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2022-06-10 -Great Cultural Revolution
The Washington Post Fires Felicia Sonmez Amid Week of Infighting
[DailyBeast] 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.

The Post declined to comment. Sonmez declined to comment.
For once. This bitch has been trying to get fired or take control for weeks now
Sonmez’s 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 each other in public.

Somnez was emailed a termination letter, according to The New York Times, pointing to “misconduct that includes insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.”

“We cannot allow you to continue to work as a journalist representing The Washington Post,” the letter said.

The Washington Post Guild declined to discuss Sonmez’s firing in a statement Thursday, but it did warn that workers should only be disciplined with “just cause.”
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Previously...
Washington Post ‘clusterf–k’: Staffers fume at reporter Felicia Sonmez for ‘pouring gas on the fire’

[NYPost] Washington Post staffers said the chaos sparked by Twitter battles between Felicia Sonmez and other reporters over the suspension of Dave Weigel was a “clusterf–k” that has been made worse by her “pouring gasoline on the fire and inviting people to watch.”

The comments came a day before the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet apparently had enough of Sonmez’s tweetstorms and reportedly fired her.

In recent days, Sonmez, who recently lost a discrimination lawsuit that she filed against her newspaper, has defied management’s edict to rein in her Twitter attacks on colleagues.

On Thursday — hours before reports surfaced of that the paper had canned her — she slammed reporters for “downplaying the Post’s workplace issues” after they praising the “collegial” atmosphere in the newsroom.
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Posted by badanov 2022-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Wrong move - should've given her the Weigel treatment (one month suspension without pay) and forced her hand that way.
Posted by Raj 2022-06-10 00:08||   2022-06-10 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Sheesh Raj, it's not always about the unemployment claim, they always can be appealed. Let her go, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-06-10 00:27||   2022-06-10 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 She went from SJW policing speech, to attacking the integrity of the Washington Post itself. She said, unless you do everything I say, you're bigots. It's the natural end-game of hard left political indoctrination from HR. How can you accept their premises and not end up doing what Felicia did?

Posted by Pholing Crererong6639 2022-06-10 02:05||   2022-06-10 02:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Not even the Harvard pedigree could have saved her.
Posted by badanov 2022-06-10 03:38||   2022-06-10 03:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Ace has his own unique take on L'affaire Sonmez.
Posted by badanov 2022-06-10 03:59||   2022-06-10 03:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The problems you create for yourself when you believe you are your own god.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-10 06:28||   2022-06-10 06:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Noone's going to say it now? OK....
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-10 11:46||   2022-06-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Bye Felicia!
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-10 11:46||   2022-06-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Bi Felicia!
Posted by Frank G 2022-06-10 11:47||   2022-06-10 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the original joke was inaccurate. It’s not necessarily an either/or situation.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-06-10 12:05||   2022-06-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#11 To the Washington Compost’s defense they can expect collegiality when everyone is from the same background and ideology.
Posted by Airandee 2022-06-10 13:16||   2022-06-10 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Getting fired by WAPO is like Brer Rabbit getting thrown into the briar patch.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-06-10 16:49||   2022-06-10 16:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Turds float, so she'll wash up in a cushy job somewhere.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-10 16:55||   2022-06-10 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 That's some funny there Frank G!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-06-10 21:57||   2022-06-10 21:57|| Front Page Top

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