April 18, 2024

AndronETalksNews

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Emails between New York Times editors reveal they ignored fact checkers and ‘sneaked in link’ between Sarah Palin and shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords in editorial

Daily Mail UK

Damning internal emails sent by members of the New York Times editorial board were made public today during the libel trial brought by Sarah Palin against the newspaper.

The emails were introduced by Palin’s lawyer Shane Vogt as he questioned Elizabeth Williamson, a journalist with the editorial section of the Times who wrote the first draft of the article.

In a message shown to the jury, Jesse Wegman, a member of the NYT editorial board, wrote that he worried the opinion piece that Palin sued over looked like they were trying to ‘sneak in’ a link between her and the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords.

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