Posted on 04/19/2020 5:52:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The New York Times suggested Saturday that statements by Sean Hannity of Fox News helped encourage a Brooklyn bar owner to take a cruise regardless of the risk of coronavirus, which killed him.
The headline of the article, as it appeared in the Sunday print edition, was: “‘Fake News’ and a Possibly Ill-Fated Trip.” (The online headline: “A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus. Then He Took a Cruise.”)
The problem: the Times quoted a remark Hannity made eight days after the man left for the cruise.
Later, the Times inserted that information as a comment from Fox News, without drawing readers’ attention to the update, which undermined its accusation of Hannity’s indirect responsibility.
The original Times article, published April 18, told the story of Joe Joyce, late owner of the JJ Bubbles tavern in Brooklyn, who died April 9 of complications related to COVID-19.
The Times presented him as a Trump supporter and Fox News viewer, though his bar was an “incongruously progressive place.”
The Times then narrated the following timeline:
On March 1, Joe Joyce and his wife, Jane, set sail for Spain on a cruise, flying first to Florida. His adult children — Kevin, Eddie and Kristen Mider — suggested that the impending doom of the coronavirus made this a bad idea. Joe Joyce was 74, a nonsmoker, healthy; four years after he opened his bar he stopped drinking completely. He didn’t see the problem.
“He watched Fox, and believed it was under control,’’ Kristen told me.
Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didn’t like the way that the American people were getting scared “unnecessarily.’’ He saw it all, he said, “as like, let’s bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.”
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Btt
They’ll do whatever they think it takes.
The whole concept of FREEDOM truly eludes these folks.
And they should give back the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Walter Duranty’s complicity with Stalin in the murder of millions of Kulaks.
Sheesh. No surprise @ NYT faking it. But worst is this attitude that nobody is responsible for their own actions these days.
Sean should sue them for defamation.
March 9th, 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/
The NYT is simply an irrelevant, racist, anti-American rag.
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