I presume the settlement will make the Covington kids satisfactorily well-to-do. But I hope it goes a step further. Every offending news organization should have to do on-air and in-print mea culpas, scripted appropriately so that there is no hedging, repeated often enough and long enough to offset the public perceptions the offending statements were designed to induce. How many repetitions of a correction does it take to recall a lie? In terms simply of comparative airtime, does it take a factor of ten?
In your post you say that you “presume the settlement will make the Covington kids satisfactorily well-to-do.” I have not seen or heard that Sandmann is going to share in any new found wealth with his classmates. Where did you get that info?