State Department restores Foreign Service spouse’s blog to its Web site after pulling it

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Washington Post:

Jennifer Dinoia’s blog, pulled from a State Department blogroll following an intimate posting on her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, is back in its prominent spot on the agency’s Web site.

“The Dinoia Family,” which has featured the Foreign Service spouse’s journey through a breast cancer diagnosis at 39 as her husband was on a solo tour in Iraq, reappeared Thursday on the State Department-sanctioned site, hours after The Post reported that it had disappeared.

Dinoia had used the “n” word — Nipple — as she described the latest of four reconstructive breast surgeries, which recreated a nipple on her left breast. To avoid infection during her recovery, she had to protect the surgical site with a protective gauze contraption a friend dubbed a “nipple cozy.”

In a statement to The Post, State Department spokesman Mark C. Toner said the blog “has been restored” on the State Department’s recruitment page. “It had been taken down as part of a periodic effort by a contractor to review and freshen the blog links on the site.”

But the statement is at odds with what Dinoia was told in an e-mail early this week by a recruiting and marketing consultant for the agency when she discovered her blog had been removed from the State Department blogroll.

“Hopefully, you can understand that some topics covered in your blog are very personal in nature, e.g. nipple cozies,” the employee wrote, “and wouldn’t necessarily resonate with the majority of potential candidates who are interested in learning about the FS [Foreign Service] life overseas.”

“Through our years of recruitment experience, we found that FS prospects want to learn more about the work that’s conducted, the people and cultures with whom they will interact, the travel experiences, and the individual stories our employees have to share.”

“If the explanation really was that simple, why didn’t they say that at first?” Dinoia said Thursday. “Something still doesn’t make sense. The reason they gave me was just bizarre.”

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