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How Caitlin Dewey can be employed as a reporter is astonishing. The Washington Post has no moral or journalistic standards at all, but it’s still hard to believe they published Dewey’s factually challenged, dishonest and completely one-sided smear on #GamerGate:

This horrifying and newly trendy
online-harassment tactic is ruining careers
There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds.
As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy and more methodical approach — you might even say the “hottest new trend” in harassment is opposition research.
The latest high-profile victim is Alison Rapp, formerly a spokesperson for Nintendo of America. Rapp has been in the crosshairs of an online mob since fall, when Nintendo changed several female characters in American versions of its games to make them less sexual. . . .
In between deconstructing her Amazon wishlist, surfacing anonymous social accounts and circulating copies of her undergraduate thesis, the self-styled investigators also found evidence that Rapp was working a mysterious second job — for which she was fired from Ninetendo on March 30. . . .

IT’S NOT “HARASSMENT”! THE “SELF-STYLED INVESTIGATORS” ARE DOING WHAT USED TO BE CALLED “REPORTING,” YOU IDIOT! HOW ABOUT YOU TRY DOING SOME REPORTING INSTEAD OF SMEARING HONEST PEOPLE TO ADVANCE YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA?

Who “ruined” Alison Rapp’s career, Ms. Dewey? Alison Rapp, that’s who.

You have published zero evidence that being “in the crosshairs of an online mob” was the reason for Rapp’s firing, Ms. Dewey, nor have you apparently undertaken any effort to determine (a) whether Rapp was peddling her ass on the Internet, (b) whether this alleged ass-peddling was the cause of her firing, and certainly not (c) whether it was the “online mob” that reported this alleged ass-peddling to Ninendo. What you have done, instead of actually reporting the story, is to repeat the tendentious claims of the SJW crowd, contending that #GamerGate is about nothing except “harassment,” “misogyny” and general all-around Wrongthink.

You are lazy, Ms. Dewey, and it is a great mystery how you have managed to convince the editors of the Washington Post that you are worth whatever they’re paying you. By my count, you’ve had nine bylines in the past three weeks, and if your absurd thinly-sourced “reporting” about the Alison Rapp scandal is typical of your work, I can’t imagine what you’re doing with all your spare time. Meanwhile, Cynthia Than at Inc. magazine shows what real reporting looks like:

Alison Rapp, a product marketing specialist at Nintendo, has been fired after protests from gamers, parents, and anti-child-abuse activists drew attention to a paper she wrote in college. The essay, which can be found on her LinkedIn profile, is titled, “Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws” and argues for the legalization of child pornography.
Jamie Walton, president of the Wayne Foundation, a non-profit organization that fights sex trafficking, contacted Nintendo to complain about Rapp. She was then terminated, which created even more controversy, with people jumping in to argue that her dismissal was sexist (“She was fired for doing literally nothing other than being a woman”) to completely justified (“Nintendo was absolutely right to fire pedophile advocate, Alison Rapp”). . . .
Nintendo’s public statement says that Rapp wasn’t fired for moonlighting, but because her second job was “in conflict with [their] culture” — a reference made to online allegations made about Rapp by male critics. . . .
I contacted Rapp multiple times to give her an opportunity to confirm or deny these allegations, or provide context for her essay. She refused to answer any of my questions, and then promptly blocked me on Twitter and Facebook.

Thank you, Ms. Than, for asking the obvious questions.

UPDATE: Damn, this kind of shoddy stuff from the Washington Post makes me angry. You know, Ethan Ralph isn’t a professional journalist, but he has been running rings around some professional journalists on this Rapp story and why? Because he cares about facts.

Alison Rapp is a “victim” of nothing but her own stupidity.

 


52 comments

  2. When all you have as an identity is being a victim everyone else is an oppressive bully.

    Second verse same as the first.

  4. Also, not talking to people to try and set the record straight?

    That shows she just doesn’t care. If it was “Please route all contact through the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe of Cambridge, MA,” there’s at least something being said, rather than avoid and deny. The tricks they are playing are starting to catch up with them. And “Because I’m doing this for the Right Side of History” won’t get you very far in front of a lawyer who wants to take you down for a nice chunk of change.

  5. At the same time, the WaPo publishes a short piece mentioning Chicago White Sox player Adam La Roche going undercover in a SE Asian brothel to help an organization free minors from sex trafficking.

    By Dewey’s standards, La Roche was an advocate of Gamergate digging up dirt to discredit Third Wave Feminist philosophies regarding adults having sex with children. It’s not possible any male could find Andrea Dworkin, Simone de Beauvoir or Shulamith Firestone loathsome or insane people with the predatory morals of a rock python. No, I must just not like lesbians and I’m sure Rapp and her insane husband were just going undercover as prostitutes to smash child sex rings. Rapp plants a fake college paper she wrote giving thumbs up to child porn so she can present it like an I.D. of street cred when she’s infiltrating kiddie sex rings on her dates. “Hey,” says Rapp as she gives some turd oral sex, “have you had any little girls do this lately who are dressed like me but actually are little girls? What? Can you say that louder and speak into my [redacted]?”

