(07-24-2020, 03:09 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-24-2020, 01:46 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: They intentionally mischaracterized events in order to cast aspersion on a 17-year-old boy, and by extension, Donald Trump supporters. They saw a big meaty opportunity to use their journalistic front to score political bias points. And it worked, for a while.

Not only is it dishonest news, it is F-A-K-E.

No, their editorial team saw a photo and made a bunch of assumptions about what the photo meant.  Most people who just saw the photo and nothing else would have thought those assumptions were likely true.  The editorial team should have checked for the real story before publishing the photo. 
It's hard to figure out how much was malice and how much was negligence.  Malice and negligence were both there.  Glad they settled it out of court.

There was plenty of video available immediately after that told the entire story. Even Che Guevara shirt-wearing Redditors were commenting the next day that what the MSM was portraying was off the mark. The fact of the matter is the entities being sued did not practice even a smidgen of journalistic integrity and attempt to characterize the situation in its actual light. It was an intentional smear that they're paying dearly for and profoundly reinforces the accusations that they are biased organizations.

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