Reporter Who Tweeted His Hope That Trump’s ‘Life Would End’ Receives A Dose Of Instant Karma
“… violated our professional standards.”
A Los Angeles Times reporter has been terminated after sending out a tweet on Thursday wishing death upon Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump.
South Korea-based journalist Steven Borowiec was responding to a tweet sent out by Time Magazine that read, “See Donald Trump’s life in photos.”
See Donald Trump's life in photos https://t.co/2cLiEvkuwY pic.twitter.com/zTX66oNbEZ
— TIME (@TIME) November 3, 2016
Borowiec responded to the tweet: “@TIME I would rather see Donald Trump’s life end.”
Really hope the @latimes understands that one of its journalists said this about @realDonaldTrump … before deleting the Tweet pic.twitter.com/3g5ioV0oGO
— Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) November 3, 2016
Borowiec later deleted the tweet after it began to garner negative media attention and went viral on social media as a screenshot.
“I apologize for my Trump tweet. I meant it in jest,” Borowiec posted to his account later.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Times confirmed to TheBlaze that the newspaper had cut ties with Borowiec over the incident.
“Earlier today, Steven Borowiec, a freelance journalist in South Korea, posted a tweet about Donald Trump on his personal Twitter profile that violated our professional standards,” the email said. “The Los Angeles Times is committed to fair, evenhanded coverage of the presidential campaign, and expects all journalists representing the paper, including non-staff contributors such as Mr. Borowiec, to adhere to this standard in their articles and social media posts. We regard Mr. Borowiec’s comment as inexcusable, and we have ended our relationship with him.”
Borowiec is among some of the other media-types who have fantasized about Trump’s death during this election season. Earlier in the year, NBC producer Matthew Mowrer praised an attempted assassination attempt on Trump after an illegal immigrant tried to kill the Republican nominee at a Las Vegas rally.
“It could be argued that the dude who was hoping to assassinate Donald Trump is a good guy with a gun,” Mower tweeted at the time.
The ease in which the media portray Trump as a racist demagogue, which in turn leads to violent acts against him, was pointed out previously by Breitbart News.
“The Left and the establishment Right have jointly and incessantly smeared Trump as a racist, sexist, Islamaphobic, demagogue, Hitler, subconsciously Hitler, not Hitler but Mussolini, and that his working class white supporters along with their communities ‘deserve to die.’ Creator of Dilbert and neutral observer of the 2016 presidential race Scott Adams warned that the Hillary Clinton campaign was signaling it’s ‘morally justifiable to assassinate’ Trump.”