    “The amount of obsession it must take” to infiltrate sex rings and free drug addicted and abused minors must make Thai police undercover stings “professional opposition researchers.”

    “It says a lot about their tactics.” SHAME ON YOU SLUT SHAMING THAI POLICE AUTHORITIES! DO NOT COMB THROUGH ESCORT LISTINGS, ESPECIALLY OF HOOKERS DRESSED UP LIKE LITTLE GIRLS. THIS IS CONFIRMATION BIAS AND YOU MAY CONFIRM SOMETHING OR OTHER!!!

    Be on the alert! Gamergate has infiltrated Interpol and the U.N. They are misogynists who will stop at nothing to stop child sex trafficking. And don’t read my WaPo colleagues; they are “ruin-life.”

  6. Most journalists are Democrats, and this has been true for more than 50 years. Because liberalism is the philosophy of the Democrat Party, most journalists are also liberal. Yet it is their partisanship, rather than their ideology, that causes situations like this. Because feminists are part of the Democrat Party coalition, and GameGate is in some sense at war with feminists, GamerGate gets treated by the media the way Republicans get treated by the media. The presumption of bad motives? Check.. The willingness to believe whatever their enemies say about them? Check. The lazy reporting that doesn’t even bother verifying facts? Check.

    Look at the UVA lawsuits. Is Dean Eramo some kind of right-winger? I highly doubt it. Yet Rolling Stone needed villains for their rape-hoax story, and Dean Eramo “worked” for that role, so she got smeared by Erdely’s story.

    This is basically what’s happened with GamerGate. Nobody in the liberal media seems to care what actual wrongdoing is committed by Nyberg or any of the other anti-GamerGate people. Once they decided that GamerGate is a “right-wing” phenomenon, the Narrative is always anti-GamerGate.

  7. Still wondering what “Gamergate” was.
    Also, aren’t we waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy past the time to stop adding “gate” to everything?

  8. When we do it it’s called “harassment,” they do it and it’s called “investigation.”
    We do it, “hatred,” they do it, “activism.”
    We do it, “gentrification,” they do it, “diversity.”
    We do it, “white supremacy,” they do it, “#BlackLivesMatter.”
    We do it, “sexism,” they do it, “bravely resisting the patriarchy of a cisgendered heternormative hate movement which raped me in the coffee shop while I was checking my green-orange hair, adjusting my pro-homo/pro-Communism backpack buttons and ordering a dolphin-free $35 anti-poverty latte.”

    Libral word games, post-“1984.”

  9. From Inc. magazine:

    “However lascivious, not all information correlates to an employee’s ability to do the job for which she is hired,” said Nonnie Shivers, an attorney in the Phoenix office of Ogletree Deakins, one of the best law firms in the country. Shivers’ expertise is litigation avoidance through counseling and training: She regularly speaks on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, covering such issues as transgender transitioning, sexual harassment, and pay discrimination.

    “Some information may be ripe for gossip and judgment, but simply not reflect on the employee’s current ability to exercise good judgment in the course and scope of her duties,” said Shivers. “Employers should generally ask themselves if the information probe is job-related and consistent with business necessity and whether the information is probative of ability to perform the job. If an employee opposes paying taxes and refuses to pay personal income tax as a personal stance, does that illegal act impact their job performance? Does that change if your company is subject to a tax lien because of the employee’s protesting acts?”

    An obvious reason: while it is always possible that the outside information might not have any impact on an employee’s ability to do his job, it may still be perceived as a negative impact on sales if the information is public and well-known.

    Companies exist for the primary reason of making money; if the company’s leadership believes that a notorious employee is costing the company business, of course the company has a right to discharge the employee.

  11. A former reporter for The Washington Times wrote:

    it’s still hard to believe they published Dewey’s factually challenged, dishonest and completely one-sided smear on #GamerGate

    It’s not difficult to believe at all. For the editors to have spiked her story, they’d have had to have some idea that it was inaccurate or incomplete, and the only way they could have known that is if they had done some research themselves. If they had to do the research themselves, what would they need Miss Dewey for?

    Editors check stories for grammar — or at least they once did; I once got into it with an editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer about letting the description of an accident as “t-boned” get through — and completely egregious mistakes, but they basically trust their reporters to have done their fact-checking.

    Janet Cooke could not be reached for comment.

  13. In other news, iOTW Report posted a story about a 38 year old woman teacher screwing an underage male student in Pennsyvania.
    A 38-year-old Pennsylvania ethics teacher is learning a lesson of her own after she was charged with sexually assaulting a male Jeannette High School student in her classroom, her car, and at a Holiday Inn. …
    An ethics teacher (!) banging an underage student, whoda thunk it.
    I suppose the police were “doxing” and “harassing” this fine upstanding ethics teacher according to the Caitlin Dewey/WaPo standards highlighted in this post

  14. The police are “professional opposition researchers.”

    The truth is morons like Dewey drag the pin-cushioned welcome matt called “equal protection” out from under the bed like a syphilitic whore whenever they need to wave it around and then throw it back under the bed. Why, oh, why would anyone put it on the front stoop? She is either functionally retarded or a bald-faced liar.

