There are actually newspapers in Washington DC that are worth the paper they’re printed on. For example the Washington Examiner: [1]
Nathan Phillips, the Native American activist who falsely accused Covington Catholic High School students of blocking him during a confrontation he initiated, has a criminal record — including assault and escape from jail — and appears to have misrepresented his military service.
Phillips, 63, suggested high school junior Nick Sandmann, the teenager at the center of the viral encounter after separate D.C. rallies, face expulsion for failing to “accept any responsibility” or apologize to Phillips publicly.
In his own teenage years and early 20s, Phillips, using his adoptive name Nathaniel R. Stanard, was charged with escaping from prison, assault, and several alcohol-related crimes, according to local news reports at the time from his hometown of Lincoln, Neb.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post is busy issuing corrections, that few people will note. Breitbart however does [2].
The latest blunder follows a string of missteps by the establishment media who rushed to condemn a group of Covington Catholic High School students for there behavior during a confrontation with Philips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Blunder? Perhaps.
I mean, if you want to be generous about it, okay we can call it that. But the fact of the matter is it’s been happening all too often these days.
It’s as I have been saying on other subjects… you don’t get the kind of consistency we’re seeing out of the mainstream press these days without two things going for you… Talent, and intent.
we have been seeing this kind of stuff coming out of the mainstream press where they are overtly supporting the left, that it makes laughable reclaim said there were innocent mistakes involved.
I mean, maybe it’s just me, but observing what’s been going on with our mainstream press and the distance between them and the truth of the matter, even limiting those talking points to the last 2 years, ( Kavenaugh, the Russian collusion scam, the lack of coverage on Hillary Clinton’s misdeeds, while doing 90 some odd percent negative coverage of Donald Trump, BuzzFeed getting caught with its pants down) it’s hard to come to any other conclusion then our mainstream media is little more than a cheering section for the Democrat Party.
I’ve heard some suggest that it’s time for the mainstream media to do some soul-searching. Thing is, given the kind of left-leaning we are all seeing from the supposed mainstream media,I wonder if they have any.
At this point the question becomes what, if anything, can be done about all this. I suspect did in the end the only thing that can really be done, is what the Covington high school kids lawyers are doing. Lawsuits against those distributing and in fact promoting the inaccuracies.
Granted, that such lawsuits are dangerous ground in both directions. And certainly, we are going to see arguments that such lawsuits put in Jeopardy our understanding of the First Amendment.
Which in turn I label as ironic since, particularly in the case of the Covington high school kids, what of the respect of the First Amendment allowing them to wear their “make America great again” hats?
I also wonder how serious a punishment such places as WaPo are going to get even if they lose such lawsuits. As the old saying goes, “what once were vices now are habits”. They’ve been getting away with this stuff for so long now that it is logical to ask if they can ever be taken to task legally for it.