Absolutely shocking that @nytimes fired Lauren Wolfe for her tweet when Thomas Friedman and Bret Stephenson together have fallen on their faces countless times all over their pages; forget about Twitter. Really shocking gender bias, caving to bad faith criticism and just cruelty.
Lauren did not deserve to lose her job because a mob of right-wing trolls and Glenn Greenwald rightly bet that a woman showing vulnerability while witnessing an historic event would be a popular target for partisan scorn and draw disdain from employers. Very sad to see this.
P.S. if she were a man none of this would be happening, and I will block any man who tries to argue with me about this. Just accept that you don't know anything about being a woman in the media and think before you @
For more on being a woman in journalism, here's a rant I wrote, inspired by Lauren. There is a culture in the media that, mostly without any self-awareness at all, is deeply unfair to women. It's long past due for a reckoning of this matter, in my book.
https://twitter.com/SulomeAnderson/status/1353045737165082626?s=20
P.S. the media is far from the only industry that has this issue. Ask the women who lost 140,000 jobs during the pandemic, while men gained 16,000. The statistics are clear, the problem is real, and it's time to address it. edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/eco…
omg I just realized I called him Bret Stephenson 😂
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