Ah, the New York Daily News’ “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment, and all to advance a ghoulish gun-grabbing agenda.
If FBI is right, the New York Daily News has some serious egg on their face this morning pic.twitter.com/5kPZyYx4Rm
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 17, 2013
Today’s front page announced “Same Gun, Different Slay” (classy) and blared “Maniac used ‘Newtown’ weapon” and “AR-15 made for murder.” But as Twitchy reported, the FBI says Navy Yard shooting suspect Aaron Alexis used two handguns and a shotgun, not an AR-15 rifle.
Inside the paper is Mike Lupica’s column, “AR-15 is the rifle for the ‘sport’ of hunting humans.”
https://twitter.com/StPaulBrandon/status/380008300554645504
And here’s the completely inaccurate caption of the first photo in Lupica’s imbecilic column:
Before Aaron Alexis took an AR-15 rifle into the Washington Navy Yard on Monday and shot 12 dead before turning the gun on himself …
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/379974503214120960
NY Daily News has AR Derangement Syndrome ARDS http://t.co/mve3dC4eaU
— Ace (@Bearclaw24) September 17, 2013
https://twitter.com/WorldOfStu/status/379994148490969088
I think Mike Lupica needs to stick to being a mediocre sports journalist http://t.co/zLReBZThf6
— 0 (@nscott08) September 17, 2013
How long will it take Mike Lupica to eat/retract this column? In Full? AR-15 is rifle for 'sport' of hunting humans http://t.co/hjd6iF86kZ
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) September 17, 2013
Mike Lupica is a great fiction writer. The problem is he tries to pass it off as journalism. http://t.co/6WAVklhEvd
— Adam Zielonka (@Adam_Zielonka) September 17, 2013
Weird. This Mike Lupica piece (which is now nearly 100% incorrect) is still there. http://t.co/VgstPYNRPC
— RBe (@RBPundit) September 17, 2013
Some people called out Daily News opinion editor Josh Greenman.
This is weird. @JoshGreenman is usually quick to snark when someone does something dumb. But not a peep about his paper's front page.
— RBe (@RBPundit) September 17, 2013
Greenman revealed that Lupica’s opinion pieces fall “on the news side.”
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/379977195944280064
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/379977690582745089
@joshgreenman Holy shit. That article was on the NEWS side?
— RBe (@RBPundit) September 17, 2013
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/379978307996889089
It’s been hours since the news broke that Alexis didn’t use an AR-15 in his deadly rampage. But like Piers Morgan, the Daily News hasn’t gotten around to issuing a real correction or retraction for its monumental fail. The paper did finally add this finger-pointing paragraph to the online version of Lupica’s column:
The FBI’s assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office said Tuesday that gunman Aaron Alexis acted alone in the Navy Yard shooting that killed 12 people and added “we do not have any information” that an AR-15 was used. Mike Lupica’s column was written Monday when The Daily News and The Associated Press among many others reported, using reputable law enforcement sources, that the shooter Alexis had used three weapons including an AR-15.
The inaccurate text of the column remains the same, including “Aaron Alexis took an AR-15 rifle into the Washington Navy Yard on Monday and shot 12 dead.”
Ladies and gentlemen: That’s “real” journalism.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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