Posted on 04/28/2021 12:05:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
A spokesperson for the city of Long Beach told The Washington Post that the copy of Harris' book was donated to the shelter by a community member as part of a city-wide book and toy drive to support young migrants. The Washington Post fact-checker gave Italiano's reporting four "Pinocchios."
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SO how did that book get there?
RE: SO how did that book get there?
The answer is in the article:
“the copy of Harris’ book was donated to the shelter by a community member as part of a city-wide book and toy drive to support young migrants.”
“...the copy of Harris’ book was donated to the shelter by a community member as part of a city-wide book and toy drive to support young migrants.”
There should be no such ‘Welcoming Books’ in the first place, but they didn’t even bother to print a version in
Spanish. Well, they are available as back up in case the
facilities run low on toilet paper.
Stupid. No excuse.
Exactly I do not care if they were donated. Are they being supplied or did they just put a single copy as photo op for KH? Either way it stinks. I award the Washington Post fact checkers 8 pinochios.
Resigned or fired?
Is it in Spanish?
This looks more like sloppy reporting and source research than the outright lying that CNN/CBS/NBC/ABC/NYTIMES/WASHPOST does.
Once the reporter got called out on her laziness, she tried to throw it on the editor — who would ask properly for such a story to be written if correctly sourced.
Someone thought this was a good idea, or the photo op picture would not exist.
a few more someones also thought so, but unfortunately it did not go over well. The fall person was selected and probably paid well to be such. They likely already have a job elsewhere and when they start in a month everything will be all good.
Bad idea to lie. Good riddance!
Hopefully her editor, manager, and anyone else involved in this is also fired.
All I found was this:
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 donated to a child.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/psaki-has-no-answers-about-harris-book-being-given-to-child-migrants/
Not good enough. Leave the lying to the left.
Obvious false flag story. Conservative news has to be smarter than to fall for this crap. There’s enough real concern to focus on.
Yes, but I bet that Kamala Harris got her royalties...
Royalties...
Well at least somebody go screwed on this deal.
Buying lots of “junk” books and throwing them in the garbage is a very expensive, but absolutely legal form of money laundering. Not nearly as effective as “honorariums” for speeches, though.
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