Meet The Young Reporter Who Rocked MSNBC's World-Wrote the KO Story

[RamboLiberal]

The journalist who broke the story that got Keith Olbermann suspended from MSNBC is a recent college grad who's been working in D.C. for less than six months..

Simmi Aujla was a member of Brown University's class of 2009. She joined the staff at Politico in May. On Friday morning, she exposed MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's campaign contributions to three Democratic candidates in Tuesday's election.

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Aujla covers Congress for Politico. She is a native of Timonium, Maryland. Aujla was editor-in-chief of her college paper, the Brown Daily Herald. As of this writing, she has not responded to a request for comment from The Observer, but she has been Tweeting furiously about the ongoing fallout from her story all day.

http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/meet-young-reporter-who-rocked-msnbcs-world



http://twitter.com/simmiaujla

[Kookaburra]

1. Self deleted

[B2G]

14. Let's not shoot the messenger

The blame belongs solely to NBC.

[AndrewP]

17. Yep

[Kookaburra]

18. self deleted

[B2G]

20. Please define 'fair game'

She's a kid fresh out of college. I will be you dollars to donuts that she's getting death threats inside of 2 days. I want no part of demonizing her. None of us should. She reported something that NBC acted on. Save your fucking ire for them.

[Kookaburra]

22. Self deleted

[B2G]

25. Mysogamy

If that floats your boat, go for it.

[Kookaburra]

28. Wasn't sure what mysogamy was so I looked it up

Hatred of marriage? I don't hate marriage. Marriage is fine as long as everyone is allowed to get married, and it isn't reserved only for heterosexual couples.

And in case you meant misogyny, I don't hate women either.

She's perfectly fine -- not a thing wrong with her.

[B2G]

29. What does her looks, voice, personality, etc

have to do with anything? You are taking out your anger on a young kid fresh out of school rather than the execs who made this decision. I understand that you are angry, but anger directed at the wrong source can escalate into things that are untoward. I'm not saying YOU would do anything...but I've seen mob mentality take over way too often.

I have a child her age that aspires to be a journalist. If she worked for a liberal publication and wrote a high profile piece that pissed off the right, I would be scared for her. I don't want this girl's parents to have to be scared for *her*.

[Kookaburra]

32. Please accept my apologies

She's fine.

[HughMoran]

37. Well said!

:thumbsup:

[Justitia]

2. Leave it to Drudge, oh, excuse me, 'Politico', to be the instigator of this. -eom

[malaise]

5. DIng ding

we have a winner

[blondeatlast]

12. Winner. nt

[MineralMan]

3. Well, I hope she grows up to be a journalist, if that's her goal.

Uff da!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. She's a twit.

How many other commentators is she working to bring down? I hope it happens to her someday.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. MSNBC is the one that suspended KO, not her

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Politico through this girl was the snitch.

I blame them all.

[Gaedel]

16. You wiould be dancing in the streets

and nominating her for a Pulitzer

if she brought down Rush Limbaugh

[Kalyke]

26. Except that will NEVER happen under today's media rule.

Please...

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Actually, no, I wouldn't,

and you don't know me well enough to say that. I am a big believer in free speech and freedom of the press. I think Rush/Beck/etc. have just as much of a right to spew their bullshit as Keith does to tell the truth.

Sorry to disappoint.

ed. I also have the right to call this young lady a twit. I don't agree with what she did.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Politico...

now it makes sense.... hmm

[Still Waters]

7. Simmi, please do a story on all the Faux reporters contributions

[MidwestRick]

10. Her story broke

that KO was put on ice. She didn't actually report those findings to MSNBC did she?

-MR

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Another tool of the right

Like she never heard of media people giving money to candidates before.

[activa8tr]

11. DID anyone look at THIS on her own Twitter page??? Kind of ironic...

"Chris Hayes, who's filling in for Olbermann tonight, donated to college friend Josh Segall in his '08 House bid (knew each other at Brown)."

But Chris is NOT filling in! She got the facts wrong!

[blondeatlast]

13. So we are being told... I simply no longer trust the m$m--

I'm betting it's really some pasty, soft Heritage Foundation intern--she just got a "little" help (as in, the whole impossibly spun story) from that intern.

[monmouth]

19. She'll be a regular on Morning Joe now...n/t

[HughMoran]

21. Leave her alone

fucking animals. The kid is just doing her job.

[B2G]

23. +1000

Thank you.

[NashVegas]

33. Bullshit. Totally Fair Game

Let her see FIRST HAND what experienced journalists who try to report REAL news have to face everytime they piss off the powerful.

[Cid_B]

38. How dare she report facts?!

Doesn't she know that only certain people are targets? Tsk and for shame..

Fuckin hypocrisy here is unheard of...

[apocalypsehow]

39. Sad. And I bet you consider yourself some kind of tolerant "progressive" too, don't yah?

:eyes:

[tammywammy]

36. +1000000 n/t

[malaise]

24. Hmmmmmmmmm one more fugging POLITICO

hack :puke:

[cynatnite]

30. I don't blame her at all...

The fault lies with MSNBC.

[Dawson Leery]

31. Drudge, I mean Breitbart, I meant Politico strikes again!

[NashVegas]

34. Is She To Blame For Working For a Bad Media Outlet? Well, Yeah, Actually She Is

No one put a gun to her head and told her to go write for Politico.

BTW, this is in the responses:

Griffin's decision to suspend Olbermann smacks of hypocrisy, when a simple search of Open Secrets shows that MSNBC employees Pat Buchanan, Larry Kudlow, Donnie Deutsch, and Joe Scarborough have all made donations as well. Apparently Aujla's own reporting did not make any further connections. Nor did she look at the donation's that new owner Comcast has made to various Republican groups and candidates.

Or perhaps it's okay to make donations when they go to Republicans.

[AnnieBW]

35. She's got a bright future ahead of her at FOX News

Too bad she's a little too "ethnic" for them.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

40. I'm confused. Was there some sort of investigative journalism involved here?

Broke the story? Does that mean first person to run Kieth's name through Open Secrets?

Or is there something I'm missing?