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The Washington Post has fired Felicia Sonmez, who triggered a vigorous online debate this week over social
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stanley cup The incident began when Sonmez tweeted a screen shot of an offensive joke that a colleague, Dave Weigel, had sent out on Twitter, adding the comment: Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed. The Post suspended Weigel for a month for his retweet, according to published reports.That prompted another reporter, Jose Del Real, to criticize Sonmez online. While saying Weigel had been wrong, Del Real called for compassion. Rallying the Internet to attack him for a mistake he made doesn t actually solve anything, he wrote. That led to a contentious back-and-forth, with Sonmez accusing Del Real of attacking her.As an online debate widened and drew in more people, Post executive editor Sally Buzbee sent out two memos calling on staff members to show respec Peqv Hawaii s fire-spitting lava spectacle
CHICAGO -- Organizers of Chicagorsquo weekend protests expected 20,000 marchers to show up. Actually, 250,000 came, so many that police had to cancel a planned march because the streets were too clogged.And yet in the cold gray light of this Monday morning, one question lingers about what took place: The demonstration is over, so what now Itrsquo time to get active in your community, on every level, said Ann Scholhamer, who along with Liz Radford and Jessica Scheller co-chaired the Chicago gathering. Liz Radford, left, Jessica Scheller, center and Ann Scholhamer, right
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