  16. something, something, Structures of Power and Oppression of female teachers
    When I was in high school, I worked in a grocery store. One time I saw the loss prevention guys have an old man arrested for stealing a Sunday newspaper. I wondered what the big deal was, I had seen them let stupid teenagers go on similar offences. When I asked why they’d do such a thing, they showed me a folder they had on this seemingly nice old dude. He had a dozen local arrests, incidents and other documented cases of shoplifting over the previous decade, all of which fell short of producing a conviction in court. Now that they finally had the guy on video they weren’t going to let that incident slip.
    IMHO, I really doubt that this is the only student she screwed in her classroom, car or hotel room

  17. Why do you call Dewey an idiot? Do you believe that she doesn’t know what she’s doing?

    I’m done assuming the best of progressives. They are not decent people misled by an excess of zeal to do right. They are vile anti-human enslavers and mass murderers.

  19. “Because liberalism is the philosophy of the Democrat Party…”

    I disagree. Liberalism is the religion of the Democrats. The will to power is their philosophy.

  20. “-gate” will not be replaced until eclispsed by another massive political scandal involving Republicans.

    Nobody talks about “servergate” or “Benghazigate” or “Whitewatergate” or “Monicagate” or “Obamacaregate” or “IRSgate” or “FastandFuriousgate” or “VAgate.” Nor will they.

  21. Jeez, why all the hate at rump wranglers? No respect for the fudge packers? Hershey Highwaymen don’t get no love?

  23. Oh, so they were profiling the poor guy.

    See, this is exactly the sort of harassment Criminal-Americans have been facing since the beginning of this bigoted nation!

  24. Also Rapp worked for Nintendo. Out of all the big gaming companies it is by far the most focused on having an image of being as inoffensive and kid friendly as possible. They release a handful of adult targeted titles, but no where near the same level as their competitors and they are never that offensive in the big scheme of things. You can’t even play most of the well known really offensive adult titles on its systems.

    And Nintendo has fired employees for far more innocuous comments than what Rapp has done. They made gaming news a while back for firing a localizer (sort of a translator) who made rather harmless comments on a podcast interview about how much it cost to localize one of it’s games and how Nintendo probably won’t make much money off of it.

  26. The guy understood why he got fired and didn’t blame Nintendo for it. It was sort of silly since most people figured out a while ago they don’t turn that much profit on localizing niche games. Out of all of Nintendo’s issues turning only a small profit on American sales of Xenoblade Chronicles X is a tiny blip, but he violated company policy by talking about internal costs in public without permission.

  28. What ageist H8. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing such a good job of doing their job.

  29. That’s pretty weak. You need to put a few more forceful words in your future denunciations. Otherwise, people will get the idea you’re only kidding them.

  30. How about GamerNoFlyRule? That’s kinda catchy.

    Oh, wait, did you catch that? Muah-hahahahah. Oh, I did it again!

  33. The use of shovels involves manual labor. They’ll have to hire some illegal Mexican immigrants to do the digging for them.

  37. I would disagree further and say that progressivism is their religion, since it’s a shame that we have to specify “classical liberalism” when we mean what “liberalism” used to mean.

    I like that they adopted “progressivism” as the term for the doctrine of their cult, since it contains within it all you need to know about why nothing is ever right, and everything is problematic.

  38. For obvious reasons, we had a “shirtstorm” instead of a “shirtgate”, a much-needed reprieve. So now we can use “-storm”.

  40. Nonetheless I find it ironic that so-called progressives can offer us nothing but warmed over failed ideologies from the 19th Century.

  43. Because they are convinced that the Reagan Revolution and the Neoliberalism it brought to the United states was regressive. We were doing so well under 75% Marginal rates and spiraling inflation and we almost had Democratic socialist utopia and those regressive neanderthals under Reagan bush and clinton wrecked it all.

  44. Yeah. People with public personas or deal regularly with the everyday public need to really think about this stuff before opening their mouths.

    I don’t think some people realize that modern social media and viralcy can result in the loss of millions in capital and opportunity costs if the wrong group of people get the wrong ideas.

  47. Depends. Were you being ironic, subtly deprecating the colonialist masters of much of the 19th Century?

    Think very, very carefully before answering.

  48. Beat you to it, retired last August.

    But even then, never had a presence on social media, and even still was employed in one of those icky professions infested with the “burly men” feminists and metrosexuals so fear. So it would have taken a pretty egregious misstep for me to scuttle myself, and no, I don’t mean something like saying “All lives matter” or calling Caitlyn Jenner “Bruce.”

  49. Carefull she might be a grad of the Thomas Mix, Bill Schmalfeldt, Brett Kimberlin school of LOLaw. Tell the truth about me and I’ll sue cause truth is HATE!

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