Journalist Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza has earned a coveted place in the annals of silly lawsuits. She covers “Trump and the law” at the magazine Pacific Standard and is currently suing the president for blocking her on Twitter.
Last month, you see, the president tweeted that the media had done its best to keep him from winning the White House. She responded, “To be fair you didn’t win the WH: Russia won it for you.” Nine thousand people on Twitter liked her tweet. Trump was not among them. He blocked her from his Twitter feed, as he has with others who have trolled him.
So now Buckwalter-Poza has joined a lawsuit against Trump brought by some whom he has blocked. Never mind that “blocking” someone on the social media site doesn’t mean they can’t otherwise see your public tweets. But if you think that lawsuit is dumb, wait until you read Buckwalter-Poza’s recent piece in Fortune headlined “Trump Blocked Me on Twitter and It’s Costing Me My Career.”
“Even though I knew @realDonaldTrump was important to my career,” she writes, “it still took me at least a few days to recognize how being blocked by the president on Twitter would affect me as a public intellectual.” (The first rule of being a public intellectual, by the way, is that if you have to call yourself one, you probably aren’t.) It goes downhill from there:
You read that right. Buckwalter-Poza is contending that being unable to directly mock the president’s tweets on his own Twitter feed hampers her ability to impress her journalistic peers. It just goes to show what it takes to get ahead in the media game these days.
