Arapahoe Track-ap

Probably just an editing error…

Via Breitbart:

On the evening of December 13, in which 18-year-old Karl Pierson entered Arapahoe High School and shot two students, The Denver Post published a description of the teen as a “very opinionated socialist.” However, by the next day, the description merely read that he was “very opinionated.” The word “socialist” was scrubbed without explanation.

The story written for the Post by Zahira Torres and Yesenia Robles initially buried the fact that the young man was identified as a socialist in the 13th paragraph.

In the first paragraph the paper noted that Pierson was “outspoken about politics,” and in the third quoted a friend who said that the shooter “had very strong beliefs about gun laws and stuff.”

But readers had to wait until the 13th paragraph to read what direction those outspoken political views took.

That paragraph originally read: “Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with Pierson, described him as very opinionated Socialist.”

But by Saturday morning, the Post had quietly sent the word “socialist” down the Internet memory hole. The revised paragraph simply reported that Pierson was very opinionated.

The new paragraph read: “Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with Pierson, described him as very opinionated.”

Keep reading…

Update:

Here is their explanation from Lee Ann Colacioppo, the Senior Editor for News/Investigations:

Guess student Angie Mock was mistaken about him being a committed Socialist too.

Do you think the people that choose to respond as this Editor did ever actually vette what they plan to say? If she had, maybe she would have realized how ridiculous that sounds…

Update:

Maybe even a bit more than a socialist…

From another classmate, senior Chris Davis, 18, “He was a weird kid”. “He’s a self-proclaimed communist, just wears Soviet shirts all the time.”
Pierson became easily aggravated, “always liked to be right” and didn’t like losing, Davis said (kind of like most Communists).

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