{"id":537526,"date":"2021-05-23T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537526"},"modified":"2021-05-23T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:20:50","slug":"ap-claps-back-at-fired-anti-israel-reporter-who-claims-she-was-cancel-culture-victim-journalists-cannot-take-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-claps-back-at-fired-anti-israel-reporter-who-claims-she-was-cancel-culture-victim-journalists-cannot-take-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Claps Back At Fired Anti-Israel Reporter Who Claims She Was \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 Victim: Journalists \u2018Cannot Take Sides\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fap-claps-back-at-fired-anti-israel-reporter-who-claims-she-was-cancel-culture-victim-journalists-cannot-take-sides%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=537526&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\/2021\/05\/AP-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Associated Press clapped back at an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-associated-press-cans-anti-israel-activist-following-backlash\">anti-Israel activist<\/a>\u201d reporter that it fired last week, saying that reporters could not openly take sides on issues, which would take away from the outlet\u2019s ability to report based on \u201cfairness and credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP fired Emily Wilder last week after old social media posts from the activist went viral. In those posts, she made controversial remarks about a prominent Jew and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-associated-press-cans-anti-israel-activist-following-backlash\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>A spokeswoman for the AP told the&nbsp;Washington Free Beacon&nbsp;that it \u201crequires employees to abstain from political activity.\u201d Three days before her termination, Wilder said that \u201cobjectivity\u201d felt \u201cfickle\u201d with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2018Objectivity\u2019 feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim,\u201d Wilder&nbsp;tweeted. \u201cUsing \u2018israel\u2019 but never \u2018palestine,\u2019 or \u2018war\u2019 but not \u2018seige and occupation\u2019 are political choices \u2014 yet media make those exact choices all the time without being flagged as bias.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On May 19, Wilder was fired for violating the company\u2019s media policy \u201cduring her time at AP.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilder responded by portraying herself as a victim of \u201ca smear campaign\u201d \u2013 which relied on using statements that she made \u2013 and bemoaning \u201cpowerful conservatives\u201d that called her out online.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder wrote in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><em>When I asked my managers which exact tweets were in violation of policy or how, they refused to tell me. In the end, rather than take whatever misstep I made as a teaching opportunity \u2013 as is the point of the news associate program \u2013 it appears they took it as an opportunity to make me a scapegoat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is heartbreaking as a young journalist so hungry to learn from the fearless investigative reporting of AP journalists \u2013 and do that reporting myself. It\u2019s terrifying as a young woman who was hung out to dry when I needed support from my institution most. And it\u2019s enraging as a Jewish person \u2013 who grew up in a Jewish community, attended Orthodox schooling and devoted my college years to studying Palestine and Israel \u2013 that I could be defamed as anti-Semitic and thrown under the bus in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am one victim to the asymmetrical enforcement of rules around objectivity and social media that has censored so many journalists \u2013 particularly Palestinian journalists and other journalists of color \u2013 before me. The compassion that drove my activism is part of what led me to be a reporter committed to just, critical, fact-based coverage of under-told stories. Now, after being fired after less than three weeks at my job, I have to ask what kind of message this sends to young people who are hoping to channel righteous indignation or passion for justice into impactful storytelling. What future does it promise to aspiring reporters that an institution like The Associated Press would sacrifice those with the least power to the cruel trolling of a group of anonymous bullies? What does it mean for this industry that even sharing the painful experiences of Palestinians or interrogating the language we use to describe them can be seen as irredeemably \u201cbiased?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilder concluded by claiming that she would not be \u201cintimidated into silence\u201d and that she would be back soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press responded to Wilder\u2019s statement with their own statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Though The Associated Press generally refrains from commenting on personnel matters, we can confirm Emily Wilder\u2019s comments on Thursday that she was dismissed for violations of AP\u2019s social media policy during her time at AP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have this policy so the comments of one person cannot create dangerous conditions for our journalists covering the story. Every AP journalist is responsible for safeguarding our ability to report on this conflict, or any other, with fairness and credibility, and cannot take sides in public forums.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press clapped back at an \u201canti-Israel activist\u201d reporter that it fired last week, saying that reporters could not openly take sides on issues, which would take away from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312721,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AP-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"AP Claps Back At Fired Anti-Israel Reporter Who Claims She Was \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 Victim: Journalists \u2018Cannot Take Sides\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AP-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"AP Claps Back At Fired Anti-Israel Reporter Who Claims She Was \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 Victim: Journalists \u2018Cannot Take Sides\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537526","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=537526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}