If you read the entire article, it is apparent that now that the facts are out, the press will portray all the black people in Durham who rushed to judgment as only wanting justice to prevail rather than as the racists they truly are.
Amen. It is Spin by the MSM. They thought they had a war chariot to ride to "prove" their world view.
When it turned out to be a freight train over the cliff of reason instead, they are in damage control.
It isn't the press leading that mantra -- it's the NAACP: They've been prominently asserting this mantra for quite some time; it's failsafe.
Early in the case, NAACP supporting Mangum in talking points asserted their demand that "justice be done".
Now that the case has been proven a sham, the NAACP says "they only want justice to be done".
The Durham blacks will do what ever the Rat Plantation owners tell them to do.
I wouldn't say all. I grew up in an integrated neighborhood in Queens. I shared H. L. Mencken's assessment that American Negroes (as he called "them") were remarkably level headed despite the attempts by their White "friends" to rile "them" up.
A lot has changed since 1964 in this country. One thing is that for the last forty plus years the LameStream Media has been infected with a perverse reflexive White guilt, wherein (as has been widely noted) Blacks_can_do_no_wrong and when it is incontrovertibly shown that a Black person has committed a crime, the "root cause" is White racism.
I think there are a great number of fair minded people of good will in the Black community. When the LSM present only the ex parte pleadings of an ambitious prosecutor portraying an outrageous crime committed by privileged White boys (and anyone at Duke is privileged) against a poor young Black woman (few women who have attractive alternatives strip for frat boys, let's face it) Blacks (and many Whites) will be outraged.
The real outrage here is Nifong's and the LSM who acted as willing dupes ("a story too good to check"). Nifong is a truly sorry s.o.b. A career prosecutor (if he had any talent, he'd switch teams and make some real dough) who gets a temporary appointment as DA and wants to hold on the office, the first time he was ever the Boss, it went to his head. Now he knows that cause was not in his stars but in himself that he be one of nature's underlings. He ruined his career and his fortune. Good, he's gonna get what he deserves.