Investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher is not having a good day. Earlier she posted this tweet bragging about all the info she drudged up about the victim of the United dragging and beating:
People immediately ripped into her for trying to drag the victim through the mud, and she had to delete the tweet.
Here are some reactions:
@lisa_fletch You, personally, are further victimizing a man who was the victim of a violent crime.
— Lindsay Robertson (@lindsayism) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch I love how you delete your wildly ridiculous and shameful Tweet to protect your PAST, yet you think the past of assault victim is fair game.
— Amy Miransky (@AmyMiransky) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch @ABC7News How the fuck is his past relevant to what happened with United? I hope he sues the shit out of them.
— Chucκ IɴDᴀZᴏɴΞ (@InDaZone) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch @ABC7News Seriously, what the fuck? Stop trying to retroactively justify state violence. Your role as a journalist is to do LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE
— blorp (@WhitneyEllenB) April 11, 2017
Fletcher tried to explain her actions and decried that some were calling for violence, apparently.
1/3) Hey Twitter, I know my tweet didn't sit well. I can understand how it looks one-sided. I can assure you, it's not.
— Lisa Fletcher (@lisa_fletch) April 11, 2017
2/3) By covering this side of the story, we’re not defending United in any way. We’ll continue to address their role in this situation.
— Lisa Fletcher (@lisa_fletch) April 11, 2017
3/3) Having said that, violent threats against me – simply for giving all angles of the story – are not okay.
— Lisa Fletcher (@lisa_fletch) April 11, 2017
Yeah, that didn’t sit too well with people either.
@lisa_fletch Agree. And I hope that if violence were ever perpetrated against you, the news wouldn't dig up trash on your past to blame you for it.
— Brad Walsh (@BradWalsh) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch @ABC7News do you think United's flight crew had the same documentation? what is the point of this? Why not just DOX him and get it over with?
— Jonathan Deesi̓̐ͦ̄ng (@Deesing) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch Crowing about your scoop on the "troubled past" of a man who was assaulted isn't scoop journalism, it's focusing a lens on the *victim*.
— robert (@200dollarshirt) April 11, 2017
@lisa_fletch @ABC7News this is a sad excuse for journalism, be better at your job
— Tyler Oakley (@tyleroakley) April 11, 2017
So yeah, I think reporters are actually acting more like bloggers because they see that people love that kind of stuff – they love seeing people’s past come back to bite them. But in this case, I think the story has really hit a nerve in people because it’s pretty clear the airline invited random violence on a passenger through no fault of his own just to save a buck. Really, that could happen to any of us. And would Fletcher drudge up your past to make you seem unreasonable too? That’s why Fletcher is getting absolutely nuked right now….