The fact that Miss Griffith was let go because of her column on Wednesday is an unfortunate turn of events. To be honest, I have never agreed with many of her columns, but I must disagree with The Post's course of action. In her column, Miss Griffith may have not mentioned her affiliation to the AAA party, but by doing so it seems as though she has taken the high road in not using her position at The Post as a pedestal from which to advertise herself. It is true that disclosing her affiliation may have made more clear the reason for supporting Michael Adeyanju. In her column, she simply expressed her support of Michael Adeyanju for Student Senate President. This is no different than the editors of The Post endorsing their favorite candidate for the same position.
Miss DeBruin, who explains the reasoning for Griffith's dismissal in an editor's note, claims that Griffith's error of not mentioning her affiliation was a clear conflict of interest and a severe ethical breach. DeBruin even goes so far as to prematurely dismiss any possible reactions by readers. Miss DeBruin, I doubt you have regained even one reader's trust, except for maybe those who already disliked Griffith's weekly columns. What is odd is that Griffith was dismissed before, as far as I know, anybody had even called for her dismissal. What about the scores of readers who screamed and protested for the firing of Chris Yonker?
It is interesting that during a year in which The Post has failed to be accountable on numerous occasions, including a blatantly racist column by Chris Yonker (whether intended or not) and false plagiarism accusations against faculty, Miss Griffith is the first Post staff member to be reprimanded for the slightest of errors. I do not know if the previous faults of The Post caused a staff witch hunt or if somebody was simply head hunting, but Miss Griffith's dismissal was ridiculous and simply uncalled for.
Jacob Wright-Piekarski is a sophomore HTC chemistry major.
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