NY Post Reporter Quits: I Was 'Ordered' to Write False Story About Kamala Harris

[JoeOtterbein]

Source: Daily Beast

The New York Post reporter whose byline was attached to a false story that kicked off a days-long right-wing media outrage cycle has quit.

“Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post,” reporter Laura Italiano posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. “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. It’s been a privilege to cover the City of New York for its liveliest, wittiest tabloid—a paper filled with reporters and editors I admire deeply and hold as friends. I’m sad to leave.”

Neither the New York tabloid nor Italiano immediately responded to The Daily Beast’s requests for comment.

Last week, the Post published a story claiming federal officials were distributing Vice President Kamala Harris’ book Superheroes Are Everywhere “in welcome kits” to migrant children held in a temporary immigration facility at the Long Beach convention center in Southern California.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-post-reporter-quits-says-she-was-forced-to-write-false-kamala-story?ref=home

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. There's no limit to the depths of depravity the reich-wing media will sink in their quest to

curate a total bullshit fantasy world for their denizens to wallow in.

Good on this writer for quitting over this.

Would've been better to quit BEFORE, but they'd have probably just made someone else put their name to it.

[regnaD kciN]

2. "...whose byline was attached to a false story..."

Nice euphemism for “wrote a bunch of lies.”

[Permanut]

3. Alternative facts.

No need to match up with any actual events.

[calimary]

4. Criminy!

How far down the rabbit hole do these scheming mercenary assholes want to sink?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Insane! How can there be so many of these people?

Maybe it seems there are so many because the truly good folks are keeping things in motion, getting things done, not trying to make trouble for others, so our attention isn't really drawn to how many sane, tuned-in conscientious people there are in our country.

Yeah, that must be it!

Thank you for the information. So glad to see it here.

[Mr. Sparkle]

6. My question is who made her write it and how many other false stories have they deliberately written

as an aside , Rupert Murdoch should not be allowed to own News companies, his is too dishonest.

[Best_man23]

7. If this writer wants any career in writing or journalism going forward beyond creating diner menus

She needs to come clean with names and the entire backstory that led up to the publication of this article. If she does so on major news outlets (60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC) that will have more of an impact.

[Ace Rothstein]

8. Probably should have quit BEFORE writing it if you wanted to make a point.

She only quit because of the uproar about the false story.

[ibegurpard]

9. So why not quit and NOT write the story?

And then go on the same media tour you're on now telling people what they tried to make you do and why you quit?

[Grins]

10. The same Post that did the hit on Hunter Biden...

...whose reporters refused to have their names on the byline because it was a flagrant set-up?

I’m seeing a pattern here....

[tonekat]

11. NY Post is best used as Fishwrap N/T