It's a rather bizarre story. A reporter for NewsWeek who wrote an article lambasting President Trump for spending the holiday "Playing golf" and "tweeting" got fired by the magazine. Trump, you see, was actually in Afghanistan visiting the troops at the Bagram base in that country. There was a cover story that Trump had gone to his Florida golf retreat which was put out to keep the trip to the war zone a secret. The NewsWeek reporter fell for the cover story and then wrote a snarky column attacking Trump for enjoying the holiday just like millions of other Americans.
When news of the President's visit to Afghanistan and the troops was released; NewsWeek changed its story. It didn't issue a correction or a retraction, but it did change the headline to indicate that Trump spent Thanksgiving tweeting and playing golf and visiting the troops. The first two items were still wrong, but the NewsWeek editors kept them there anyway.
The NewsWeek story was mocked in a tweet by the President's son and the President retweeted it. NewsWeek apparently felt that it had to do something, so it fired the reporter. Pretty strange. Sure the reporter wrote a nasty anti-Trump story. That's nothing unusual for NewsWeek. Something like 99% of the time, that magazine is anti-Trump. It was the editors who should have taken down the bogus story and put up an accurate one. Why weren't they fired?
When news of the President's visit to Afghanistan and the troops was released; NewsWeek changed its story. It didn't issue a correction or a retraction, but it did change the headline to indicate that Trump spent Thanksgiving tweeting and playing golf and visiting the troops. The first two items were still wrong, but the NewsWeek editors kept them there anyway.
The NewsWeek story was mocked in a tweet by the President's son and the President retweeted it. NewsWeek apparently felt that it had to do something, so it fired the reporter. Pretty strange. Sure the reporter wrote a nasty anti-Trump story. That's nothing unusual for NewsWeek. Something like 99% of the time, that magazine is anti-Trump. It was the editors who should have taken down the bogus story and put up an accurate one. Why weren't they fired?
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