‘It’s a shot at my reputation’: Lauren Wolfe reacts to NYT’s statement about her dismissal — Washington Post Headline:

Lauren Wolfe made no ripples last May when she started as a freelance editor at the New York Times. She worked three to six days a week as part of the paper’s “live updates” team, covering coronavirus briefings, racial justice protests and the November elections. In addition, she bylined stories on Kellyanne Conway’s positive coronavirus test, Minnesota’s elections and the worldwide covid-19 death toll.

None of that work, however, drew the sort of attention that Wolfe aroused with a Jan. 19 tweet: “Biden landing at Joint Base Andrews now. I have chills,” she wrote the day before the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris. Writer Glenn Greenwald, formerly of the Intercept, ripped the tweet:

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Just Saying

By Raul Hernandez

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I know how Ms.Wolfe must feel. The NYT has taken hypocrisy to new heights.

Ever been around a group of journalists after a few beers. I have.

They talk like drunken pirates splitting up the booty from a raided ship. It’s ain’t pretty. I never met a human being without biases, although many try to pretend they are free from all prejudice and favoritism.

This brings me to the NYT comments section.

Ever try posting a comment there?

It’s nearly impossible.

They must have an old leprechaun with a broom up his keister, holding a red marker and looking at every word with a jaundiced eye to make sure nobody gets butthurt, politically offended, or swoons while reading the insensitivities.

It’s totally different in the Washington Post.

They do a great job in allowing tasteful comments that breathe, are funny, insightful, blue-collar, and most of all, aren’t packed with long-winded, boring facts and stats that would drown a killer whale.

Exhibit A: New York Times Comments Section.

I know this comment will probably get me placed in the NYT’s Persona-Non-Grata Commentary List after they get butthurt and emotionally overwhelmed, exhausted.

Ohhhh, the humanities!