Posted on 03/22/2021 10:53:05 AM PDT by C19fan
We know from the recent past how the American news media work. When the Covington Catholic boys, resplendent in MAGA caps, stood accused of attacking a peaceable elderly Indian on the Washington Mall, the media went berserk with stories accusing them of being bigotry-driven bullies. Any ambiguity in the evidence was discarded. The media just knew that these white, Catholic school Trump supporters were the villains, and this poor old Indian man was their target. It fit the narrative.
Almost none of that was true. It turned out that the schoolboys had been cruelly taunted by members of a black racist cult prior to the confrontation with the old Indian — who provoked the boys, and then lied about it. This was all captured on video. The media narrative collapsed. Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic teen who had been at the center of the controversy, sued the Washington Post for $250 million for slander and libel, and later settled the suit for an undisclosed sum.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Just like the Reichstag fire, Horst Wessel, etc...
bkmk
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