{"id":1874,"date":"2017-03-06T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:53:31","slug":"juan-thompson-disgraced-journalist-jilted-lover-and-hate-crime-counterfeiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/juan-thompson-disgraced-journalist-jilted-lover-and-hate-crime-counterfeiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Thompson, Disgraced Journalist, Jilted Lover, and “Hate Crime” Counterfeiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"media-ethics-980x560-c-default1\"The tragic\u00a0roster\u00a0of journalists who have disgraced their profession gained a new member last week when Juan Thompson, a reporter for the Intercept, was arrested on a number of serious charges. Those charges include\u00a0“making more than a half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish history museum” as reported in the NY Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This come after Thompson was\u00a0fired from his job as a reporter last year. According to media reports Thompson was\u00a0“accused by the website the Intercept of fabricating quotes, creating fake email accounts, and impersonating other people, including the editor of the website. The site had described Thompson as a former reporter for DNAinfo Chicago and for WBEZ.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out that his journalistic malpractice was just the\u00a0tip of the iceberg. Actually an iceberg it too generous of an analogy; glacial ice too pure to describe this maleficence. Thompson’s\u00a0deceptive acts as a journalist\u00a0were just the festering\u00a0sore on the surface masking\u00a0the cancer inside.<\/p>\n

Thompson’s threats against Jewish schools and community centers came at a time when other, unrelated, anti-Semitic threats were being made and Jewish cemeteries were being vandalized. These hate crimes have been and continue to be covered by the news media as further evidence of the hatred and divisiveness ailing\u00a0our country.<\/p>\n

But Thompson’s acts were not, as it turned out, hate crimes against a religious minority, but rather an attempt to frame his former girlfriend who ended their relationship last summer. That’s right, a jilted lover stalked, harassed,\u00a0and threatened his former girlfriend, and then tried to frame her by committing “hate crimes” in her name. According to Daily Mail<\/a>, Thompson threatened to tell his former girlfriend’s\u00a0future employers “that [she’s]\u00a0a racist and homophobe.” Accusations that were\u00a0sure to intimidate and harass.<\/p>\n

Thompson’s\u00a0crimes do damage to the journalistic profession he\u00a0once represented\u00a0and to those who faithfully do their job with integrity and honesty. But they\u00a0also do damage to the\u00a0cause of those who fight against\u00a0the injustice of hate crimes. Sadly, and somewhat ironically,\u00a0each time the\u00a0acts now attributed to Thompson were reported as hate crimes it diminished the impact of real\u00a0hate crimes…crimes that deserve public outrage and judicial action.<\/p>\n

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The tragic\u00a0roster\u00a0of journalists who have disgraced their profession gained a new member last week when Juan Thompson, a reporter for the Intercept, was arrested on a number of serious charges. Those charges include\u00a0“making more than a half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish history museum” as reported in the NY Times. … <\/p>\n

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