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Questions linger after Jill Abramson’s dismissal from Times
Twitter and the blogosphere rang with accusations and denunciations to that effect on Wednesday and Thursday. “What happened to Jill Abramson shows everything that sucks about being a woman leader,” headlined the news “explainer” site Vox.com. The New Republic played out the sexual politics of l’affaire Abramson with a piece that carried the subhead, “Trying to explain a singularly humiliating firing.”
The theme bubbled briefly to the surface on Wednesday in the Times newsroom, too. Stunned reporters, who had gathered to learn news they didn’t see coming about Abramson, at one point asked publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. if Abramson was being treated differently than a man.
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