The New York Times Terminates Contract with Romance Columnist Olivia Waite After Bluesky Repost

Please be advised that the following article discusses rape allegations. … The New York Times has terminated their contract with author Olivia Waite, their romance columnist, after she reposted Mark Jacob’s repost of Marisa Kabas’ criticism of the Times’ coverage of new rape allegations about Trump. That is a sentence I didn’t think I’d type today. Or ever. To get the full picture, we need to start with the recent House Judiciary Democrats’ report that included new allegations of rape against Trump. No, really. Last week, independent journalist Marisa Kabas (The Handbasket) shared that she emailed Patrick Healy, the assistant managing editor for standards and trust at The New York Times, “to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word ‘rape.’” Kabas later shared Healy’s reply, which attracted substantial attention from the 440+ people who reposted it alongside the 2.3k people who liked it. Journalist Mark Jacob, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and author of the Stop the Presses newsletter about right-wing extremism in America, reposted...