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Steve Bannon, left, and Larry Solov, right, in the offices of Breitbart.com in Los Angeles. | Getty Media figures rail against Breitbart

Members of the media from across the spectrum railed against Breitbart for not standing up more for their reporter who said she was aggressively jostled by Donald Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski earlier this week.

Following Trump’s press conference in Florida on Tuesday, Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields was attempting to ask Trump a question as he moved through the room. But as Trump walked through with his Secret Service protection, Fields was yanked away by Lewandowski. (Read her own account of the incident here).

Fields was bruised and shaken up. But for many fellow journalists, what happened next was nearly as bad as a presidential campaign manager becoming physical with a reporter.

Around 2 a.m. Kurt Bardella, a spokesperson for Breitbart, issued a statement attributed to Breitbart CEO Larry Solov that seemed to question whether Lewandowski was at fault. It pointed to Ben Terris of the Washington Post as the one who identified Lewandowski, not Fields, noting “if” it was Lewandowski, he should apologize.

Though a source said Washington Editor Matthew Boyle had been in touch with Lewandowski, Bardella claimed that Breitbart had not spoken to anyone at the Trump campaign. Adding to the confusion, Breitbart’s homepage linked to a critical Daily Beast piece which also reported that Boyle had been in touch with Lewandowski, and that Lewandowski told Boyle he didn’t recognize Fields as a Breitbart reporter on Tuesday evening.

Breitbart’s top staff have remained quiet on the matter, including inside the company to Fields herself. Neither Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon, Solov or Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow had reached out to Fields as of Thursday morning, according to sources close to the situation, though Bardella insisted in an email one of them had.

Some Breitbart employees and contributors were more forthright.

"I'm not privy to editorial decisions at Breitbart. As I've said, there is no excuse for Lewandowski's assault; he should be fired. And every good hearted person should stand with Michelle and the rights of all Americans to be free of violence,” Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro wrote in an email. Bardella later blasted out Shapiro’s tweets about the incident, calling for Lewandowski to be fired.

According to another source, there was a specific request from Breitbart management for reporters not to discuss The Daily Beast article and more broadly, the Michelle Fields situation on social media.

But if Fields’ coworkers weren’t all publicly rushing to her defense, other media figures were.

"I stand with @MichelleFields and if the First Amendment means anything to you, you should too. Sadly, many promoting Trump in media won’t,” TownHall editor and Fox contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted.

"Lewandowski should be fired. Other staffers have been let go for far less. Trump keeping him makes a statement,” tweeted conservative radio host Dana Loesch as part of a long rant about the incident. "And any of you in new media, be you writers or talkers, who stay silent rather than condemn? You're just as bad. Grow a pair,” she added in a later tweet.

"Any publication that doesn't stand by their journalists in the face of assault by a candidate's staff is a joke,” tweeted Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi.

Bardella said Fields would begin speaking out more publicly as soon as Thursday afternoon with appearances on television, though it wasn't clear when or where.

“She has quite the lists of requests and trying to figure out who asked what where when,” Bardella said.

This post has been updated.