(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.

No.  They intentionally took a photo and ran a FAKE story to make Trump supporters and more specifically this young man look bad.  It's almost like they were trying to "teach the young man a lesson" indoctrinate him like so many other young impressionable youths.

I wish it would have gone to court.  Settling still makes the FAKE news media look bad, but not as bad as a court judgement against them.

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