By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, March 2012
In late March 2012, Wonkette’s editor and new owner Rebecca Schoenkopf got into a high-profile Twitter feud with LA Weekly staff reporter Dennis Romero. The proximate trigger was a grammatical-error tweet that escalated into an extended public exchange.
Then
Rebecca Schoenkopf had been Wonkette’s editor since acquiring the political-snark blog in 2012 after the site’s prior ownership had been put up for sale.
Dennis Romero was, in 2012, a longtime LA Weekly staff reporter with a substantial portfolio of LA-regional crime, immigration, and politics reporting.
The proximate Twitter exchange was structurally characteristic of the early-2010s alt-press-Twitter dynamic.
The original FishbowlLA framing was warmly observational.
Now
Rebecca Schoenkopf has continued running Wonkette across the entire post-2012 interval — a 13-year tenure that has made Wonkette one of the longest-continuously-running American political-snark blogs.
Dennis Romero left LA Weekly during the 2017 ownership transition and subsequently moved to NBC News, where he has continued as a national-and-regional immigration reporter.
LA Weekly itself went through the 2017 sale and staff purge.
Twitter has gone through the 2022 Elon Musk acquisition and the 2023 rebrand to X.
The 2012 piece reads now as a small documented moment of early-2010s alt-press Twitter culture.
Original report archived on the Wayback Machine.