{"id":1277665,"date":"2022-02-07T02:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277665"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:22:36","slug":"washington-post-blasted-for-shameful-op-ed-using-colleagues-death-to-urge-censoring-joe-rogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-blasted-for-shameful-op-ed-using-colleagues-death-to-urge-censoring-joe-rogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Blasted For \u2018Shameful\u2019 Op-Ed Using Colleague\u2019s Death To Urge Censoring Joe Rogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-blasted-for-shameful-op-ed-using-colleagues-death-to-urge-censoring-joe-rogan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MS1-scaled-1-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-ip02xz\">\n<p>Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan was slammed on Sunday for using the death of a former colleague of hers to call for censoring Joe Rogan on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/02\/06\/joe-rogan-spotify-covid-death\/\">claimed<\/a> that Rogan\u2019s statement last week about interviewing individuals that have questioned mainstream narratives about the pandemic \u201cmade her furious\u201d because she was \u201cspending a lot of time this week thinking about Miguel Rodriguez [later referred to as \u2018Miggy\u2019], a former colleague of mine, who died of covid last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan later added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>He was overweight and asthmatic; in other words, very much at risk. And he was unvaccinated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t know for sure whether getting vaccination and booster shots would have saved Miggy\u2019s life. And I have no idea whether he had ever listened to Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, or what his precise reasons were for not being vaccinated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sullivan said that Spotify needed to effectively recognize that it is a \u201cpublisher\u201d so that it could \u201cmake decisions about what\u2019s appropriate\u201d to publish. Sullivan claimed without evidence that many of the 900,000 American deaths from COVID-19 could have been \u201cprevented if it weren\u2019t for the rampant misinformation that has discouraged so many from getting vaccines and taking other steps to protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan was widely condemned online for seemingly using her former colleague\u2019s death to push for censoring Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>Notable responses included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Nolte<\/strong>, Breitbart: \u201cMargaret Sullivan is a typical condescending racist who doesn\u2019t believe black people have minds of their own and are easily manipulated.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bethany Mandel<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cThere were no editors on duty?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dana Loesch<\/strong>, radio host: \u201cBlaming your friend\u2019s death on a podcast you admit he may not have listened to doesn\u2019t sound like grief, it sounds like convenient exploitation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liz Wolfe<\/strong>, Reason: \u201cIt\u2019s obviously incredibly disrespectful of Sullivan to trot out a colleague\u2019s death like this, but that grossness aside\u2026at what point do we say: People have made their choices. They\u2019re not mindlessly manipulated by Rogan, they have access to ALL kinds of information out there.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shant Mesrobian<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cUsing the death of a colleague to write a completely unrelated and cynical hit piece on a media figure you don\u2019t like is a pretty good way to understand how rotten the souls are of the people who work in failing legacy media.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luke Thompson<\/strong>, political strategist: \u201cA self-respecting profession would shun fellow journalists who attack the culture of tolerance necessary to sustain the First Amendment. Journalism is not such a profession.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Krakauer<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cWhat a morally bankrupt column\u2026 co-opting the death of a \u2018beloved\u2019 colleague to spread pro-censorship misinformation \u2013 because if he HAD listened to Joe Rogan, he\u2019s have been urged to get vaccinated, as Rogan has said many times for someone who is \u2018overweight and asthmatic.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Javier E. David<\/strong>, Yahoo News: \u201cImagine thinking this was a good way to honor a colleague. Shameful.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Gabriel<\/strong>, Ricochet: \u201cMy friend died of cancer. I don\u2019t know if he ever read Margaret Sullivan but\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Gainor<\/strong>, NewsBusters: \u201cIt\u2019s shocking that a major news outlet ran this piece of crap. Losing people we love makes us want to lash out sometimes. But this is inexcusably bad.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan was slammed on Sunday for using the death of a former colleague of hers to call for censoring Joe Rogan on Spotify.Sullivan claimed that Rogan\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}