Tweet about Little Rock shooting earns The New York Times a much needed geography lesson

Local officials are saying that 28 people were hurt in a shooting early Saturday after a dispute at a downtown Little Rock nightclub.

The city’s police chief said officers suspect multiple people fired weapons but that the incident was not terror-related.Little Rock Police said on Twitter that 25 people suffered gunshot wounds and three had unrelated injuries. Police said all were expected to survive.Clubgoers between the ages of 16 and 35 suffered gunshot wounds, and three others had unrelated injuries. Two people were in critical condition Saturday afternoon, police said.The shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at the Power Ultra Lounge, a club in a two-story building downtown about 1 mile east of the state Capitol, during a concert by Tennessee rapper Finese 2Tymes, CBS affiliate KTHV-TV reports….”We do NOT believe this incident was an active shooter or terror related incident. It appears to have been a dispute at a concert,” the city police posted on its Twitter account overnight.

In covering the story, one Tweet stood out:

Admittedly, the actual story did report the city correctly. However, the ensuing the geography review and diversity lesson that the haughty publication received is schadenfreudelicious.

Many of the comments reference the NYT’s recent firing of copy editors:

It appears that karma has been spending a lot of time with the establishment media this week.

Tags: NY Times, Twitter

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