alt Hacker News> Doomed: Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die
https://nypost.com/2012/12/05/a-picture-of-controversy/
There's a man that fell off the subway platform, about to get killed by the subway train, and the New York post photographer saw a great opportunity for a photo op for his employer instead of, y'know helping the guy out. Sure, the NYT has had its fair share of scandals but the NY Post isn't well respected for a whole other level of malfeasance.
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It wasn't an employee, it was a freelancer who likely tried to sell the photo to multiple outlets. The guy also explained that it didn't happen as you describe https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20611140
The NY Post is crass, we all know that. But if that's your best example of their malfeasance, then I guess they aren't that evil after all.
FWIW, the photographer, Rashid Umar Abbasi, was a freelance photographer.
I guess the Post would need to help start a war that kills a couple hundred thousand people before they're seen as respectable.
https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...