In case you missed it yesterday, the Wall Street Journal offered up a hell of a take on the deadly Jersey City shooting:
Wait, what’s this? Where’d it go?
Flushed down the memory hole, of course. Unfortunately for the Wall Street Journal, it didn’t go down all the way:
Saved it for you guys pic.twitter.com/4Fk3He0L3l
— AJ (@AK_ND9) December 12, 2019
Holy hell.
It might have had an effect on the victims' community, too. https://t.co/MCyGsjuPZ7
— Elder Of Ziyon ҉ (@elderofziyon) December 12, 2019
What kind of creative process did you go through on your way to settling on this tweet https://t.co/fo65OLTXYC
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 12, 2019
Wait until you read the article ?
— Stat and Melo (@StatandMelo1) December 12, 2019
Oh no, it’s not just the tweet?
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 12, 2019
Oh but it gets so much worse pic.twitter.com/Ld1eflk9hU
— Leib (@YehudahRodman) December 12, 2019
I wouldn’t have included these parts, but that’s just me. Life is complicated, yes- But there’s a time to be respectful the victims of a hate filled attack, and time to solve structural problems. pic.twitter.com/lul6hGS8mM
— Virginia Readjuster (@VAReadjuster89) December 12, 2019
Yowsa.
— lrgeller (@lrgeller) December 12, 2019
@WSJ Are you kidding me?
— coop (@rumrunnercoop) December 12, 2019
WTF
— FJnyc (@FJnyc) December 12, 2019
This is grotesque.
— (((Ami Schreiber))) (@shribr) December 12, 2019
good to know that the wsj is also antisemitic
— yossi ojalvo (@yossi_oj) December 12, 2019
Recommended
I would expect this kind of BS from the NYT
— Mary Vanek (@mevanek007) December 12, 2019
The tone of this tweet is disturbing. Someone at the WSJ has explaining to do.
— Paul Ladd (@PaulLadd1) December 12, 2019
Was the Wall Street Journal taking cues from the people featured here?
SHOCKING VIDEO: As Jewish bodies were still laying in cold blood after being murdered by terrorists in Jersey City, a rep of @AmericansAA captured spontaneous antisemitic tirades blaming Jews for their own murder & ppl cheering it on!
Antisemitism, a bigger problem than appears. pic.twitter.com/WHmLtxANAE
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) December 11, 2019
We’d ask what the WSJ was thinking, but we’re not sure we want to know the answer.
They've deleted the tweet ?
— The Progressive Conservative (@GiorgioCritics) December 12, 2019
Eventually. And replaced it with a less inflammatory one:
An attack that left six people dead, including the two suspected shooters, has shaken a neighborhood of Jews and African-Americans. An earlier tweet, which has been deleted, insensitively described the situation. https://t.co/MtRHqXH8rJ
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 12, 2019
“Insensitively described.” Too bad they didn’t tweet an explanation for their horrifically awful initial tweet.
The @WSJ removed the tweet and modified the problematic subhead that seemed say blacks were the real victims of the shooting pic.twitter.com/KuQP45SoiN
— Elder Of Ziyon ҉ (@elderofziyon) December 12, 2019
Or fix the garbage parts of their article:
And yet the tweet you deleted didn’t prompt you to alter the actual text of the article. Hmm ?
Appalling. pic.twitter.com/W4U5uNm24W
— Dani Klein ?? Yeah That's Kosher (@YeahThatsKosher) December 12, 2019
You mean you insensitively described the situation like the article STILL DOES? pic.twitter.com/1jIjjkLoCm
— Restive Rabble (@RestiveRabble) December 12, 2019
So, basically, they’re not all that sorry.
Yeah, it was more than "insensitive". pic.twitter.com/coretuRKV3
— Hacker Holdings LLC ? (@HoldMyGlencairn) December 12, 2019
If you changed the text of the story, which still contains an insensitive & bigoted statement, it would be a full apology.
Yes, there have been demographic changes throughout the region. To seemingly justify violence because of it, is more than just insensitive, its outrageous.
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) December 12, 2019
So sorry you guys got caught being utterly terrible again. I feel for yah. pic.twitter.com/McXqHST3e4
— Christmas TrEeyore (@someguymusing) December 12, 2019
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