based on a Reuters photo showing a single copy of the book propped against a backpack on a table at the Long Beach, California, migrant shelter. OK... so where DID it come from?
Posted on 04/27/2021 6:16:00 PM PDT by Coronal
A New York Post reporter who authored a story falsely claiming that migrant children were being given copies of Vice President Kamala Harris' children's book announced on Tuesday that she'd been "ordered" to write the "incorrect" story and resigned from the paper.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Post temporarily deleted Italiano's two stories on the topic and republished altered versions hours later with editor's notes.
"An announcement: Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post," Laura Italiano tweeted on Tuesday evening. "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."
Italiano's cover story last Friday titled, "Kam On In: Solo kids at border welcomed with copy of veep's book," falsely reported that migrant children were provided with "welcome kits" that included Harris' 2019 book. The story was void of evidence supporting that claim, which appeared entirely based on a Reuters photo showing a single copy of the book propped against a backpack on a table at the Long Beach, California, migrant shelter.
The story was debunked by other news outlets after it was heavily promoted in the right-wing media and brought up in a White House press briefing.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
If it was all fake... including the photo.
Why did the White House DEFEND it?
“Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post,” Laura Italiano tweeted on Tuesday evening. “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.”
Yes, perhaps you should have resigned BEFORE the story was published as that would leave you with a semblance of credibility.
She quits because of her morals, stating, she was forced to write incorrect story by leftist editors, because of false right wing media reporting....?
Oh Lord, let me get my dancing shoes, this goin be good!
As Bongino says everyday on his show, it must be strange to be a leftist and wake up every morning look in the mirror and just lie to yourself every single day that you are a good person, when everything you do and say is just lies, damn lies, and statistical lies...!
Who knows? Maybe it all goes back to the old adage, why tell the truth, when a lie will do.
The Post is owned by Murdoch’s News Corp, hardly a left wing media outlet.
WELL BYE head on over to the WA Post you’ll fit right in!!!
If reporters for leftie papers did that, there’d be none left.
Is it in New York?
The radical left wing Business Insider writes nothing but DEM Operative LIES .
This story is Leftist Dem party LIE .
The radical left wing Business Insider writes nothing but DEM Operative LIES .
This story is Leftist Dem party LIE .
So it's true.
If the story is completely fake, why did immigration officials say that the books and the gift bags were donated by a ‘community group”? Did they donate non-existent books and gift bags?
based on a Reuters photo showing a single copy of the book propped against a backpack on a table at the Long Beach, California, migrant shelter. OK... so where DID it come from?
“OK... so where DID it come from?”
It was a donation. You know, the way you get rid of crappy stuff you get stuck with.
The Post has got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Yes, I saw the photo and the book was laid out in display form, along with a new backpack and several other items on top of a cot. An employee of the shelter did not deny that the book was part of a gift package to immigrant children that was donated by “the local community.”
follow the -money- BOOK!
Look up Lachlan and James Murdoch. Not exactly like Rupert
Leftist editors at the NY Post?
My point was that the book really was there, and that the shelter employee seemed to confirm that these gift packs - including that same book - were indeed being given out to migrant children on a routine basis. I was trying to understand just what it was about the story that Business Insider was claiming had been “debunked.” BI seemed to be suggesting that the whole thing was a hoax.
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