Posted on 06/09/2022 2:34:33 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
The Washington Post has fired national political reporter Felicia Sonmez, The Daily Beast has confirmed, capping off a week’s worth of highly public drama at the paper.
Both the Post and Sonmez did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Sonmez’s apparent exit from the paper comes after a week of WaPo infighting that stoked heated conversations over newsroom inequity and social-media use, with multiple reporters taking shots at one another in public.
The seemingly unending dramatics began late last week when political reporter Dave Weigel retweeted a sexist post about bisexual women. He later apologized but not before Sonmez publicly called him out along with the paper’s management, writing: “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”
Fellow Post reporter Jose A. Del Real then publicly accused Sonmez of “repeated and targeted public harassment of a colleague,” which led to several tweets worth of beefing between the pair until Del Real blocked her.
The ordeal prompted Executive Editor Sally Buzbee issuing a somewhat vague memo telling staffers to play nice. But tensions remained high on Monday as WaPo video technician Breanna Muir reportedly replied-all to the memo to cheer on Sonmez and call out a different colleague for referring to her in a tweet as “Breanna Taylor.” The paper has a “toxic work environment,” Muir wrote in her staff-wide note.
On Tuesday, Buzbee sent out yet another company-wide memo, stating that the paper does “not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues.” Sonmez, meanwhile, continued to tweet, highlighting critical posts from her colleague as a mockery of Buzbee‘s claim to a “collegial workplace.”
Veteran Post reporter Lisa Rein then stepped in to publicly plead with Sonmez: “Please stop.”
That same afternoon, several high-profile Washington Post reporters, including Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker, tweeted about how “proud” they are to work at the newspaper.
That kumbaya moment prompted Sonmez to post a lengthy tread on Thursday noting how “the reporters who issued synchronized tweets this week downplaying the Post’s workplace issues have a few things in common.” She added that they are “All white” and “They are among the ‘stars’ who ‘get away with murder’ on social media.”
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This woman sued the WaPo for discrimination. It just got thrown out in late March. My bet is they have been gathering the documentation to fire her since she first filed her suit. I would also bet she was *trying* to get fired so she could sue again, and file an EEOC complaint.
Anyway the premise that this started when a guy “retweeted a sexist post about bisexual women” is wrong. He was making a joke about women, not bisexual women.
If he sent that via internal email, most companies would discipline him. But is making a joke in public (twitter) a firing offense? Or, does it create a hostile work environment? Of course not.
Totally. But the Daily Beast is...well, you know.
On the plus side, Dave will get to hang with Shoeless Joe, Moonlight, Swede and Chick.
Is there finally a backlash coming against crybully culture?
Fake news ratings are so horrible for President Retard that Bozos has to create his own drama 🤪
I read a blind item that she insinuated that she WAS trying to get fired so she could sue again.
It would not be a moment too soon.
more and more companies seem to be figuring out that getting woke is bad for business.
Oh she will. And she'll fail like the last time. She went apeshit nuclear on a stupid RETWEET of a tweet. This is not professional behavior except inside of a WWE ring.
That same afternoon, several high-profile Washington Post reporters, including Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker, tweeted about how “proud” they are to work at the newspaper.
That kumbaya moment prompted Sonmez to post a lengthy tread on Thursday noting how “the reporters who issued synchronized tweets this week downplaying the Post’s workplace issues have a few things in common.” She added that they are “All white” and “They are among the ‘stars’ who ‘get away with murder’ on social media.”
She has already filed a lawsuit against them which she lost in March.
It is similar to the crazy-hot.
I agree that she was trying to get fired so she could sue again.
We are truly in an era of hysterical ninnies.
“Buzbee sent out yet another company-wide memo, stating that the paper does “not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues.”
Nonsense. It’s well known that communists attack other communists. Then they kill each other. It’s all normal. Another meltdown by the deep state weenies.
What’s the 3rd BI??
I’m a woman and I thought it was HILARIOUS!!
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