Breitbart: Newsweek has fired the journalist who was responsible for the false story that President Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving “tweeting” and “golfing,” when in fact the president was secretly traveling to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops for the holiday.
Newsweek told Breitbart News in a statement that the magazine has moved away from “knee-jerk political snarkiness” to focus on real reporting.
A Newsweek journalist was terminated Friday after an article entitled, “How is Trump Spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, Golfing, and More” by Jessica Kwong was published Thursday morning. The piece sparked major backlash, as President Trump had actually been landing in Afghanistan, where he surprised American troops for Thanksgiving.
“The problem with this story is that it didn’t contain reporting,” said a Newsweek spokesperson to Breitbart News in a statement. “It was published before Thanksgiving was over. We are trying to pull Newsweek away from that, and into reporting.”
The article was later updated to reflect the president’s visit, changing the headline to: “How Did Trump Spend Thanksgiving? Tweeting, Golfing–and Surprising U.S. Troops in Afghanistan,” along with an added footnote stating that the story had been “substantially updated and edited at 6:17 p.m. EST to reflect the president’s surprise trip to Afghanistan” via additional reporting by James Crowley. read more
That much Trump hatred based on no facts at all did not go unnoticed. Pelosi snapped him right up and has him working closely with Schiff and Nadler on drafting the Articles of Impeachment…
Not good enough. Fire the supervisors that approved this shit.
I don’t have any respect for newsweak, but it hardly seems right firing her when the whole idea was to slip out secretly.
It would be goodie they had some real evidence instead of flashing Mad Magazine Covers!
Nobody cares.
Nobody asked them to begin with.
Nobody cared then and Nobody cares now.
Nobody asked for a firing.
Nobody asked for a firing sob story.
Nobody asked.
Nobody.
Patriots of yesteryear would have already settled this crap.
Gallows would have been constructed
Politicians would have been sentenced
Graves would have been filled
Life would go on…..merrily
Fired her for what?
She was following party line.
just sit back and enjoy the show, soon they’ll be eating their own because this is their lot in life. this is their derangement symptom. this is what happens when the plague of social paranoia sets in. it’s as if they escaped from syndey gottliebs artichoke projects.
There’s a reson NewsWeak sold for one dollar: it has no more value than a vehicle for pictures on supermarket checkout lines, in particular, michelle obama. Odd, because you’d think the markets would understand seeing a photo of that neasuating beast kills the appetites of food shoppers.
1 down – the whole #fAKEnEWS mEDIA SHOULD BE NEXT!
Another fake story! The headline called the POS writer a journalist! No one working for a suck rag like Newsleak is anything close to being a journalist!
Don’t go breaking my heart.
Two Kwongs don’t make a white.
If lovin’ you is Kwong, I don’t wanna be white.
Good! She’ll have more time for her golf game.
I’m still eating ‘LEFTOVERS’, just like the POTUS is.
So after all these years, Newsweek announces it’s trying to focus on journalism.
That IS news….
So what does a newly unemployed “journalist” do for Thanksgiving, I’m curious…
How old is this JOURNOlist?
Yea, yea, Newsweek. And I’m the pope.
Wait right here, there’s a bus on the way over.