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What is happened?
14 December edition of Politico fired American journalist with Russian roots Julia Ioffe after speculation on Twitter that the US President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka are in intimate relationships.
Joffe tweet was a reaction to news that the President’s daughter get an office in the White house, which was intended for his wife trump and the new first lady of the United States, Melania Trump. He was later removed. Despite the fact that the news was refuted by the press-Secretary of the Trump in the same source, which was referred to the journalist, her tweet was also on the same note – in an affirmative way: “Ivanka Trump get an office in the White house office of the first lady.”
Recall, usually in the White house, the Cabinet is given only for the first lady, for the rest of the family members of the President this is not provided.
How the media argued the dismissal?
After lighting news about Julia Ioffe tweet, Politico commented edition of the Daily Caller: “This tweet was completely unacceptable and is a violation of the standards of POLITICO. Julia Ioffe is no longer working with us.”
In addition, the journalist of The Washington Post Eric Wemple published in his Twitter a letter from the leadership of Politico, which argued that Politico journalists on all platforms are always a self publishing and have to do it properly. “We understand how outrageous it is to prevent such incidents, which discredit POLITICO… the letter reads. – … We will not tolerate such behavior.”
Joffe was about to resign from Politico to go into The Atlantic, and now the first edition has accelerated the process of transition, firing a journalist for two hours after the publication of the tweet.
What was the reaction of journalism?
After deleting the tweet Julia Ioffe wrote microblog “Our elected President popularized the tactic of “say what I think”, but I guess my wording should have been more sensitive.”
She later apologized in several tweets: “I’m sorry about my wording… It was a stupid joke, which I sincerely regret. It was tasteless, offensive tweet that I deleted and regret. I really and deeply sorry. It won’t happen again”.
Views
Kirsten powers, columnist for USA Today, defended Yulia in his microblog: “People should be left alone Julia Ioffe. She apologized, but of course, Twitter wants to have her burned at the stake. She’s a great journalist. Point.”
Ben Shapiro, a columnist of the Daily Wire, the lead of his show, expressed in his Twitter “I thought Julia Ioffe tweet was ridiculous. But then I thought that to fire someone because of this even more ridiculous.”
Lecturer at the faculty of communications, media and design HSE Yegor Isayev in exclusive comments to Hit.Media said: “the Blog is a private space, nobody has the right to influence the journalist (or any person) [is] how and what to speak.”
What Julia Ioffe is known for?
Joffe – American journalist, born in Moscow. At various times it was published in such periodicals as The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Forbes.
At the end of April in the US broke out the anti-Semitic scandal due to write her profile for Melania Trump for GQ magazine. Then the supporters of Donald Trump was insulted the journalist and threatened her, often pointing out her Jewish origins.
In November, Joffe entered the Forward 50 list most influential Jews in 2016. The first place it took Ivanka Trump.
By author Daria Vorobeva