Gosh, I wonder how much easier the sentence would have been if he had been white and claimed two black men beat him up and called him racial names. Any guesses? And would the TV news stories ever end if it had been that way?
Indeed. Wall to wall coverage for a very long period of time, with microphones being thrust in the face of anyone who backed the hoax demanding to know why they didn’t wait “until the facts were known.” With this, the bare minimum coverage, with no apologies whatsoever being demanded of those who jumped to conclusions without knowing the facts first.