Author: Michael

Karen Attiah must be reinstated by The Washington Post and receive back pay after an arbitrator ruled the newspaper lacked sufficient cause to fire the opinion columnist over her social media posts following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa found the Post “did not have good and sufficient cause” to terminate Attiah and failed to establish that she engaged in “gross misconduct,” according to a decision obtained by The New York Times. Attiah was fired by the Post in September after posting about Kirk’s killing on Bluesky. “This decision confirms what we’ve said from the…

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has canceled his office’s Monday settlement meeting with Paramount, accusing the studio of leaking details of their impending discussions and acting in bad faith. “Not only did Paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith,” Bonta said in a statement. “As soon as Paramount stops playing games and engages sincerely, my office is happy to meet again.” Representatives from Paramount were scheduled to meet with the California AG’s office on Monday to discuss a potential settlement of the latter’s antitrust suit seeking to block…

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