Big Media maven snaps

— In yet another article on blogging, Brendan Nyhan reports that a WaPo reporter is trying to get her critics fired: But after suffering through increasingly harsh criticism of her coverage of Clinton, Schmidt apparently snapped after receiving the emails, as MWO first reported (the story was then picked up by Jason Cherkis in the … Continue reading “Big Media maven snaps”

— In yet another article on blogging, Brendan Nyhan reports that a WaPo reporter is trying to get her critics fired:

But after suffering through increasingly harsh criticism of her coverage of Clinton, Schmidt apparently snapped after receiving the emails, as MWO first reported (the story was then picked up by Jason Cherkis in the Washington City Paper).
According to both Rentschler and the associate, she researched the domain names the emails were sent from and forwarded their emails to their employers.

You know you’re getting to them when they resort to this kind of behavior, which can be very effective with some employers.