New York Times slammed for tweeting calling sexual assault 'harmless fun'

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Sep 15, 2019, 11:50 AM IST

Bizarre wording from NYT.

The New York Times hasn’t covered itself with glory in recent days, particularly its Kashmir coverage in which including an Imran Khan propaganda piece masquerading as an ‘opinion editorial’, which even threatened a nuclear winter. 

On Sunday, they were again the subject of much controversy over a series of bizarre tweets which they retracted.

NYT Opinion, in a piece about Brett Kavanaugh wrote: “ “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun…”

The line was rather bizarre when one considers that case where a fellow Yale student accused the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavenaugh of sexual assault during a freshman year party.

Two minutes later, they deleted the tweet and wrote: “ “We have deleted an earlier tweet to this article that was poorly phrased.”

The retraction was later deleted as well and they wrote: “We deleted a previous tweet regarding this article. It was offensive, and we apologize.”

 

Kavanaugh was nominated by Trump last year and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, after televised hearings dominated by allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 1982. Kavanaugh forcefully denied the allegations.