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Size Matters: WaPo Reporter Under Fire After Cropping Out DRUM of Rubbing Alcohol from Photo to Blame Trump for Price Spike

by mosesman

  • Size Matters: WaPo Reporter Under Fire After Cropping Out DRUM of Rubbing Alcohol from Photo to Blame Trump for Price Spike
    by https://www.rt.com/
    A reporter for the Washington Post was taken to the woodshed after she cited a price tag for an industrial-sized barrel of rubbing alcohol to imply the Trump administration sent its cost skyrocketing… but edited out the barrel.
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    Journalist Amber Phillips, who works on the Post’s political analysis blog ‘The Fix,’ posted a tweet on Thursday evening suggesting that by mentioning isopropyl alcohol’s effectiveness in ‘killing’ the coronavirus, President Trump triggered a vast spike in price for the common cleanser.
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    “Isopropyl alcohol, which the Trump administration is saying can kill the virus in 30 seconds on surfaces, for sale on Amazon right now for $2,375,”     Phillips said in a now-deleted tweet, sharing a screenshot from the online retailer showing a seemingly steep price.
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    So what’s the rub? The journalist conveniently – and by all appearances deliberately – cropped the image to omit the quantity for sale: a massive, industrial-sized 55-gallon drum of the volatile liquid, a bit more than the 32-ounce bottle one might pick up at the local corner store. Netizens quickly took notice of the deceptive edit, unleashing a wave of ridicule on the reporter, who promptly sent the embarrassing tweet into the memory hole.
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