AP Journalist fired over ‘biased’ pro-Palestinian tweets

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News ID: 51887
Publish Date: 20:58 - 22 May 2021
Saturday, 22 May 2021 (YJC) _ An Associated Press reporter has been fired over pro-Palestinian tweets she posted.

AP Journalist fired over ‘biased’ pro-Palestinian tweetsAn Associated Press reporter has been fired over pro-Palestinian tweets she posted while in college – and now she insists she’s a victim of “cancel culture.”

Emily Wilder, a former Arizona Republic intern, started as an AP news associate in Phoenix on May 3, but learned just 16 days later that her time at the 174-year-old news agency would abruptly end due to the “clear bias” it says she showed in her social media posts, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

“It’s really devastating,” Wilder told the newspaper of her termination, adding that she wasn’t informed exactly which posts led to her dismissal.

An AP spokesperson told the newspaper Wilder was fired for violating its media policy “during her time at AP” – an apparent reference to posts in which she veered from its apolitical stance for reporters as recently as Sunday.

“‘Objectivity’ feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim,” Wilder posted. “Using ‘israel’ but never ‘palestine,’ or ‘war’ but not ‘siege and occupation’ are political choices – yet media make those exact choices all the time without being flagged as biased.”

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