Thread by @RLewisReports: "Think we figured out why she deleted her entire tweet history... As an editor can you explain why it was OK for your journalist to repeatedl […]"

Think we figured out why she deleted her entire tweet history... As an editor can you explain why it was OK for your journalist to repeatedly publicly insult someone who would go on to be the subject of an article smearing them using guilt by association? Hardly impartial is it?

And on it goes...

Also worth noting that just 2 weeks ago Erin categorically stated that such Twitter messages were not harassment and that it did not affect her. In fact, she said she likes to know when people are abusing her. Quite the turnaround I'd say.

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Oh, and whatever the positive intentions of this methodology, it's actually quite telling not one editor has picked this up as a serious training issue when it comes to sourcing her stories. Here she admits to representing people who discount their own expertise as "experts."

Also @NoahShachtman if what she says in the article is true about receiving death threats, why did she not use them as it would only strengthen her argument? Did she back them up before deleting her Twitter history? Surely as an editor you saw them, right?