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demmiblue

(36,742 posts)
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 06:40 PM Apr 2021

The "journalist" from the New York Post is resigning over the Kamala Harris story:

An announcement: Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post.

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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The "journalist" from the New York Post is resigning over the Kamala Harris story: (Original Post) demmiblue Apr 2021 OP
WOW! Bleacher Creature Apr 2021 #1
Maybe they wanted her to "Fall on her sword" TheRealNorth Apr 2021 #10
guess she liked her job, or just having one. stillcool Apr 2021 #11
"Lively, wittiest tabloid??? BULLSHIT AZ8theist Apr 2021 #34
Eye of the beholder, I guess. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #36
So what's "the Kamala Harris story"? Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2021 #2
basically... getagrip_already Apr 2021 #3
Ah. Spanish version editions, I assume. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2021 #5
a lie within a lie....... getagrip_already Apr 2021 #8
Or Hindi cuz Kamala was born in India Dream Girl Apr 2021 #14
In oakland ca, not india. This is important because... reACTIONary Apr 2021 #29
This was sarcasm Dream Girl Apr 2021 #39
OK nt reACTIONary Apr 2021 #41
Oakland California is an overseas territory of India IronLionZion Apr 2021 #31
Right wing media was trying to say that tax dollars were used to buy her book to give to immigrants Beaverhausen Apr 2021 #12
I don't have a link, but . . . . AverageOldGuy Apr 2021 #32
Yeah! I haven't heard a thing! nt LAS14 Apr 2021 #4
Here: demmiblue Apr 2021 #6
OFFS What rubbish but thanks for the back fill on the story luckone Apr 2021 #20
4 of 5 Pinocchio's ??? krkaufman Apr 2021 #28
The WaPo fact checker only goes up to 4 Pinocchios. Eugene Apr 2021 #37
It's been all over the news all day, but basically it was a false claim Ocelot II Apr 2021 #7
I wonder if it was a set-up TheRealNorth Apr 2021 #13
Bingo mjvpi Apr 2021 #25
I Hope others working for the ny post follow suit. Peppertoo Apr 2021 #9
So who ordered you to write the story, Laura? gratuitous Apr 2021 #15
Maybe she can answer that question in front of Congress exboyfil Apr 2021 #33
Sounds like typical RW "news". Probably contains more of a shred of "truth" than your average Fox captain queeg Apr 2021 #16
fuck the post... spanone Apr 2021 #17
More proof that the REAL Fake News comes from the right wing. dalton99a Apr 2021 #18
the "liberal media", right? Takket Apr 2021 #19
Trying to care. DURHAM D Apr 2021 #21
RW projection again. The former guy would have done that and called them booksales. Marcuse Apr 2021 #22
I had just seen I think a Daily Beast article on this latest Murdoch fiasco BumRushDaShow Apr 2021 #23
As a journalist, I made sure my own name was removed from a story ... TomWilm Apr 2021 #24
That Muther Fucker Murdoch! wolfie001 Apr 2021 #26
Need to deport Rupert Murdoch's wrinkled old ass back to Australia. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 #27
He cannot be deported, he has been a US citizen for 36 years. nt Celerity Apr 2021 #38
Yet on the way out the door she praises the reporters and editors. NT SayItLoud Apr 2021 #30
Ordered? Where's that name? And why isn't he/she being nailed to the same cross? n/t thenelm1 Apr 2021 #35
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Apr 2021 #40

Bleacher Creature

(11,235 posts)
1. WOW!
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 06:43 PM
Apr 2021

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

(9,435 posts)
10. Maybe they wanted her to "Fall on her sword"
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:06 PM
Apr 2021

after being caught, and she figured if she was going down, she would take others down with her.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
11. guess she liked her job, or just having one.
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:06 PM
Apr 2021

I can't see falling on one's sword over this one, more likely a slow brew.

getagrip_already

(14,225 posts)
8. a lie within a lie.......
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 06:56 PM
Apr 2021

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......

reACTIONary

(5,749 posts)
29. In oakland ca, not india. This is important because...
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 08:58 PM
Apr 2021

... if she has to take over as president, she has to be a natural born american. And she can run for prez in 2028.

IronLionZion

(45,250 posts)
31. Oakland California is an overseas territory of India
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 09:11 PM
Apr 2021

shared with Jamaica. Kind of like how Hawaii was colonized by Kenya when Obama led the Meow Meow uprising.



Beaverhausen

(24,466 posts)
12. Right wing media was trying to say that tax dollars were used to buy her book to give to immigrants
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:09 PM
Apr 2021

there was one copy donated and the lying liars ran with it.

AverageOldGuy

(1,460 posts)
32. I don't have a link, but . . . .
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 09:15 PM
Apr 2021

. . . . 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.

demmiblue

(36,742 posts)
6. Here:
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 06:54 PM
Apr 2021
The New York Post has removed a story from its website that suggested copies of a book by Vice President Harris were given to migrant children who have crossed the border in "welcome kits."

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, it’s worth asking… Was Harris paid for these books? Is she profiting from Biden’s 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 Harris’s book was being included in 'welcome kits' for migrant children arriving in Long Beach’s 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.

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
37. The WaPo fact checker only goes up to 4 Pinocchios.
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 11:38 PM
Apr 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/07/about-fact-checker/

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

(115,267 posts)
7. It's been all over the news all day, but basically it was a false claim
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 06:54 PM
Apr 2021

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.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
15. So who ordered you to write the story, Laura?
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:11 PM
Apr 2021

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?

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
16. Sounds like typical RW "news". Probably contains more of a shred of "truth" than your average Fox
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:11 PM
Apr 2021

One donated copy from a book drive. Well it was 99.5% false, so that’s good enough for the RW; a half percent is more than many of their stories.

Marcuse

(7,391 posts)
22. RW projection again. The former guy would have done that and called them booksales.
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:39 PM
Apr 2021

Like when the RNC’s bulk purchases of Junior’s book placed it on the NYT best seller list.

BumRushDaShow

(127,268 posts)
23. I had just seen I think a Daily Beast article on this latest Murdoch fiasco
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:41 PM
Apr 2021

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)
24. As a journalist, I made sure my own name was removed from a story ...
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:50 PM
Apr 2021

... when the editor rewrote it without my consent. But most news organizations are not that happy for stubborn reporters...

thenelm1

(843 posts)
35. Ordered? Where's that name? And why isn't he/she being nailed to the same cross? n/t
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 09:26 PM
Apr 2021

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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