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NY Post Under Fire for Headline on San Bernardino Shooting

HeadlineDec 04, 2015

The New York Post is facing criticism after it changed its front-page headline on the San Bernardino mass shooting from “Murder Mission” to “Muslim Killers,” after the suspects were identified as Muslims. The early edition of Thursday’s Post read: “Shooters slaughter 14 in California.” By the afternoon, after police identified the suspects as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the subheadline had changed to “Terror eyed as couple slaughters 14 in California.” The change came as Assistant FBI Director David Bowdich said, “We do not yet know the motive.”

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