A Newsweek editor was reportedly demoted after a reporter for the magazine was fired for an inaccurate report on President Trump’s Thanksgiving plans.
Sorry bitches, the fired reporter is still likely to sue for wrongful dismissal.
Dunno why she got fired… Clearly, the article was written before his secret trip was revealed, based off of what was known beforehand.
Guess clairvoyancy in reporting is now a requirement…
We will continue to review our processes and, if required, take further action.”
…up to but not including our infallible selves.
She was fired because individual orange and one of beavis or butthead bitched about the original article.
Yep. And demoting the editor involved probably helps her case, too. Its essentially an admittance that she was right.
Her claim, as much as I can tell, is that she wrote the article on Wed, then called the editor on Thursday before it was released to update him on the sudden change in Trump’s plans, and the editor basically published the Wed article anyway.
They’re both kicking themselves they didn’t publish a completely un-sourced, made-up story about a Clinton…would have gotten promoted instead. Probably be running the whole newsroom by Wednesday.
Fire those one and two levels above the demoted editor and rehire the reporter. And fire the editor too, of course.
That would be only fair.
This may not turn out well at all for Newsweek’s higher-ups…
Yup, she did exactly as anyone else would in that situation. It’s not her (or Newsweeks) fault that the Trump administration does a piss poor job of keeping relevant news agencies informed.
Well, something like this she would likely not have been in the loop on. They keep the movement closehold, only the reporters on the flight and maybe their bosses would have been in the loop before the embargo on reporting it was lifted. So some random columnist, nope.
For doing exactly what she should have: fired.
For doing exactly what he should not have: temporary change in title.
Newsweaklings. Chumps. Stand up or get the fuck out of the way.
You’ve been watching too many British TV shows. In this country, unless you’ve got an employment contract that says otherwise, you can be fired from any job, at any time, for any reason, or even no reason at all. Almost all people are “at will” employees.
Aren’t journalists usually part of a union?
Also, just being an at-will employee doesn’t prevent you from sueing and winning. Say your boss demands you loan him money: you refuse, and get fired. Or, say your boss screws up and gets called out by the president. Your boss fires you to appease the preznit and save his own job. Those are winnable cases.
Don’t know about the state of unionization in the news biz, but I have two relatives in that line of work, and neither one has ever been part of any union, at any publication they worked at.
I don’t think any one of those is a winnable case under U.S. law. You can be fired because the boss doesn’t like your shirt. If he fires you because you’re black, or a woman, or “too old,” you’ve got a case. If he fires you because you refuse to help him cook the books to commit tax fraud, you’ve got a case.
Yes, and that’s where newsweek screwed up, assuming they had reasons to terminate her beyond appeasing the toddler in chief. They could have constructed some unquantifiable performance and attitude rationale and quietly terminated her 3 months later. That’s not a winnable case.
Anyways, if the reporter wants to pursue this she would be wise to go with an attorney on contingency, settle, and move on with her life. If no attorney will take it she has her answer. She might also choose not to pursue it due to the risk of blacklisting. But… her name is out there and the damage to her career may be substantial (funny how we don’t know the name of the demoted editor).
BTW, at least half the verbiage in a contract is there for intimidation. Just because you signed that contract of adhesion doesn’t make all of it enforceable.
So many persons have no concept of “at will” employment, backed by case law.
“The statement added that the article “did not meet the standards” set by Newsweek editor in chief Nancy Cooper.”
Standards? Standards of what? Standards of pro-Trump sycophancy?
Then the Trump administration complaining about it is disingenuous. Newsweek shouldn’t be firing or demoting anyone based on bad faith criticism.