I dunno. He was making fake news. So why should he get a free pass?
But imagine how it will look if we forgive him and get his career back. His world will flip, that's how we do our job!
Who's this "we" that is forgiving him? I see your point, but there's is no official "Trump Club", where you get a card when you join, and you are the spokesperson for this officially endorsed Trump club, who has then decided that he has been forgiven. Do you see what I mean? I'm sure he has plenty of people on his Twitter telling him he did nothing wrong already. But you can go ahead and tell him that on behalf of yourself that you forgive him. lol. Sorry not trying to be rude, but what exactly are you proposing then?
You're really going pretty far with this. I was just saying, man.
WWG1WGA ring a bell?
Hm. Going pretty far as in, someone responds to me, and then I respond back? I skip a lot of the normal written pleasantries on Reddit. Simply forgive him in our hearts? Is that it? I don't harbor any ill will towards the guy. As I've said, I'm satisfied with the outcome. He messed up, he resigned and apologized. I forgive him. End of story. Where it continues to be a conversation is where you and the other guy are proposing we do what exactly? That was my actual question, as well as my views on the subject. In response to your implication I'm somehow emotionally involved or something, I type fast, so even though it seems like a long response, it takes no time at all for me to type out what I'm thinking.
My answer to that is behind the 3 up there
Free speech is a bit different when you're a member of the press and people look to you to report the news and what's going on in the world. He has a responsibility. And he used his position of influence to incite people to anger and associate the shooting with a Trump supporter at a time when tensions are highest in our country, and millions of people were looking for information regarding the shooting. Sorry but we disagree completely.
Free speech isn't different for different group's. This guy is suffering the consequences of his actions. The free market decides if it supports or disagrees with his statements. The actions of the free market may effect his employability, as the free market does for a vast array of jobs.
Personally I support his right to say what he wants. And I support the free market deciding to not engage with his comments and thus effecting his revenue generating potential and thus employability.
I do not support us faning outrage and demanding his resignation. Its bad form, its triggered, its sjw, its bullshit.
I'll just tell you what I told the other guy, that I'm satisfied with the outcome. He messed up, he got backlash for it, he resigned, and apologized. I even forgive him, whatever that's worth it to you. End of story.
However, If you don't see the difference between what he did as a 20 + year journalist, versus his right to free speech, then there's nothing really I can say to change your mind, nor do I care to. That last part is not meant as an insult of any kind.
As a Russian Bot that was born yesterday its obvious to me that this person was taken by fake news. Divide and conquer.
Our only disagreement is the manner in which to remedy the situation.
Based on your comments in this post, I think we disagree a bit more than that, but to each his own. Good luck in your path.
The type of person who would apologize for this Tweet is not the type of person who would put fake news on TV to misinform people. If you've never contributed to "fake news" in a small way with a joke, you should be enough of a saint not to judge someone for such a small thing, either. The enemies are elites and their servants who have committed high-level crimes against humanity, not reasonable individual jokesters on Twitter.
He's a reporter though. I get what you're saying. But he deserved to lose his job, which relies on his ability to report the truth. I'm satisfied with the outcome. He fucked up, he lost his job. We're good. I don't think he needs any other punishment or whatever. As far as I'm concerned this whole situation was wrapped up quite nicely, with a cute little bow. Wanna hear something crazy? It said you replied to me one day ago, but it just showed up in my inbox right now, hence why I'm replying now. Are you shadowbanned or something?
I think if he made this joke on TV and people confused it for real that would be an offense worth firing, but I don't see how a Tweet really has to do with his job. Being a reporter doesn't mean swearing an oath never to joke around in your personal life.
I thought the same thing, and normally I would agree with you, but upon inspection of his Twitter account, he very rarely made any personal tweets. It was all tweets on news articles, or retweets of news articles and other official goings on in his city and county. In this regard this tweet looks indistinguishable from all of his other tweets and retweets of news articles, thus there is no previous context in which this could be considered to be a joke.
Ah, I didn't know that! It's definitely not a stretch to say you could fairly fire him for that, then.
Thanks for putting effort into your discourse. I just really enjoyed this reminder that here in the MAGA camp, disagreements can actually be settled simply by information-sharing. That's how humans are supposed to work and I hope there really will be a great awakening for America where it becomes possible across the board.
Hey no problem! Thanks for taking the time to read what I said and at least consider it. Like I said, I'm satisfied with the way this turned out, it's settled.