January 19, 2023 --

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Julie Kelly, at American Greatness, puts the media to shame with her investigative reporting. LPR here calls attention to Ms Kelly's outstanding expose how, sadly, the family of Brian Sicknick has accepted the Big Lie, originally promoted by The Nww York Times, about his death.

Here is Ms. Kelly's reference in her American Greatness article, "The Shameful Exploitation of Brian Sicknick's Death," to the false report in The Nw York Times and its subsequent correction:

"Less than 24 hours after Sicknick died, the New York Times published an anonymously sourced account claiming Sicknick had been bludgeoned to death by protesters using a fire extinguisher. The paper retracted the story a month later but the damage was done; the notion that Sicknick died at the hands of Trump supporters became an animating feature of “insurrection” folklore, repeated to this day by the news media and federal judges handling January 6 criminal cases. "

It is apparent that the Times rushed to print the false report about the Sicknick death without bothering to see a death certificate, much less whatever information might be obtained from a hospital. By its rushed and false narrative on the Sicknick death, the Times indicated that it was following the journalistic instruction of a Hollywood movie -- "Who Shot Liberty Valance?" -- not the teaching of a J-School, to wit: when the facts don't fit the preferred narrative, print the legend (the lie), not the truth. But, then, this instruction -- in the context of reporting (falsely) on Donald J. Trump -- was handed down by Jim Rutenberg, in a Times directive to the media, August 2016:

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The title of the Rutenberg directive, "Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism" was grossly misleading -- as the Rutenberg guidance amounted to: Ignore Objectivity In Reporting on Donald J. Trump.

For The New York Times, the lie about the death of Officer Sicknick derived from the Rutenberg guidance; it was not an unfortun-ate occasion of journalistic malpractice. The truth is: the August 2016 Rutenberg directive to the media explain that full range of media lies about Donald J. Trump -- from the Big Lie Russia hoax to the present. LPR suggests: in reading media reports on Donald J. Trump, believe your own common sense, not the media.

Less than 24 hours after Sicknick died, the New York Times published an anonymously sourced account claiming Sicknick had been bludgeoned to death by protesters using a fire extinguisher. The paper retracted the story a month later but the damage was done; the notion that Sicknick died at the hands of Trump supporters became an animating feature of “insurrection” folklore, repeated to this day by the news media and federal judges handling January 6 criminal cases.