{"id":1549094,"date":"2022-07-11T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549094"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:50:20","slug":"wapo-wars-the-patriarchy-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-wars-the-patriarchy-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Wars: The Patriarchy Strikes Back"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fwapo-wars-the-patriarchy-strikes-back%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=1549094&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">White men resurgent after Felicia Sonmez fiasco, women snubbed<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 July 11, 2022 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s justified firing of obnoxious feminist reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/chesa-boudin-felicia-sonmez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Sonmez<\/a>\u00a0has been quite the boon for generic male journalists.\u00a0Last week the paper tapped generic white man David Shipley to take over as editor of the <em>Post<\/em> editorial page, and welcomed back Dave Weigel, the white male reporter who was suspended last month for retweeting a joke that offended Sonmez. The patriarchy is thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley&#8217;s hiring was widely viewed as a victory for misogynists.\u00a0His predecessor, generic white man Fred Hiatt, died of heart failure in December 2021. Female journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/ruth-marcus-must-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruth Marcus<\/a> and Karen Tumulty had been running the editorial page on an interim basis. The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s white male publisher, Fred Ryan, was naturally reluctant to promote a woman. They did not, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/pr\/2022\/07\/07\/david-shipley-named-editorial-page-editor-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> in a press release announcing the decision, possess Shipley&#8217;s &#8220;intellectual curiosity, thoughtful independence, journalistic integrity, and even-handed judgment,&#8221; among other traits commonly associated with the male gender.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement announcing the hiring, Ryan claimed (without evidence) to have settled on Shipley after an &#8220;exhaustive&#8221; and &#8220;inclusive&#8221; search process that involved men and women &#8220;of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews.&#8221; Alas, the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s blatant snubbing of two relatively qualified female journalists was reminiscent of CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/cnn-toobin-racist-masturbator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist refusal<\/a> to promote\u00a0a person of color to replace Zoom masturbator <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/jeffrey-toobin-rises-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Toobin<\/a> as the network&#8217;s chief legal analyst. Toobin, who once tried to bribe his mistress to get an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/toobin-supreme-court-abortion-mistress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>, has appeared on CNN multiple times to discuss the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision overturning <em>Roe <\/em>v<em>. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s open embrace of misogyny is ironic given that Sonmez initiated her job-ending tirade in response to Weigel&#8217;s retweet of a joke some described as &#8220;sexist.&#8221; The male journalist was suspended for a month without pay after Sonmez, a woman, complained. Nevertheless, she persisted in attacking her colleagues on social media until the <em>Post<\/em> was compelled to fire her for cause. Now that she&#8217;s gone, white men are finally getting a chance to run things.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The <\/em>Washington Free Beacon<em> is proud to be a woman-led organization.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media White men resurgent after Felicia Sonmez fiasco, women snubbed  Andrew Stiles \u2022 July 11, 2022 4:40 pm The Washington Post\u2018s justified firing of obnoxious feminist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-1549094","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\/1549094","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549094\/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=1549094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}