Instead of ‘Quit Digging,’ Advice for the Washington Post Should Be ‘Stop Pouring Gas on Your Tire Fire’ – Opinion

You might think that after such an embarrassing experience for Washington Post, adults would be more willing to take legal action.

This Saturday A variety of highly problematic issues were highlighted by me at the esteemed publication out of the nation’s capital. The Washington Post managed to extend not only the number of issues but also to add to it in the two days that followed.

It’s hard to know where to begin. How about a new fiasco instead? Late on Friday, there was a piece produced by writer Lori Rosza that was about Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis. It all concerned what DeSantis might be scorched. It was a piece of pure genius., Rosza’s article, though couched as a missive on transgender health support, was little more than a laundry list of gripes concerning the governor. 

In an increasingly common move, an editor had to step in. The Post has had a popular Byline of late: Correction.This article needed to fix two major details, one of which was the main topic.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the size of Florida’s budget is $101.5 billion. The actual figure is $109.9 trillion. It incorrectly said that Governor. DeSantis had been considering banning transgender individuals from all Medicaid services. The proposal would prohibit gender affirming procedures being covered by state Medicaid. It has now been updated.

They weren’t the only problem. Christina Pushaw (Desantis’ press secretary) is a bully of a woman and has a long list of problems. The funding vetoSpecial Olympics Tampa Baseball Team vaccine passport issueAnd the claim he had not commentedPushaw called all the shots in Texas.

However, the paper addressed only a couple of items to be corrected and was only sent after Pushaw provided the details.

UPDATE #2: Washington Post added an update to correct two lies in its original story.

Unfortunately, two additional factual errors were not rectified. You can see the screenshots from my email addressed to the reporter pic.twitter.com/Nqt1ijlRdw

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

However, this is just the beginning. Two ongoing melodramatics continue to show that the paper still drapes itself in infantilism. 

The latest Taylor Lorenz sagging saga continued. The editors stoleth edited the article after the writer was caught falsifying information. When confronted, the writer was called out for falsifying details in her piece. The editors then stolethily edited it. A second, longer correction was later made. Some of these issues may still be incorrect today.

The episode was so unbalanced, that Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter had to comment on it. Lorenz claimed in a laughable way that Lorenz did not make the error, and that it was the result of bad-faith conservatives.

Lorenz, in a series tweets, blames her editor who inserted the error in her story. She also claims she was the victim of “bad faith” campaigns. pic.twitter.com/VmH7mejgXP

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 4, 2022

Her editors and conservatives must be to blame. Lorenz then attacked Darcy and Stelter stepped in to defend him. Taylor was able to lock down her account by the end, despite blaming others for her errors.

What @oliverdarcyStandard reporting is what he is doing. He asked legitimate questions of the Post, and they responded. Journalists can scrutinize each other, but not as much as crusaders.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 4, 2022

This was just the beginning. It was not just that the infantile developments around writer Dave Weigel were ongoing; they also spread the idiocy. This all started because Dave had the nerve to repostweet jokes posted by others. That led to writer Felicia Sonmez complaining to management – but on Twitter – and then she spent the weekend declaring herself to be under attack.

Jose Del Real (a Post writer) attempted to intervene and restore calm. Sonmez blasted on Twitter, claiming that Sonmez had been victim to attacks, in spite of his calm call for peace. This provoked more victims to come forward, resulting in even more accusations of being victim.

Women who stand up for their rights are often met with even more hate.

Last night, a Post colleague publicly attacked me for calling out another colleague’s sexist tweet. In the beginning, he hid all objections to his attack and then appears to have deleted his entire account. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/e7ksvS9hFc

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) June 5, 2022

Sarah Buzbee, the executive editor, was finally forced to send an email pleading with all employees to act and behave like adults.

Sally Buzbee, the Executive Editor at WaPo, sends out a memo to all journalists warning them that they must treat one another with kindness and respect in light of recent social media scandals. pic.twitter.com/nRd5h0kLLD

— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) June 5, 2022

Felicia continued with her tirade and Felicia’s plea failed to reach the right people. Del Real was forced to pull back at that point, locking his account. Sonmez then became impatient after she realized he had blocked him, following her absurd accusations. The next morning, more staffers joined inThe latest developments in the Weigel hectoring have been revealed.

As of this afternoon, Dave Weigel has been suspended without pay, for the crime of retweeting someone’s off-color joke, and rather rapidly deleting it and apologizing. 

>> @oliverdarcyThe Washington Post suspends reporter @daveweigelYou don’t have to pay anything for sharing a joke about sex. https://t.co/TAkq8O6SjE

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 6, 2022

We now have Taylor Lorenz resorting at fabulism repeatedly being discussed by the Washington Post. There is also another writer infringing company protocols, voicing internal grievances publicly, as well as a series of articles that have serious journalistic issues. But the publisher and editor did nothing to take legal action except for someone who retweeted an absurd joke.

Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee must be thankful to have been freed from this boat of fools.