A viral post on Facebook claimed that a New York Times reporter “has published Tucker Carlson’s home address & location.” The post is referring to allegations that Carlson made on his Fox News show Monday night. Carlson claimed that the Times is “doing a story on the location of my family's house.” The New York Times was quick to deny the charge on Twitter:
Regardless of whose version of events is correct, one thing is sure: The New York Times has not published Carlson’s address and Antifa has not ‘“shown up threatening his wife & kids.” Even Carlson did not go so far on his show, instead claiming that while such a story existed it had not yet been published and was “slated to run in the paper this week.” Carlson had his home address revealed in 2018, leading to protesters showing up outside his home and harassing his family. Carlson mentioned on his show Monday that his family had to move as a result, and currently his new address is not publicly known.
The viral post seems to have mixed elements from Carlson’s past experience with doxxing with his current claim of the New York Times’ threat to do so. However, the Times has not published an article revealing Carlson’s address and continues to deny that the paper ever planned to do so.
Photograph of Tucker Carlson by Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.
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How about fact checking something that takes more than high school education and five minutes on Google. For instance what was the threat posed against Carlson? Was it real? Does doxxing qualify as a threat against person or property? The fact that Carlson already had this happen certainly would make him sensitive to the threat and perhaps less than trusting of the denials at the NYT. Yet you blithely accept the denial (instead of fact checking whether NYT has ever threatened doxxing before). Ps. I googled it and they threatened Slate Star Codex in June according to Reuters.
How about a discussion about the constitutional right to assembly? Yes it must be peaceable but what other limits are there. Does one have to respect private property? Public property? Can a group enter a private street or step up to your door to protest? I know that one has to stay on the side walk in order to pass out tracks to the High School or abortion clinic without approval. Perhaps a primer on what a crowd can and cannot do would be appropriate? I am getting tired of the assumptions that (unlike other constitutional rights) the right to assembly has no limits.
I paid before the pay wall went up because I expect more from you guys.
Would the NYT have published his home’s location if he had not taken preemptive action? They will deny it but he probably made a wise move.