Posted on 08/21/2021 4:01:51 PM PDT by RandFan
The Associated Press is urging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to step in after it reported that his press secretary's conduct resulted in an AP reporter receiving threats and other abuse online, according to the AP.
AP CEO Daisy Veerasingham wrote to DeSantis on Friday asking him to take action against aide Christina Pushaw's "harassing behavior," the news organization reported.
Twitter recently suspended Pushaw's account for violating rules on "abusive behavior" due to her conduct toward reporter Brendan Farrington, the AP noted.
"You will ban the press secretary of a democratically-elected official while allowing the Taliban to live tweet their conquest of Afghanistan?” Pushaw said in response to the suspension, the AP reported.
Pushaw denied any wrongdoing toward Farrington despite retweeting his article with the caption "drag them" in a post that has since been deleted, according to the AP. In the story that Pushaw retweeted, Farrington noted that one of DeSantis's multimillion-dollar donors invests in a company making the coronavirus treatment drug Regeneron, which the governor has been touting around the state.
Farrington tweeted Wednesday that he had received online threats about the story, according to the AP.
"For your sake, I hope government doesn't threaten your safety. I'll be fine, I hope. Freedom. Just please don't kill me," Farrington wrote.
The reporter's Twitter account is now private.
Pushaw said the tweet was not meant to be a violent threat that resulted in people hurling abuse toward Farrington.
"As soon as Farrington told me he received threats, I tweeted that nobody should be threatening anyone, that is completely unacceptable," Pushaw told the AP. "I also urged him to report any threats to police."
AP's vice president and managing editor Brian Carovillano said Pushaw's tweets were especially over the line because she is a government official whose job centers around working with the press.
"There’s pushback, which we fully accept and is a regular facet of being a political reporter or any kind of reporter, and there’s harassment,” Carovillano told the AP. “This is not pushback, it’s harassment. It’s bullying. It’s calling out the trolls at somebody who is just doing his job and it’s putting him and his family at risk.”
give her an immediate raise.
Leftists are complete and total _ussies. They gleefully give it and encourage their fellow leftists to pile on but, if even a fraction of that comes to them they scream like little girls. Pathetic.
Dear AP, the logical solution it to reassign the “journalist”. First f all nobody likes a tattletale, and second the story was blown apart in minutes. If you don’t hire stupid people you encounter fewer problems.
“Dear AP,
Go pound sand.
Sincerely,
Ron DeSantis”
And, of course, The Hill completely omits what the tweet was actually about or said. Just the controversy around it.
Harassing behavior? Has the AP ever heard of Pelosi, or Waters, or Schiff or Nadler or...
News sources can urge, they can only report.
Unless? the news source is political opposition fraudulently fronting as a news organization.
Hmm. Seems I’ve stumbled across something I stumbled across 25 years ago.
Such the little trooper!
So brave, so brave!
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One guy who will never have to worry if he slips off the seat and falls onto his bicycle’s top tube.
Dear AP, if you can’t take it then don’t dish it.
The AP has seen nothing yet. Just wait until CW II concludes and the guillotine construction starts.
The media is vermin.
Frankly I don’t care what happens to members of the MSM any more.
Hanging is more American than the guillotine.
I actually worked with him many years ago. He was quite a douche.
That dude looks like he should be wearing a pu..y hat.
Harassing AP Nazis should be a national sport.
Screw the AP. They deserve whatever scorn people throw at them.
"We reported earlier on an Associated Press hit piece on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and how it fell apart after it had been pointed out that the piece’s central premise – that DeSantis was engaging in the equivalent of “pay to play” with his promotion of a Regeneron COVID-19 antibody treatment – was deeply flawed and likely intentionally misleading.As my RedState colleague Bonchie noted in his report, not only has the treatment – which has also been touted by the Biden administration – been shown to work in helping to prevent hospitalization for some COVID patients, but “the [DeSantis] donor is a hedge fund manager that manages almost $40 billion in assets. The company in question makes up a tiny fraction of the total investments to the point where it’s irrelevant. In fact, they aren’t even really investments.”
Understandably, one of the people pushing back hard on the false narrative being pushed by the Associated Press (and, of course, other “news” outlets now) is DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw, who has sent out several tweets on the matter after unsuccessfully trying to work behind the scenes with the reporter Brendan Farrington to get the headline changed.
From what I’ve read of Pushaw’s Twitter feed, she did not “threaten” Farrington’s safety in any way. She did tell him that she would go public with his inaccuracies if the headline issue wasn’t rectified. It wasn’t, so she proceeded accordingly." - Sister Toldjah, RedState
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