The Washington Post terminated its reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday after she waged war against the paper and her colleagues with tweetstorms for nearly an …
The terminated its reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday after she waged war against the paper and her colleagues with tweetstorms for nearly an entire week. Fox News confirmed that Sonmez is no longer with the paper. A spokesperson for the Post declined to comment. Sonmez did not immediately respond to Fox News‘ request for comment. Earlier in the day, Sonmez took a flamethrower to fellow staffers in another lengthy series of tweets, attacking those who had posted recent, strikingly similar messages of support for their paper.
„I don’t know who the colleagues anonymously disparaging me in media reports are. But I do know that the reporters who issued synchronized tweets this week downplaying the Post’s workplace issues have a few things in common with each other“, Sonmez wrote during a lengthy Twitter thread.
„They are all white – They are among the highest-paid employees in the newsroom, making double and even triple what some other National desk reporters are making, particularly journalists of color – They are among the ‘stars’ who ‘get away with murder’ on social media“, Sonmez tweeted. „Of course the is a great workplace. It is a great workplace *for them.* The system is working *for them.* What about for everyone else? The General Assignment team? The Morning Mix team? The newsletter researchers?“
Sonmez insisted there have been „long-standing issues“ within the Post that have not been addressed and that will only continue, even if the media will move on from „trivializing“ them as a „Twitter spat.
