Like shooting fish in a barrel - from Robert Stacey McCain:
‘A Team of Editors’
This is going to become the stuff of legend, so I wanted to take note of it: The New York Times decided to devote the entirety of its front page to a list of 1,000 names of COVID-19 victims. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and we are at or near the 100,000 mark in terms of nationwide death toll from the virus so . . . Well, there was some rationale for this, anyway, and the New York Times staff devoted hours to the project:
A bit more and then this:
Scarcely five minutes after their list was published, people on Twitter began pointing out an obvious error: Jordan Haynes, 27, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was the sixth name on the Times list, but he did not die of COVID-19. He was a homicide victim, whose body was found in a car in a wooded area near Interstate 380. Exactly how the “team of editors” made such a colossal blunder, we don’t know, but they’ve deleted Haynes’ name from the list and promised to publish a correction tomorrow.
Somehow, I am not surprised. Haynes' death helped push the narrative. They are not concerned about the facts, only the narrative. I wonder if they published any of the 8,000+ names of NY State citizens who actually did pass away from COVID while in a New York nursing home.
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