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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Denver Post Criticized For Removing 'Socialist' Description Of Colorado
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December 16, 2013, 1:20 PM EST4743
The Denver Post is facing criticism from conservatives after updating a
story that originally labeled the Colorado high school gunman a "Socialist."
In a story first posted late Friday, the newspaper cited a student at
Arapahoe High School who described the ideology of Karl Pierson, the 18-year
-old who shot two students before turning the gun on himself.
"Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with the gunman, described him as
a very opinionated Socialist," the story originally read.
After an update, the "Socialist" label was axed.
"Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with Pierson, described him as
very opinionated," reads the updated copy.
The change was first spotted by the website BearingArms.com, which asserted
that the "Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984 appears to be alive and well
and running the Denver Post."
Newsbusters also decried the update as Orwellian, while right-wing pundit
Laura Ingraham took to Twitter to call the flap an "OUTRAGE."
Lee Ann Colacioppo, an editor at the Post, defended the update with a pair
of tweets.
"We decided not to have another student apply a label to the shooter -- a
label the student likely didn't even understand ..," she wrote, adding in a
subsequent tweet that the newspaper opted "instead chose to use more
concrete descriptions such as 'he belittled Republicans.'"
Colacioppo did not respond to TPM's request for comment.
The article still touches heavily on Pierson's worldview. It quotes past
Facebook posts in which he criticized Republicans and economist Adam Smith,
while describing himself as a "Keynesian." A classmate is quoted by the Post
as saying Pierson "had very strong beliefs about gun laws and stuff."
But the Post did not include any political labels ascribed to Pierson by his
classmates. Two students who knew Pierson told the Post that the gunman's
views were "outside the mainstream," but they did not go into detail.
A CNN profile, on the other hand, quoted an Arapahoe student who said
Pierson was a "self-proclaimed communist." | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 3 如果是Tea party的。如果是共和党的。吼吼吼，看左煤不把文章做完这个世纪。
【在 j*****v 的大作中提到】
: 如果是NRA的，左派媒体又要添油加醋了
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