How An Activist Journalist Smeared a Wounded Marine Veteran
Tim Pool Daily Show
English - June 19, 2018 04:00 - 10 minutes - ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsPolitics News tim pool timcast free speech news culture war politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
An Activist Journalist with the New Yorker falsely accused a wounded marine veteran of having an iron cross tattoo. This led to a wave of attacks on social media and ultimately ICE, where the man now works, had to issue a statement demanding an apology.The woman, Talia Lavin, made her twitter private following the incident and the New Yorker apologized for the error.This woman is employed as a FACT CHECKER at the New Yorker and she couldn't even fact check the tweet before sending it out and causing real harm to an innocent man.SUPPORT JOURNALISM. Become a patron athttp://www.patreon.com/TimcastSupport the show (http://timcast.com/donate)
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An Activist Journalist with the New Yorker falsely accused a wounded marine veteran of having an iron cross tattoo. This led to a wave of attacks on social media and ultimately ICE, where the man now works, had to issue a statement demanding an apology.
The woman, Talia Lavin, made her twitter private following the incident and the New Yorker apologized for the error.
This woman is employed as a FACT CHECKER at the New Yorker and she couldn't even fact check the tweet before sending it out and causing real harm to an innocent man.
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