Joan Juliet Buck lost her job at Vogue after writing a story about Asma al-Assad, during the start of the Arab Spring that was embarrassingly titled “A Rose in the Desert” (full article deleted by Vogue but you can read here). A year later, Buck is sharing her side of the story on The Daily beast and the background behind Vogue publishing the disastrous al-Assad story (full article here). Below are two excerpts, from the badly written article, I found telling and ironic:
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