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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe "journalist" from the New York Post is resigning over the Kamala Harris story:
The Kamala Harris story -- an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against -- was my breaking point.
It's been a privilege to cover the City of New York for its liveliest, wittiest tabloid -- a paper filled with reporters and editors I admire deeply and hold as friends. I'm sad to leave.
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Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 27, 2021, 08:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Although, if she was always willing to lose her job over the story, why not just say 'no' when she was supposedly ordered to write that story??
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)after being caught, and she figured if she was going down, she would take others down with her.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)I can't see falling on one's sword over this one, more likely a slow brew.
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)It's a Rupert Murdoch Reich wing propaganda rag.
NOTHING MORE.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)What are you gonna do?
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)getagrip_already
(14,891 posts)they claimed her book was inserted into welcome kits given to immigrants crossing the border.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)getagrip_already
(14,891 posts)The us doesn't give welcome kits, and nobody was handing out any books.
They probably would have said it was written in arabic before spanish......
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)reACTIONary
(5,789 posts)... if she has to take over as president, she has to be a natural born american. And she can run for prez in 2028.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)reACTIONary
(5,789 posts)IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)shared with Jamaica. Kind of like how Hawaii was colonized by Kenya when Obama led the Meow Meow uprising.
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)there was one copy donated and the lying liars ran with it.
AverageOldGuy
(1,555 posts). . . . earlier today I read an article that a local group collected donated books to give to migrant kids. Someone donated a copy of Harris' book "Superheroes Are Everywhere."
Goddam Republicans and Fox jumped on this, claiming that copies of the book were included in "welcome kits" given to immigrant kids. It's typical GOP bullshit, but, a lie goes around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)demmiblue
(36,903 posts)A link to the story, which was published last week and promoted on the tabloid's cover, now re-directs to the newspaper's website.
Several Republican politicians and political figures promoted the story, which went viral.
After learning officials are handing out Kamala Harris book to migrants in facilities at the border, its worth asking Was Harris paid for these books? Is she profiting from Bidens border crisis? asked Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel in a tweet on Monday.
A Washington Post fact check of the claim rated it to be false, awarding the story four "Pinocchios" out of a possible five.
"This is a good example of how misinformation spreads on right-wing media and gets amplified by Republican leaders," The Post wrote while debunking the claim. "The New York Post reported that Harriss book was being included in 'welcome kits' for migrant children arriving in Long Beachs shelter. Fox News repeated the claim, attributing it to 'photographs.'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/550498-new-york-post-deletes-story-alleging-kamala-harris-book-given-to-migrant
Basically, it was a community book drive; one person donated Kamala's book.
luckone
(21,646 posts)krkaufman
(13,438 posts)How does it rate just 4 out of 5 ??
Eugene
(61,965 posts)4 Pinocchios = a whopper of a lie.
5 Pinocchios is a "these go to 11" exaggeration used informally to point out a pol's dishonesty.
There is however the Bottomless Pinocchio for persistent Big Lies.
Sloppy reporting by The Hill that waters down the offensiveness of the propaganda.
Ocelot II
(115,899 posts)that Harris' book was given to all of the refugee children (at government expense), but the truth is that a single copy was donated by an individual and was photographed at a shelter.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Sounds like something Jacob Wohl or Project Veritas would do.
Peppertoo
(435 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This isn't like a background source who burned you but to whom you feel some inexplicable loyalty, this was someone who will order another reporter to write an "incorrect" story (that sounds so much nicer than a "lie," doesn't it?) to deceive the public and quite possibly put at risk the job of another reporter that you admire deeply. If you don't owe it to your career to out this person, don't you owe it to the reading public? Or to your friends still at the Post?
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)captain queeg
(10,273 posts)One donated copy from a book drive. Well it was 99.5% false, so thats good enough for the RW; a half percent is more than many of their stories.
spanone
(135,900 posts)dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Takket
(21,644 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Checking
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Nope. Still don't care.
Marcuse
(7,530 posts)Like when the RNCs bulk purchases of Juniors book placed it on the NYT best seller list.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)that blew up in RW land, regarding the pure fake news that the NY Boast published 2 stories about, then supposedly took them down, but then republished with "Editor's notes" or something.
Found the article here - https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-post-pulls-down-debunked-reports-that-kamala-harris-book-was-given-to-migrant-kids
(they updated it in a new article here - https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-post-reporter-quits-says-she-was-forced-to-write-false-kamala-story)
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)... when the editor rewrote it without my consent. But most news organizations are not that happy for stubborn reporters...
wolfie001
(2,279 posts)Good night to all!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Celerity
(43,588 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)thenelm1
(855 posts)The NYP is a complete, Murdoch owned (I believe), krap rag. Name names Ms. Italiano - maybe we can rid of us of these "priests" of BS once an for all. This ass and his family got busted in the UK for ratfuckery. Can we make it happen here?
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