'GOOD GRIEF'! NYT put in a LOT of work to craft this PATHETIC framing of Mollie Tibbetts case [pics]

Just because this was inevitable doesn’t make it any less revolting.

Yesterday, authorities publicly identified the suspect in Mollie Tibbetts’ murder as 24-year-old illegal immigrant Christian Rivera. Here’s how the New York Times covered it:

“Trump Seizes
on Killing of Mollie Tibbetts”
— @NYTimeshttps://t.co/IDMkH90DEw

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) August 22, 2018

To be fair, a lot of work went into making that headline:

https://t.co/fpHhSj2vLb

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) August 22, 2018

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— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) August 22, 2018

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— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) August 22, 2018

Oh.

Oh come on. https://t.co/P2gYYRHrCS

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 22, 2018

Good grief…

— IGOToAllNations (@IGONations) August 22, 2018

They’re really not even trying to hide it anymore.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say the NY Times never used "Obama Seizes" in a headline about the POTUS pushing policy in the wake of a violent crime https://t.co/7fiDhmIvfX

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 22, 2018

(I'm lying, it wasn't a shot in the dark. I did a Nexis search.) pic.twitter.com/UAoNJqCWfa

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 22, 2018

Pathetic. But that’s the New York Times.

https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1032285648017911809

No other explanation. Seriously.

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) August 22, 2018

Think this is funny, New York Times?

I didn’t realize Americans being murdered in cold blood was a partisan issue. The @nytimes should be ashamed of itself.

— Will Finchman (@WillFinchman) August 22, 2018

They should be. But they ran out of shame a long time ago.

Surprised their headline wasn't "Trump Seizes on Some Girl in Iowa"

— American Girl (@DCBlossomz) August 22, 2018

To be fair, that’s kind of been done already.

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‘WTF is WRONG with you’? AP journo’s take on Mollie Tibbetts’ murder is absolutely ‘GHASTLY’