Meet Richard “Bigo” Barnett, who stood outside the Capitol, his shirt open and his chest bared to the cold, loudly bragging about how he had broken into the speaker’s office.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/richard-barnett-pelosi.html …
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Replying to @AllMattNYT @FutureBoy
"Meet Richard “Bigo” Barnett, who stood outside the Capitol, his shirt open and his chest bared to the cold, loudly bragging about how he had broken into the speaker’s office." Maybe more than a flat, amoral description was needed, idk...
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Replying to @GangofH @FutureBoy
Why not let someone reveal themselves in their own words? You don't need to offer much judgement when your subject is bragging about committing a federal crime. We're journalists, not polemicists.
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If it were, a brown muslim, or even a WHITE muslim invading the US Capitol, would you interview him and give him a platform on the front page ?? - Asking, as an angry white muslim.
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Yes. Absolutely. You seem to view the story as some kind of positive for Mr. Barnett. We wrote it because he confessed, on the record, to looting the speaker’s office. This not a good thing for Mr. Barnett, I’d imagine.
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If you can’t see that your writing about him was sympathetic – pretty much visible in every paragraph – and the tone completely out of touch with the gravity of the situation, maybe you should give back that Pulitzer Prize. Nice cowardly “we wrote,” too. *You* wrote this.
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