WASHINGTON: The Washington Post came under fire Monday for its decision to suspend a reporter a day after she tweeted about the rape case against Kobe Bryant, only hours after the former basketball star and his daughter died with seven others in a helicopter crash. On Sunday afternoon, as the world was learning the news and initial details of Bryant’s death, the Post’s Felicia Sonmez tweeted a link to a Daily Beast story titled, “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession”. Shortly afterwards, she tweeted that she had received “abuse and death threats” from “10,000 people, literally”. Post media critic Erik Wemple called the suspension “misguided”. New York magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi tweeted, “News organisations should protect their journalists, not acquiesce to the mob when it comes for them.

Source: Pakistan Today January 28, 2020 13:07 UTC