{"id":1521992,"date":"2022-06-18T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1521992"},"modified":"2022-06-18T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:19:59","slug":"bill-maher-calls-modern-newsrooms-daycare-centers-after-wapos-bye-felicia-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-calls-modern-newsrooms-daycare-centers-after-wapos-bye-felicia-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Calls Modern Newsrooms \u2018Daycare Centers\u2019 After WaPo\u2019s \u2018Bye Felicia\u2019 Saga"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbill-maher-calls-modern-newsrooms-daycare-centers-after-wapos-bye-felicia-saga%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=1521992&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wapo-suspension-of-weigel-and-firing-of-sonmez-highlights-the-tawdry-manners-of-elite-media\">recent tumult<\/a> inside The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/washington-post\">Washington Post<\/a> over a retweeted joke shows modern woke newsrooms have become \u201cdaycare centers,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bill-maher\">Bill Maher<\/a> said Friday on his HBO show \u201cReal Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher, who keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/all-the-babies-are-in-the-wrong-bodies-bill-maher-questions-trans-explosion-in-epic-rant\">roasting fellow liberals<\/a> for their thin skins and quest to cancel those who disagree with them, recounted the controversy that rocked the newspaper earlier this month. Star reporter David Weigel retweeted a mildly sexist joke and fellow reporter Felicia Sonmez got offended and publicly called out the newspaper. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-fires-reporter-who-trashed-paper-colleague-over-retweeted-joke\">Weigel wound up suspended and Sonmez got fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, you think my generation is an eyeroll?\u201d Maher said, taking aim at Sonmez. \u201cLet me let you in on a little secret about the younger generations. No one wants to hire you. Your sense of entitlement is legendary and, with notable exceptions, your attention span and work ethic suck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing captures what\u2019s wrong with today\u2019s \u201cjournalism\u201d like the sad saga of what happened last week at The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WashingtonPost<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pqnPYNfT0g\">pic.twitter.com\/pqnPYNfT0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1538013603701280775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maher noted the joke Weigel retweeted, \u201cEvery girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it\u2019s polar or sexual,\u201d was relatively tame and said that Sonmez\u2019s reaction was over the top. She initially called out the newspaper for employing someone who would share such a joke, and then continued to complain about her colleagues when some defended Weigel, who had immediately apologized.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-reporter-suspended-without-pay-after-coworker-criticizes-him-for-retweeting-a-joke\">suspended Weigel<\/a> for a month without pay, but then fired Sonmez when she refused to stop publicly complaining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, the leadership at the Post folded like a Miami condo and suspended Weigel without pay for a month and denounce the offending retweet is a \u2018gross violation of their values.\u2019 \u2013 \u00a0free speech apparently not being one of them,\u201d Maher said. \u201cFor days, [Sonmez] raged with the fire of a thousand burning bras, sending a gazillion tweets calling for more to be done against Weigel, mocking her bosses, attacking colleagues, and letting the world know how much The Washington Post sucked. And this endless bickering and infighting continued online in public view until the bell rang and they all went to seventh period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher said the behavior of both Sonmez and the Post is emblematic of the modern-day newsroom, which he likened to an \u201cunlicensed daycare center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the Post\u2019s initial response was to punish not Felicia but one of their best reporters for a silly joke shows that the kindergarten is already in charge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The saga shows why millennials aren\u2019t ready to take over positions of power, Maher added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure many boomers would love to retire, but they can\u2019t,\u201d Maher ranted. \u201cThey\u2019re like the grandmother who would much rather be watching Judge Judy and has to raise her grandkids because her own kids are too f***ed up to manage it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher invoked the Post\u2019s storied past, including breaking the Watergate story nearly 50 years ago. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were focused on getting stories, not finding offense in their colleagues\u2019 behavior, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone named Deep Throat called the paper today and wanted to meet in a parking garage, this crew of emotional hemophiliacs would have an anxiety attack and report it to HR that they didn\u2019t feel safe,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a silver lining to this story, it\u2019s that eventually, the Post did fire Felicia Sonmez,\u201d he added. \u201cSo maybe there is a line that\u2019s just too much nonsense, but that generation needs to move that line much closer to sanity and find it much sooner because democracy dies in dumbness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent tumult inside The Washington Post over a retweeted joke shows modern woke newsrooms have become \u201cdaycare centers,\u201d Bill Maher said Friday on his HBO show \u201cReal Time.\u201d Maher, who keeps roasting fellow liberals for their thin skins and quest to cancel those who disagree with them, recounted the controversy that rocked the newspaper &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1522004,"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-1521992","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\/1521992","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}