[Restless]

So, the media rush to get the story out there without checking to see if it’s true, the facts show their version of events was completely wrong, and we’re bad people for noticing.

[thoughtomator]

It’s hard proof that that today’s corporate reporters don’t actually do any of the legwork they pretend they do.

[a fool in paradise]

>>So, the media rush to get the story out there without checking to see if it’s true, the facts show their version of events was completely wrong, and we’re bad people for noticing.

Three day weekend, akin to a document dump, virtue signaling on “MLK Weekend”.

Spread a lie around the world before facts can get in the way of the talking points.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The Wash. Post’s mantra is “Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts”.

Re the paper’s name, Washington Compost. You can’t make compost without shit.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. The Covington boys were WAITING FOR A FREAKING BUS. They were minding their own business until a black supremacist group started shouting profanity and racial insults at them. Even then they didn't react. So Nathan Phillips pushes his way into the boys and starts beating his drum. One of the boys near him (Mr. Sandman) starts smiling as a way to brush this created drama off and, suddenly, he is guilty of smirking and leading the boys in insulting Mr. Phillips.

It turns out Mr. Phillips is not only NOT elderly (63), he is NOT a Vietnam veteran and, quite possibly, he is NOT more than a fraction Native American.* He is a full time activist who lives for these publicity stunts, being part of a crowd who was trying to break in and disrupt a Catholic mass later that same evening.

* FWIW, most Native Americans have a genetic marker that allows them to grow lush crops of hair on their head but little elsewhere on their bodies. If you look up close, Phillips is clearly balding the same places on the head as white men do.