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About AP and Emily Wilder: What does a reporter owe a news organization?

Wilder is accusing the news media – and implicitly her employers – of a pro-Israel bias because of the words they choose in reporting the conflict.

Ken Paulson
Opinion columnist

I have some sympathy for the Associated Press as it’s being pummeled for firing a young reporter over social media posts.

Not a lot of sympathy, mind you. The decision to fire Emily Wilder weeks into her new job for allegedly partisan tweets was ham-handed. A rookie reporter with great promise should be called into an office for a conversation and warning rather than a termination.