- Probably the worst crime a journalist can commit is attributing to someone a statement–putting it in quotation marks–that the person never said.
That would get you fired from a 9th grade student paper.
But it is exactly what former Washington Post “journalist” Karen Attiah did, on the BlueSky hate platform:
But it is exactly what former Washington Post “journalist” Karen Attiah did, on the BlueSky hate platform:
- The quote Attiah attributed to Charlie Kirk?
- He never said it.
- She just made it up.
Her fabrication was rapidly exposed on X, and The Washington Post did the only thing it could, confronted with such misconduct: they fired her...
- The New York Times exists for the sole purpose of misinforming its readers.
The good news is that hardly anyone still takes that paper seriously.
The Times’s long record of fabrication and misinformation has caught up with it.

