SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts newspaper reporter has resigned after falsely suggesting the perpetrator of the deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper was wearing a President Donald Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” hat.
The Republican newspaper in Springfield reports Conor Berry has apologized for tarnishing the “good work of fair-minded journalists everywhere” in his Friday resignation letter.
Berry tweeted an image of the familiar red hat and suggested 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos had dropped a similar one on The Capital Gazette’s newsroom floor before opening fire and killing five people Thursday. The tweet has since been taken down.
The Republican’s executive editor Wayne Phaneuf says journalists must be “more vigilant than ever” in their efforts to be fair and accurate. Trump frequently criticizes reporters as peddlers of “fake news.”
Stupid.
There is enough evidence that Trump’s assault on the press was the final straw telling this wacko to proceed.
Why make shit up?
What in hell was Berry ‘thinking’? ‘You got complaints about Fake News? I’ll give you some real Fake News!’
Who the hell did Berry think he was – a privileged liar like Trump?
And apparently from a Republican paper to boot.
WTF?
And now Berry’s idiocy will be used to refute any hint that the Orange Menace ever uttered a syllable suggesting violence against journalists.
Thanks, moron.
I’m a scientist and I know and work with a lot of folks who call themselves scientists. 90% of them really are. They are fastidiously scrupulous about bias and work to block or counterbalance any subjective feelings they have about the results of their work. But that 10%? Hoo, boy, do they muck up the field with all their crap, their ax-grinding pseudostudies to promote their favorite hypotheses, their dishonest reporting of methods and framing of results, and their playing of popular press reporters who don’t know their game.
The same is true with the press. Some idiot eager to get a “scoop” goes to press with a rumor they think is titillating without ever checking on its veracity, and the whole profession looks bad. Worse, the Trumpies now have a scalp they can wave around as they declare all non-right-wing media to be full of lies. Makes me want to kick some ass.
Is it just me or is there a large liquid dose of self- righteoussness in this AP article?