NY Post Reporter Resigns, Says She Was 'Ordered to Write' False Kamala Harris Story

[diehardblue]

The Post's Laura Italiano says the article about Harris' book was her "breaking point"
A New York Post reporter who wrote a since-retracted article about migrant children getting a copy of Vice President Kamala Harris' book as part of "welcome kits" said she resigned on Tuesday after she was "ordered to write" the story.

"Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post," reporter Laura Italiano tweeted. "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."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ny-post-reporter-resigns-says-she-was-ordered-to-write-false-kamala-harris-story/ar-BB1g7ouw?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

[lamp_shade]

1. Surely she's tell us who ordered her to write it.

[Dorian Gray]

2. She said her editors

Editor in Chief of the print edition is Stephen Lynch.

[lamp_shade]

3. Thanks.

[underpants]

4. Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story was "written" by a first time "writer"

She’d never had anything published in the Post or anywhere else.

[lamp_shade]

5. Aha! Thanks.

[Botany]

6. The NY Post is a Rupert Murdorch owned paper

'nuff said.

[dsc]

7. This certainly should qualify as malice

and thus open them up to be sued despite the obvious public figure status of VP Harris.

[Boomerproud]

8. They put a gun to your head huh sweetie.

So sad. You were in line to become the next Cindy Adam's. We all know what the Post is about.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. No one forced you liar they gave you a choice and you volunteered

Now damage done you're useless

[The Wizard]

10. From Othello

Iago:
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
(OTHELLO ACT 3, SCENE 3, 155–161)

[The Unmitigated Gall]

11. Fuck you, Rupert.

[spanone]

12. Imagine that, a rupert murdoch 'news'paper selling lies.....

[Carlitos Brigante]

13. Had this happened at a, say reputable publication. The Australian Crypt Keeper's press

would be all over this 24/7 until they are made to apologize and fire half their staff. That's the difference as to how they operate and influence the rubes......

[pressbox69]

14. They need to be squashed

like the cockroaches they are.

[Lancero]

15. She wasn't forced to write it, she chose to write it.

She could have resigned when ordered to write what she knew to be a complete load of shit. She made the choice not to. And with the backlash from it, she's trying to cover her ass rather than acknowledge fault.

Hell, she made the choice to work for a craploid in the first place.

[cab67]

16. I'd give her some latitude if she was new to the job.

I've seen newly-hired faculty feel pressure to do things a certain way to appease someone higher up in the food chain. They're worried about losing their positions, and rarely even speak with HR - even in cases where they clearly should. That doesn't excuse the behavior, but it helps me understand it.

But that's not the case here. She worked for the Post for a long time, and has worked for other media outlets. She should have know professional right from wrong by that point.