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View: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/882422267166195713
From the cnn article...
"The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation," he wrote. "I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President's Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more. What the President's feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news."
The apology has since been taken down by the moderators of /The_Donald subreddit.
After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
Said tweet heard round the world..
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680
Is that an appropriate response by news organization??
Other than the fact that I find CNN's claims that this incites violence against them to be ludicrous, rather than a meme depicting Trump's continue to war of words with CNN, what journalistic value is there here? What journalistic ethics are at play in which the power of the press threatens to doxx an internet satirist if they don't apologize profusely enough?
Is the debate of violence inciting versus satire actually happening with such strong arming?
