New York Times Angers Twitter With Story About Michigan State Shooting
The New York Times landed itself in hot water with a story about the shooting at Michigan State. A screenshot of a part of the story was shared on social media. The article is titled , “The mass shooting places Michigan…
The New York Times landed itself in hot water with a story about the shooting at Michigan State.
A screenshot of a part of the story was shared on social media.
The article is titled, “The mass shooting places Michigan State back in an uncomfortable national spotlight.”
The Times reported the shooting “put the school back in the national spotlight, years after a sex abuse scandal involving a prominent sports medicine doctor on its faculty became public.”
It continues, “The scandal stoked public anger over the administration’s handling of sexual assault and set off a series of leadership changes.”
The article then mentioned the university physician Larry Nassar being accused of assaulting “girls and young women under the guise of medical treatment.”
Twitter users were to quick to criticize the Times’ decision to publish the story.
One user replied, “Bruh y’all suck, this journalist and the person who green light it should be sacked.”
Writer Ty Schalter wrote, “The inexplicably tone-deaf article places back in an uncomfortable national spotlight.”
Another user argued, “Parachute Reporters need to buzz off.”
Reporter Sam Dodge added, “I try not to comment on the work of other journalists (we all make mistakes), but this is so unbelievably tone deaf that it needs to be called out.”