New York Times 'cancels editor's contract' after she tweeted she had 'chills' watching Biden land at Joint Base Andrews as America's media competes to suck up to new president

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22 2021 | JENNIFER SMITH

[knighthawk]

The New York Times reportedly canceled an editor's contract after she tweeted that she had 'chills' watching Joe Biden land at Joint Base Andrews the day before the inauguration and slammed Trump for not sending him a government plane.

Lauren Wolfe tweeted on Tuesday: 'Biden landing at Joint Base Andrews now. I have chills.

'The pettiness of the Trump admin not sending a military plane to bring him to D.C. as is tradition is mortifying.

[dfwgator]

The New York Times reportedly canceled an editor's contract after she tweeted that she had 'chills'

"They're multiplyin'....."

[a fool in paradise]

Two Minute Hate over yet?

[rigelkentaurus]

Sounds like she has the CCPvirus.

[Ebenezer]

I don’t understand. I thought NYT would appreciate Smith’s reaction to Biden.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Hey, I just wasn’t feeling well that day. I had chills, but I went to work any way. You can’t fire me for that.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Her firing was a RIF in reality. NYT is bleeding money, and any excuse to trim the fat was good enough. It had nothing to do with Biden, and everything to do with her hefty salary.

[Red Badger]

[sport]

Nope. It hasn’t even begun yet.

[Salamander]

You losin’ control?

[Vision]

Having it out in the open hurts whatever creditability they believe they have.

[Jamestown1630]

'The pettiness of the Trump admin not sending a military plane to bring him to D.C. as is tradition is mortifying.'

Even Acosta pointed out that this wasn't true at all.

[RummyChick]

I dont understand this either. I had to read some of it twice to make sure I wasnt missing some words.

I could understand it if she had said it about Trump instead of Biden.

[livius]

I don’t understand either. They’ve all been gushing like mad in all the media, so she was pretty much par for the course.

[Red Badger]

[nickcarraway]

I don’t get it? How did that insult Biden?

[Terry L Smith]

When a fool in an argument is trying his darnedest to bury you, why give him another shovel to do the job?

When your opposing combatant is making mistakes, why interrupt him?

Re: sending a plane for joe.
(It is a ‘tradition’, not a ‘law’.)

[dfwgator]

It’s a way for them to say, “See, we don’t just fire Trump supporters, we really are neutral.”

Probably was going to be fired anyway.

[Skywise]

You can’t show bias in tweets?

Only the official bias by the times?

[rhinohunter]

I don’t understand. I thought NYT would appreciate Smith’s reaction to Biden.

Perhaps they misinterpreted “I had chills”.

The expression can have totally opposite meanings depending on your tone of voice.