‘That Is Hilarious’: WaPo Sparks Criticism After Initially Labeling Reporters ‘Conservative’
The Washington Post is receiving criticism after initially calling reporters “conservative” for their reporting on the “Twitter Files.” Writer Walter Kirn shared a screenshot of an article published by the Post about…
The Washington Post is receiving criticism after initially calling reporters “conservative” for their reporting on the “Twitter Files.”
Writer Walter Kirn shared a screenshot of an article published by the Post about independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.
“As head of trust and safety at Twitter, Roth was involved in many of the platform’s decisions about what posts to remove and what accounts to suspend. His communications with other Twitter officials have been posted in recent days as part of what Musk calls the Twitter Files, a series of tweets by conservative journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss,” the Post reported on Monday.
Twitter users quickly took issue with the label.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted, “The editorial policy of The Washington Post and many Brooklyn-based liberal digital sites is to falsely label people as ‘right-wing’ as some weird punishment for deviating from liberal orthodoxy. All this term really means is: ‘one who sometimes rejects Dem Party orthodoxy.'”
The Chicks on the Right Twitter account argued, “OF COURSE the is framing the narrative incorrectly. OF COURSE they are. It wouldn’t be WaPo if they didn’t.”
One tweet stated, “LIES LIES AND MORE LIES, , and are classic liberals! I guess that doesn’t fit the narrative .”
https://twitter.com/BentizK/status/1602652470529908737
Read more tweets below:
https://twitter.com/pegobry/status/1602616654864973824