A lot is surmised during complete mayhem. The New York Times did the right thing and retracted any misinformation that it had received. Kindly put the country first and realize the reporting that day was piecemeal. There is plenty of room to forgive any mistakes made. The New York Times was not taking up the side of the insurrectionists. That is important, too.
Officer Sicknick died of trauma from the insurrection that day. I don't care if it was high blood pressure or otherwise. I did hear one report stating an officer collapsed when he returned to the station. So there was a lot of information flowing because people wanted to know what was happening. Quite frankly, I found the coverage of the insurrection water-downed.
Officer Sicknick's story is no less important. He was honored and rightly so. There were many injuries to the police that day. There are head injuries and other maiming occurred. So, while this is an error in initial reporting it is not a crime. We need to keep our attention where it belongs and that is the criminality of the day and of Donald John Trump.
No one is going to make a journalist mistake the story. It isn't. It took a coroner to determine the cause of death. Enough. There are people dead from that day and the officer, his family, and peers received the respect they all deserved.
The real story are the people arrested and their crimes against the Constitution. If you want to talk about lies, talk about the ones Donald John Trump made to his loyalists that manifested in illegal acts. Talk about those lies and the fact Trump isn't implicated in any of the crimes while his loyalists take all the blame. Write about those lies and injustices. Write about the retractions that were never made. FOX News could write retractions for a year and they still would not have all of them corrected. Write about those lies.
The New York Times retraction is not a story it is a correction and that is all it is. Those that want to correct it along with the New York Times should feel free to do so, but, making a mistake the story is a huge mistake.
