If the WaPo ran this because they thought it was news, that’s a farce. But if they ran it as a PR strategy — get ahead of it, frame it so this woman bears the brunt, not our employees — that’s a scandal. Marty Baron and the Post staff owe us an explanation.
This is damaging to the reputation of the whole industry, a newspaper using its news pages as a strategic tool, violating its own editorial standards, and getting someone fired in the process.
It’s so chickenshit too, total silence from the Post about this story. Even the authors haven’t tweeted it! Where are you, @mffisher and @TrentPost? Do you stand behind your work?
