NY Times Hires, Quickly Fires Journalist With History of Homophobic Tweets

[pscot]

Less than 24 hours after she was hired, The New York Times on Tuesday fired editorial board member Quinn Norton, after a history of homophobic and racially insensitive tweets were uncovered.

Early on Tuesday, the paper announced in a statement that it had hired notable technology writer Quinn Norton as its editorial board’s “lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology.” (Norton contributed two tech-related pieces to The Daily Beast in 2014.)

Shortly thereafter, many of Norton’s controversial tweets began to resurface. Twitter users uncovered multiple instances in which she used the n-word, or gay slurs like “faggot” or “fag,” to refer to various users on the social-media platform.

Other critics pointed out her chummy exchanges with a user who’d tweeted numerous anti-Semitic statements, and highlighted old tweets in which she explained that she was proudly friends with neo-Nazi

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-hires-quickly-fires-quinn-norton-journalist-with-history-of-homophobic-tweets/?via=twitter_page

[joshcryer]

1. What a clusterfreak. You'd think they would've vetted her socials before hiring her.

Also, what a piece of work of a human being.

[pscot]

3. They're trying to "reach out to the heartland"

but it seems like it's causing an identity crisis

[bitterross]

2. Is the White House doing their vetting process now?

Sure sounds like it - she just needs to engage in spousal abuse and she's good to go!

[IluvPitties]

4. She is a waste of oxygen.

[irisblue]

5. Homophobic, racist& good friends with neo Nazis.

Yep the writer the old grey lady needs.

[mythology]

6. Not a great move to hire her, but at least they just as quickly fired her

[brush]

8. Now they need to fire the person who hired her.

[mcar]

7. Maybe they should have gotten a reporter

to check the person out. This is just embarrassing.

[brush]

9. Let that be a lesson to all the slur-spewing keyboard creeps out there.

You're gonna be looking for a job one day.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

10. She'll be fine, Pence will hire her.

[gratuitous]

11. Hey, take it easy on the New York Times

You think they have whole departments full of researchers and fact-checkers to track down stuff on the internet about writers they hire? As Luke said to Yoda, "You want the impossible!"