Nina Tandon
A Korean-American reporter who stands at the center of the controversy over US President Joe Biden’s first greeting failure is a hot topic. Nira Tandon, who was nominated for the first time as the director of the White House Budget Office (OMB) of color, resigned on the 2nd (local time), and the person who provided a decisive point was Seung Min Kim of the Washington Post. ) Because I am a reporter.
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Reporter Kim is an American, but uses the Korean name as it is. On his Twitter, there is also a picture of a mother wearing a hanbok and wearing a veil. WP’s reporter introduction section says, “I speak Korean other than English.”
This is how reporter Kim unintentionally got caught up in the controversy. Tandon was one of the key figures of the Biden administration, but the expression was rough. It became a hot topic to leave swear words and vulgar words about former Republicans on Twitter. Worried about not getting approval from the Senate, the White House came to vote for the Republican nonpartisan lawmakers, and reporter Kim appeared in the process.
Seungmin Kim
Among the Republican non-partisan lawmakers, Lisa Merkoski was the most likely person to vote in favor of Tandon, and Tandon had once criticized him as well. When reporters covering him asked, “How do you view the tweet that Tandon called you’garbage,'” Merkosky, who did not know this, asked, “What is that?” and a reporter showed the tweet. He was reporter Kim. Fellow reporters took pictures and tweeted with the intention of “a scene of hard work,” sparking controversy. From the 24th of last month (local time), passionate supporters of the governments of Tandon and Biden started pouring malicious comments and e-mail attacks on reporter Kim.
Then WP began to protect. Reporter Kim’s boss, editor Stephen Ginsberg, made a statement in person.
“Racist, sexist, and false fact-based attacks on Seungmin are inundated. (Omitted) What Seungmin did is the basics of journalism. As a reporter, I just did the natural thing. We can no longer be proud that he is part of the WP.”
The support for reporter Kim also appeared in the New York Times (NYT). “There was discriminatory remarks on reporter Kim’s e-mail and social media, and Democrat supporters started calling senators who opposed Tandon’s nomination,” said Maureen Dowd, NYT’s leading female columnist, in a column. “I had to even hear the word’snitch’.” The key message of the Doud columnist, who has been publicly criticizing the Republican Party for decades, was that it was a mistake if Democratic supporters thought that reporters would break the brunt just because the Biden regime was in force. Eventually, Tandon resigned and it was reporter Kim who wrote this article. WP announced the news of Tandon’s resignation by stating Kim’s byline (reporter’s name).
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