NY Times defends Mara Gay for saying she was ‘disturbed’ by American flags
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NY Times defends Mara Gay for saying she was ‘disturbed’ by American flags
The New York Times is vigorously defending editorial board member Mara Gay after she was widely ripped for saying she was “disturbed” at the sight of “dozens of American flags” flying in Long Island.
Gay had herself complained about the attacks that followed her appearance on MSNBC early Tuesday in which she said Donald Trump supporters flew the flag to say that “this is my country … not your country.”
“I see I’m being trolled with the American flag this morning. Trolling a Black journalist with the American flag is not the own some people think it is,” the Times board member and MSNBC contributor tweeted.
After outrage grew throughout the day, the Times’ PR team tweeted a statement late Tuesday insisting that her clearly heard comments had been “irresponsibly taken out of context.”
“Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith,” the official New York Times Communications Twitter handle wrote.
