Oh look. She blocked me. 🙄 
She was a contract editor at the Times & was apparently fired after that tweet got criticism. Now folks on the left are claiming Glenn Greenwald & a “right wing mob” got her fired & that’s cancel culture, esp they say since other Times people didn’t get fired for misconduct./1
If it’s “cancel culture,” then it’s cancel culture by the left - the Times fired her, not the Right. And, since when does the Times listen to the Right? The criticism of the tweet was justified. It clearly showed bias & a lack of judgement for expressing it. /2
The Times was going to be saddled w:the accusation of bias for everything she did for them going forward. Newspapers can’t have that. It’s antithetical to what they’re supposed to be. It’s a different issue from personal misconduct by employees. That’s not a proper comparison. /3
With misconduct, the employee can apologize, promise to do better, be put on probation & given a chance to prove they’ve changed their ways. Bias doesn’t lend itself to that paradigm. Media people should not be surprised to find themselves being fired for bias. /4
That’s not cancel culture. Finally, Greenwald criticized her tweet - as did I - but I did not see anyone, including him, calling for her to be fired. /5
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