New York Post Pressured Reporter to Write a False Story About Undocumented Minors

[Ef-man]

The conservative media creates the outrage for the gullible.

A New York Post story about Kamala Harris triggered conservative outrage. Almost all of it was wrong. Now the reporter has resigned.

A longtime New York Post reporter said she has resigned after being “ordered” to write a false story that claimed undocumented minors were being welcomed to the United States with copies of a children’s book written by Vice President Harris.

“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,” Laura Italiano tweeted Tuesday afternoon, several hours after her viral article about the books had been deleted from the Post’s website and replaced with corrected versions.

Italiano, who has written for the Post since the 1990s, according to news archives, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Since the Post published the story on its front page Saturday, the conservative mediascape has been in an uproar over the supposed distribution of Harris’s 2019 book, “Superheroes Are Everywhere,” at migrant shelters. A slew of prominent Republicans expressed outrage over the possibility that taxpayers were funding the program. Even the White House press secretary was grilled about it.

And then on Tuesday, in a one-sentence note at the bottom of the original online article, the Post acknowledged that almost none of it was true.

“Editor’s note: The original version of this article said migrant kids were getting Harris’ book in a welcome kit, but has been updated to note that only one known copy of the book was given to a child,” it read in full.

In fact, it’s not even clear whether a child actually received that single copy of the book, which was photographed by Reuters on a vacant bed at a shelter in Long Beach, Calif., last week. It was one of many items, including toys and clothing, donated by residents in a citywide drive, Long Beach officials said. No government funds were used to purchase the items, according to a city spokeswoman.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/new-york-post-kamala-harris-correction-migrant-book/2021/04/27/ec297ac6-a769-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html

[Spurtacular]

Bitch been a reporter for them for three decades and she want to blame others for her lack of integrity?

That's pathetic.

[ChumpDumper]

Bitch been a reporter for them for three decades and she want to blame others for her lack of integrity?

That's pathetic.lol you fell for Rupert's fake news, derp.

[Ef-man]

lol you fell for Rupert's fake news, derp.

Hook, line, and sinker. :lol

[Spurtacular]

lol you fell for Rupert's fake news, derp.

Why's it fake news? Because a liar told you it's so?

:lol Derp

[DMC]

Dan Rather pressured to air false Killian document story about Bush's service record.

[ChumpDumper]

Why's it fake news? Because a liar told you it's so?

:lol DerpWait, you think it's a true story, derp?

Yes or no.

Also: :lmao DMC's whataboutorando

[ElNono]

Bitch been a reporter for them for three decades and she want to blame others for her lack of integrity?

I'm pretty confident that if she would've resigned before actually writing that article, you would blame Harris and still be mad at "the bitch" for caving.

I mean, if actually resigning over this article with a 30 year career on the newspaper is not a show of integrity, I don't know what is.

[Spurtacular]

I'm pretty confident that if she would've resigned before actually writing that article, you would blame Harris and still be mad at "the bitch" for caving.

I mean, if actually resigning over this article with a 30 year career on the newspaper is not a show of integrity, I don't know what is.

One way or another, she lied. That's the opposite of integrity.

[boutons_deux]

I'm pretty confident that if she would've resigned before actually writing that article, you would blame Harris and still be mad at "the bitch" for caving.

I mean, if actually resigning over this article with a 30 year career on the newspaper is not a show of integrity, I don't know what is.

I know "what is integrity": refusing to write the article

But working at a Murdoch shit-stained toilet paper makes one's integrity suspicious.

[coyotes_geek]

I'm pretty confident that if she would've resigned before actually writing that article, you would blame Harris and still be mad at "the bitch" for caving.

I mean, if actually resigning over this article with a 30 year career on the newspaper is not a show of integrity, I don't know what is.

Integrity would have been refusing to write the article in the first place. Going along with it and only resigning after getting called out, blaming others on your way out the door, is scapegoating, not integrity.

That's not to say that her accusations aren't true though......

[ElNono]

One way or another, she lied. That's the opposite of integrity.




I know "what is integrity": refusing to write the article

But working at a Murdoch shit-stained toilet paper makes one's integrity suspicious.





Integrity would have been refusing to write the article in the first place. Going along with it and only resigning after getting called out, blaming others on your way out the door, is scapegoating, not integrity.

That's not to say that her accusations aren't true though......

I don't completely disagree with this, but it wouldn't have cost her anything to stick with the company line and keep her 3 decades long job. Especially in this political climate where fake news are rampant and seemingly inconsequential.

What I took exception with was the notion of having no integrity at all. Clearly at least stepping up and doing something about her lie shows at least a modicum of integrity after the fact.

