Stuff Went Down
Apparently WKRN blogger Brittney Gilbert has resigned/otherwise lost her job over some random “racial issue” that will be unremembered a week or so from now. It’s a shame on one hand, but I have to say that Brittney had a way of dealing it just as harshly as she ended up taking it. She was just as vicious as an attacker as those who went after her, and those things have a way of coming full circle.
Interestingly, she was defended in this way over at TinyCatPants:
So, let me tell you a little bit about life on the ground here in Tennessee. Here, we liberal bloggers are outnumbered by conservative bloggers by about six to one, I’d guess. Here, there are maybe a dozen feminist bloggers throughout the whole state and a handful, at best, bloggers who blog for immigrant rights.
NiT is the one platform we have to reach a larger readership, to try to influence policy.
If we lose Brittney, we lose the one prominent liberal feminist voice in the state being paid by a news outlet. We lose our gathering place, we lose our rallying place.
Unfortunately for Brittney this has little to do with her as a person and everything to do with her as a figure head. So if I can remove any personal feelings here on both sides I would have to say that this is, in the long term, a good move by WKRN. If a news outlet is being outright used as a platform for liberals to influence policy I have little in terms of sympathy for that kind of situation.
Again, no offense to Brittney — she did her job well. A little too well in this instance. I frankly think the whole issue really is nonsense. But at the end of the day they didn’t rip her brain out and make her turn in her home keys. She still has a blog and I’m sure we’ll hear plenty from her as the days go on.
The shame here is that she lost her job for nothing. The upside is that she can now use her personal blog to be as wide open and transparent on issues as she wishes with no fears over job security, and we can go back to hoping, in the face of mounds of evidence to the contrary, that the media is impartial.
Good luck, Brittney.
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