They say man makes plans and God laughs. Everytime one of these super rich people die like that ..I wonder. Of course politically correct Libtard Washington Post would do something like this.
Kobe Bryant death: Washington Post reporter suspended after tweeting link to article on sex assault case
Washington Post political reporter Felicia Sonmez has been suspended from her job after a series of tweets in the aftermath of the helicopter crash that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others perished Sunday morning in Calabasas, California.
Tweeting Sunday afternoon, Sonmez posted a link to a Daily Beast article which explored a 2003 allegation of sexual assault against Bryant. The article, written in 2016, is headlined: “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.”
Social media users, some of them high profile, quickly went on the attack against Sonmez and the Post, saying that her posts were insensitive to the player’s death. The allegation she referred to, made by a hotel worker in Colorado, was never heard in criminal court but Bryant publicly apologized to his accuser and settled a civil complaint.
“Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did,” he said at the time.
Donald Trump Junior, a son of President Donald Trump who has frequently clashed with news reporters, was among those weighing in against Sonmez.
“You Washington Post reporters really can’t help yourselves, can you?” Trump tweeted. He linked to the tweet of the article from Sonmez, but very soon she had deleted it and others in which she had defended her actions. As the backlash came fast, Sonmez had initially posted to Twitter that she had received hate mail from “10,000 people” but said she was within her rights to have linked to the article.
“To the 10,000 people (literally) who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read the story — which was written 3+ years ago, and not by me. Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling.
“That folks are responding with rage and threats toward me (someone who didn’t even write the piece but found it well-reported) speaks volumes about the pressure people come under to stay silent in these cases.”
She later tweeted:
“If your response to a news article is to resort to harassment and intimidation of journalists, you might want to consider that your behavior says more about you than the person you’re targeting.”
Soon, though, all of her tweets on the topic would be removed. They had, however, been saved by many social media users.
In a statement to the Guardian and other outlets Monday, the Washington Post said that the tweets were in violation of the Post’s policies around social media, and Sonmez had been put on leave. Managing Editor Tracy Grant said:
“National political reporter Felicia Sonmez was placed on administrative leave while the Post reviews whether tweets about the death of Kobe Bryant violated the Post newsroom’s social media policy. The tweets displayed poor judgment that undermined the work of her colleagues.”
As well as the vitriol headed her way, Sonmez did have her defenders on social media, with some saying the Post had acted rashly in suspending her.
“Suspending a reporter for tweeting a relevant detail — a detail included in virtually ALL the obits I’ve read — is heavy handed and chilling,” tweeted reporter Barry Whyte. “I can’t speak to the Washington Post’s social media policies and I don’t know (Felicia Sonmez), but it’s hard to understand the decision.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...-tweeting-link-to-article-on-sex-assault-case
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