Was it too late? probably. She's now going to pay the price of likely being unemployable and lack any credibility going forward. This wasn't the easiest road for her, and surely not the road of job security.

[Ef-man]

Dan Rather pressured to air false Killian document story about Bush's service record.

Interesting.

Who (manager) in New York Post has been fired for ordering the story?

[MultiTroll]

:lol the defenders of the lie on this thread.

Reflecting their leader Dunceolds level of interity.
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/81/a4/fc/81a4fc53f0ab129a061c5a64becedfde--trump-anti-democrats-.jpg?nii=t

[Spurtacular]

Fabbs sees his in.

[Isitjustme?]

Dan Rather pressured to air false Killian document story about Bush's service record.

Both sides!!

[Isitjustme?]

Dan Rather pressured to air false Killian document story about Bush's service record.

Both sides!!

[DMC]

Nah, point isn't about sides. It's that "pressured" is just a euphemism for "paid".

[DMC]

Interesting.

Who (manager) in New York Post has been fired for ordering the story?

Was Dan pressured to air it? Yes or no?

Ordering the story? :lol

The fact the press can order false narrative and get it is the issue.

[ChumpDumper]

BOTH SIDES

[Ef-man]

Was Dan pressured to air it? Yes or no?

Ordering the story? :lol

The fact the press can order false narrative and get it is the issue.

Not even close to both sides narrative.

Try harder.

[RandomGuy]

Why's it fake news? Because a liar told you it's so?

:lol Derp

:lol fake snow boy can't tell what is true.

[RandomGuy]

Was Dan pressured to air it? Yes or no?

Ordering the story? :lol

The fact the press can order false narrative and get it is the issue.

Hurr dee durr, both sides. :lol

[DMC]

Not even close to both sides narrative.

Try harder.

I wasn't even going for a both sides narrative. I was going for a personal responsibility angle. What you write is on you.

[DMC]

Hurr dee durr, both sides. :lol

3rd time is a charm. Wasn't going for that narrative but let's explore that a little - why would it be wrong to do so?

[Ef-man]

I wasn't even going for a both sides narrative. I was going for a personal responsibility angle. What you write is on you.

Ahhh, I see your Harden defense move, ok.

CBS (producers and Dan Rather) messed up and believed source and documents provided without fully authenticating them to high degree they should have. There was no rush.

Producer was fired, as well as some other executive producers. Dan Rather left CBS in early 2005.

Much different story development and consequences at CBS than the New York Post crap.

[DMC]

Ahhh, I see your Harden defense move, ok.

CBS (producers and Dan Rather) messed up and believed source and documents provided without fully authenticating them to high degree they should have. There was no rush.

Producer was fired, as well as some other executive producers. Dan Rather left CBS in early 2005.

Much different story development and consequences at CBS than the New York Post crap.

Irrelevant. Was he pressured to go forward with the story?

Was the producer pressured to go forward with it?

You claim you see the move but you respond then as if you don't. Like I did the okie doke on you.

[Ef-man]

Only thing irrelevant is you and your position.

Oh, whataboutism was not my position. It is about responsibility or something vague like that.

Comparing the responsibility of the New York Post (a shit right wing news organization owned by Murdoch, who also owns right wing Fox) to CBS is completely laughable.

Might as well say that derp has an above average iq or ducks is well educated if you even believe your position for one second.

Dan Rather and the producer were not pressured, they screwed up by believing the material they were provided and not authenticating it. CBS made sure there were consequences, as a responsible news organization.

Guess you have no qualms with stories put out by Tucker or Hannity either, right?

Explains why your family ignores you.

[Ef-man]

Decided to treat DMC like his family treats him.

This message is hidden because DMC is on your ignore list.

[ChumpDumper]

lol DMC still trying so hard

[boutons_deux]

Both sides!!

Lying, whatabout-ism, World Champion hypocrisy, fabricated, false outrage, is all the Repugs, Fox, RWHM has these days,

proving that "All Politics, All The Time" has nothing to do with governing, which the Repugs refuse to do.

Also proves how stupid, ignorant, irrational ("religious") they know Repug voters are. God Guns Gays Racism Misogyny

[Isitjustme?]

I wasn't even going for a both sides narrative. I was going for a personal responsibility angle. What you write is on you.

I apologize, maybe you werent doing that. Its just you both sides an issue 90% of the times Republicans shit the bed on something so you can understand my confusion.

[DMC]

I apologize, maybe you werent doing that. Its just you both sides an issue 90% of the times Republicans shit the bed on something so you can understand my confusion.

It's all good

[Winehole23]

It's all goodcause he gotcha