On his show tonight, Tucker Carlson repeatedly mentioned a reporter named Murray Carpenter, suggesting Carpenter was writing a story for NYT that would mention Carlson's home address. Carlson then asked what might happen if he revealed the home addresses of Carpenter & NYT eds.
Twitter is already full of threatening messages aimed at Carpenter.
In 2018, an anti-fascist organization called Smash Racism D.C. posted Carlson's address on Twitter. A group of demonstrators later surrounded Carlson's home and chanted, "We know where you sleep at night." washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11…
NYT says it never had plans to "expose any residence of Tucker Carlson's," @jeremymbarr reports:
Whatever objections Carlson may have had to any story underway, surely he was aware of the power of his own actions. No reporter should face threats -- veiled or otherwise -- to have their home address leaked to the public.
(And yes, I say this as a reporter who had her home address leaked to the public, had to move to a hotel for several nights and then had a security detail accompany me 24/7 until the threats largely subsided.)
It was terrifying to go through, and I don't recommend it.
