Cenk Uygur
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Washington Post Reporter FIRED For Publicly Provoking Infighting With Colleagues
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10:27Now PlayingWashington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez has been fired from the publication after she provoked internal conflict in the newsroom after publicly blasting her colleague David Weigel on Twitter for retweeting a sexist joke despite him apologizing and immediately removing the retweet from his account. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and David Shuster discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"After seven days of Twitter drama, the Washington Post fired reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday.
Last Friday, Sonmez publicly put colleague Dave Weigel on blast for having retweeted a distasteful joke that said, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”
Sonmez flagged the retweet in a tweet of her own that read, “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”
Weigel un-shared the tweet and apologized within 90 minutes. On Monday, the publication suspended him for a month without pay. Even after the apology and suspension, Sonmez kept tweeting negatively about the Post and colleagues of hers who questioned her approach of publicly airing her grievances.
On Thursday, the company fired Sonmez via email. In the email, obtained by the New York Times, Post Human Resources Officer Wayne Connell explained that Sonmez was being terminated “for misconduct that includes insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.”"
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