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The Washington Post was plagued with controversies that dominated the conversation on Twitter, but MSNBC made no mention of the viral drama that even liberal journalists were tweeting about.
In the past two weeks, The Post was hit with bad press, from being forced to issue an editor’s note on its infamous 2018 op-ed from Amber Heard that was found by a jury to be defamatory towards Johnny Depp, to the erroneous reporting from Taylor Lorenz that led to the paper being caught stealth editing and issuing multiple corrections, to the open warfare Post colleagues were launching against each other on social media, which led to the firing of Felicia Sonmez.
But despite how often MSNBC hails the reporting of the Washington Post, the Peacock network kept its viewers in the dark on the chaos that has erupted at the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper, according to Grabien transcripts.
THE WASHINGTON POST’S WEEK FROM HELL
The Washington Post issued a lengthy editor’s note the 2018 Amber Heard op-ed at the center of Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife.
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Perhaps it’s a sore subject for many on MSNBC’s payroll as several Washington Post employees appear on-air as analysts and contributors, like Post deputy national editor Philip Rucker, White House bureau chief Ashley Parker, associate editor Jonathan Capehart and columnist Jennifer Rubin.
MSNBC did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Like MSNBC, CNN largely avoided on-air coverage of the Washington Post drama except for a brief segment on “Reliable Sources.”
WAPO’S FELICIA SONMEZ TORCHES ‘WHITE’ COLLEAGUES FOR ‘DOWNPLAYING’ WORKPLACE DRAMA WITH ‘SYNCHRONIZED TWEETS’
The Post’s week from Hell began at the conclusion of the explosive Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial where a jury found that Heard’s piece published in the paper in 2018, at the center of Depp’s defamation suit against…
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