Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz chastised Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias for joking about his COVID-19 diagnosis from a place of privilege.
'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz reacts to the firing of Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez following days of Twitter attacks on the paper and colleagues.Liberal commentator and Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias appeared to use humor to soften the blow of his COVID-19 diagnosis which appeared to upset Washington Post tech reporter "Some personal news: I have contracted the novel coronavirus," Yglesias declared in a Father's Day tweet.
More recently, Lorenz faced criticism when her piece about the content creators who benefited from the explosive Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. In her original report, Lorenz noted how two YouTubers allegedly profited from their coverage of the trial and didn't respond for comment. However, the YouTubers called out Lorenz, saying that she had never reached out to them before the story was published.
Washington Post recently got embroiled in a self-inflicted s---storm when one of their best reporters David Weigel retweeted, not tweeted, retweeted this joke: 'Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.'"After detailing the sordid details of the controversy, he closed it by skewering The Post with a parody of its own"Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline.
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