Female Journalist Suspended After Tweeting Kobe Bryant Rape Article

I can't understand this. Every single news report I read mentioned it. NPR had an interview this morning with a female sports reporter who clearly admired him greatly and still raised the question and she talked about covering the trial.

I can see the timing was tasteless but she was posting in full context - man being held up as hero etc.

I too thought you meant she'd been suspended from Twitter. Suspended from her job - OMD.

Totally over the top reaction by the Washington Post. Bryant eventually settled out of court when a private prosecution was brought against him.

If she does lose her job I hope she sues for thousands.

On The World at One, they said he'd settled out of court re the rape allegations.

WTF?

So, the #metoo movement passed quickly, didn't it?

Women are getting hounded out of their jobs for saying things and posting things. Whether anyone agrees with what anybody else is saying or not, this is a terrible situation we are currently in.

Oh my god, I thought you meant suspended on Twitter! She's been put on administrative leave by the Washington Post

I'm seeing a scary slip towards a sort of 'online' totalitarianism - driven by social media sites like twitter. Things like this - and "Stop Funding Hate" wanting to stop journalists writing things they don't like - it's frightening.

"During the preliminary hearing, Det. Winters testified that the accuser had been examined the day after the alleged assault by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) at the Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

“[The nurse] stated that there were several lacerations to the victim’s posterior fourchette or vaginal area, and two of those lacerations were approximately one centimeter in length,” testified Det. Winters. “And there were many, I believe, 2 millimeter lacerations. Too many to count… [The nurse] stated that the injuries were consistent with penetrating genital trauma. That it’s not consistent with consensual sex.”"

www.thedailybeast.com/kobe-bryants-disturbing-rape-case-the-dna-evidence-the-accusers-story-and-the-half-confession

Oh dear. It is not a big secret - it was even discussed in serious, hushed tones on the World at One today.