I’m sorry, but why are people writing encomiums to Betsy Rothstein?
Condolences to her friends and family about her passing, but … she produced neither good nor particularly memorable journalism, except to the extent she produced the occasional venomous, hurtful item.
Condolences to her friends and family about her passing, but … she produced neither good nor particularly memorable journalism, except to the extent she produced the occasional venomous, hurtful item.
Look, one must never speak I’ll of the dead. I know this. But I’m unaware of a requirement to blow sunshine — especially when it’s so glaringly undeserved. https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/539555321463967745
Or this gem of an item with her byline: https://twitter.com/asteadwesley/status/1083082924524744704
Or … 
Look: I come not to drag her, because I can’t remember the last time before tonight when I thought of her. But the people shouting her praises to the heavens, despite of her record of … er, racially charged journalism, are telling on themselves. https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty/status/688039451667394560

Look: I come not to drag her, because I can’t remember the last time before tonight when I thought of her. But the people shouting her praises to the heavens, despite of her record of … er, racially charged journalism, are telling on themselves. https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty/status/688039451667394560
(And I can think of one journalist in particular, in this case, who’s been telling on themselves for quite some time.) https://twitter.com/onlxn/status/916742533853540352