The Murdoch family’s rancid New York Post, in its early coverage of the Trump rally shooting, claimed the shooter was Chinese, citing unnamed “sources”. As we know, the shooter was a white man from Pennsylvania.
Here’s an Internet Archive link to what the Post published. Screenshot:
The story was fixed — but without, as far as I can see, any correction much less the apology that should have accompanied the revised piece.
It’s useful to keep in mind that the Murdoch empire routinely injects poison into our civic bloodstream, for power and money. It is an evil company, and no journalist with a sense of honor should work for them.
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The fact that we know more about Biden’s COVID diagnosis than we do about the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate is such a damning indictment of the current state of journalism I’m not sure how they can possibly begin to regain the public trust. Worse, I doubt they have any interest in trying.
— Mary L. Trump, The Good in Us 7/19/2024
Donald is Mary’s uncle, so she could be accused of bias, but not in the way you might expect – she was screwed out of her inheritance by Donald and one of his sisters.She’s a PhD in psychology, and has Donald absolutely nailed. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “If what she writes isn’t journalism, it should be.”