Louisville’s Courier-Journal Gets Smacked Around For Piece About United Victim’s Past
There is a lot of anger being directed at the Louisville Courier-Journal for a piece about the past of the man dragged from a United flight Sunday.
The C-J reported that the paying passenger who was removed and bloodied by airline police is David Dao a doctor who was convicted of multiple felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud or deceit in November of 2004.
They tweeted out their story…
#BREAKING David Dao, the Elizabethtown doctor yanked from the United flight, has a troubled past in Kentucky https://t.co/pzkLLonJLG pic.twitter.com/FuZYCaLOEl
— Courier-Journal.com (@courierjournal) April 11, 2017
…only to find that not many people felt that the doctor’s old conviction had much to do with his getting beaten up for not wanting to give his seat to a United employee.
@JoelNihlean @courierjournal Hey, those #clicks aren’t going to whore themselves…#Media has to /work/ for that all-important #Twitter #engagement stat.!
— Joe Papp (@joepabike) April 11, 2017
imagine your local paper airing your most embarrassing secrets because a multibillion dollar corporation kicked the shit out of you pic.twitter.com/t6qaYurMIW
— josh terry (@JoshhTerry) April 11, 2017
you know who also has a troubled past? the chicago police department https://t.co/1q71lNGHc1
— Paul Blest (@pblest) April 11, 2017
Private citizen assaulted, humiliated by major company. Dirt on private citizen is dug up, and we have the “actually he was bad” news cycle. pic.twitter.com/aOn3UpHE42
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 11, 2017
“A doctor with a troubled past in Kentucky”? You could say the same of Rand Paul. How is this relevant? It’s Opposition Research by @united https://t.co/NIpJ7AZGkg
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal Main duties of journalists:
1. Understand legal/political/social framework of location
2. Report well-sourced, useful, contextualized facts— Racheline Maltese (@racheline_m) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal (wherein once found guilty of a crime and punished for it, that matter is closed – at least in theory).
— Racheline Maltese (@racheline_m) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal Additionally it terrorizes victims of crimes. Legit, are you going to share the sexual history of rape victims next?
— Racheline Maltese (@racheline_m) April 11, 2017
Wow, a troubled past? Beating the shit out of him to make sure some United employees didn’t have to rent a car or whatever was good, now https://t.co/tUZkSA3ddy
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) April 11, 2017
@anamariecox @paperghost Didn’t take long for a hit-piece to come out against the victim of authoritarian brutality.
— TLozinski (@TLMultimedia) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal Awful headline. You want to be dragged like @united dragged the man whose name you’re trashing? Interesting.
— STFU, Parents (@STFUParents) April 11, 2017
It doesn’t matter who the fuck he is – United took his money, let him board, and beat the shit out of him for it. https://t.co/SASfCGEiqE
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) April 11, 2017
Cool. My grandmother shoplifted when she was 20, maybe the Greyhound bus security team can throw her down a flight of stairs. https://t.co/lkjj53oHAG
— Nick Amadeus (@NickAmadeus) April 11, 2017
Who gives the slightest shit? Why are unrelated past facts about this private citizen’s life now newsworthy for digging up and publishing? https://t.co/0lEYvGfYaa
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal pic.twitter.com/lxy8uz93vv
— Stacey Gotsulias (@StaceGots) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal pic.twitter.com/shjgNKH9Nk
— ryan (@ryanhemsworth) April 11, 2017
70+ million Americans have a criminal record, in part due to overzealous policing like this. No excuse for corporate thuggery. https://t.co/NhF4wvrIYn
— ᴅᴇʀᴇᴋ ᴍᴇᴀᴅ (@derektmead) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal it doesn’t matter if this is true or not, it still has no bearing whatsover on the horrifying way @United treated him.
— Elie Fares. (@eliefares) April 11, 2017
Ok next let’s do literally everyone else involved in this incident. Do better, @morganwatkins26. https://t.co/vGGRMxv1BJ
— Arielle Castillo (@ariellec) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal you should delete this. What a craven, shitty thing to publish.
— Bennett (@bfod) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal courier journal retire bitch
— josh terry (@JoshhTerry) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal Shame on your shitty newspaper.
— Noah Kalina (@noahkalina) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal Would you like a pat on the back for dredging this up? I don’t see how this is relevant to the case.
— BROAZAGGAZA™✨ (@broazay) April 11, 2017
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@courierjournal So not being a perfect human being forfeits your right to be treated with dignity. Ok.
— Angel Jimenez (@angeljimenez) April 11, 2017
@BobHagh @courierjournal Tweet ahould have started with “GET READY TO PUKE”
— We Are The Answer (@clear_intention) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal don’t write this
— Patrick Hosken (@patrickhosken) April 11, 2017
@courierjournal breaking: i don’t care if he pissed in a jar and rolled it down a hill, you don’t get dragged off a plane like that.
— Chris Boyd?? (@paperghost) April 11, 2017
And the author of this irrelevant hit piece? And the editor? What do we know about their pasts? https://t.co/o9yyZTR56Y
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) April 11, 2017
BREAKING: The C-J probably didn’t see this coming when they pumped this out.
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