But the Washington Post also wants you to know that Jones “flourished” despite a “tumultuous childhood,” up until the part where he tried to kill five people.They needed four different journalists to team up and write a puff piece about Jones, headlined “Suspected U-Va. gunman had troubled childhood, but then flourished.” Evidently, the social media honchos at the Post recognized that this didn’t play well and deleted the tweet promoting the story, but the headline remained.
The content of the piece wasn’t much better. The four journalists focused on a 2018 profile of Jones in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which detailed how Jones had been “celebrated for overcoming” his rough childhood. Jones’s mother told the Washington Post that “Chris was a good kid” before hanging up, and the outlet parroted a line from the story about how Jones’s mentors had “helped him let go of his anger.” According to the piece, “Jones appeared to flourish in the years that followed.
This is not some attempt to determine what went wrong in Jones’s path from a “tumultuous childhood” to “flourishing.” The Washington Post attempted to reach out to people close to him, but they didn’t want to provide any information about Jones during the manhunt. Instead, the outlet was left with simply retelling the 2018 Richmond Times-Dispatch story celebrating Jones for overcoming hardship in a piece that is about a man who allegedly killed three people.
It is a gross piece reminiscent of the whitewashing outlets like the Washington Post give to terrorists and dictators in obituaries. It paints Jones in a favorable light while three victims lie dead and two others are lying in a hospital. It is entirely inappropriate and unnecessary. You could say it also isn’t journalism but, given the sorry state of the profession at legacy media outlets, that wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
ZacharyFaria The Post is definitely not the Woodward & Bernstein bastion of journalism it once was. Bias has entrenched itself as a destructive force in journalism & beyond. I don’t this WaPo can recover from their bias, but they definitely enjoy their own echo chamber
ZacharyFaria Hopefully the reporter will let him stay in his home while he awaits his trial.
ZacharyFaria Has anyone analyzed how many of these shooters are fatherless boys?
ZacharyFaria Well he's a mass murderer now.
NewsPolitics ZacharyFaria your piece claims the tweet is deleted but the headline remains. it's actually the opposite. the tweet is still live, but the headline changed.
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