm sorry, that's ridiculous.
Well yes - news judgment is a matter of opinion. There are some stories you obviously do or don't cover. And others where editors and reporters would debate whether to cover them.
Do you not get that? I would think it would be obvious. You have judgment and discretion. It's part of what you are valued for as a reporter or an editor.
Anonymous
05/14/2019 22:09
Subject: Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.
Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?
Because she tried to ruin another woman's life and get her fired. She knew what her actions would result in by not only tagging a hate account of WMATA (unsuckdcmetro) but also by tagging WMATA - the woman's employer and identifying the train plus train line the woman was on in addition to a very clear photo of her face.
She wanted to publicly mock and vilify the woman in order to get her fired.
Now the rest of twitter is doing the same to her.
I didn't see the tweet about her kids, but I imagine - trying to get an employee fired and getting her book deal canceled pretty much make them even.
No, one was breaking her workplace rules, but didn't care. Union. She knows she won't get fired. Maybe not her, but it is also well documented that they sleep on the job.
Another was called horrible for what any DC hall monitor would have done. Come on all you DC hall monitors, can you not relate? Rules are for all of us. Otherwise it's chaos.
Rules are for all of us indeed. There is a societal rule against social media bullying. She tried to bully the metro employee for a petty wrongdoing. She got bullied ten fold.
She could have posted all the information without the picture, and things would have been much different. Metro could have reached out to her for the picture if it was interested. Instead she exposed the employee for all to see. She got the same. I feel bad for both women. However, I think the writer deserves the public mess more than the metro employee did. She set out to socially humiliate someone else(she is a big fat liar if she claims she never knew that she was publicly humiliating the metro employee), and she ended up getting even worse public scrutiny. He who lives by the sword...
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