Firing journalists over things they wrote as students, without any evidence of bias that's affected their professional work, won't make journalism better, it'll simply make student journalists more afraid to develop their voices and say anything interesting lest they anger a mob.
Unrelatedly, I stand by every word of my junior year Toy Story 3 review.
My protip for student journalists in the current climate is to be the movies editor of your college paper because you get to see movies before they come out and are also unlikely to have your career derailed by your How to Train Your Dragon review (though Twitter may find a way!)
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1395492057242800134
My protip for news organizations is that your hiring and firing decisions should be made by a deliberate process, not social media mobs.
I appreciate everyone sharing this thread and sincerely hope that you will join me in condemning this sort of thing when the politics of the target are reversed. The only way we stop this from happening is by setting norms based on principle, not partisanship.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1395487707015618574
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