(07-24-2020, 05:15 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

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

That was the next day. MSM had already gone bonkers before that.

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(07-24-2020, 05:32 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

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

What happened was someone posted the photo, I believe on Twitter, with text explaining that the kid in the red hat had shouted "build the wall" at the native American.
That just wasn't true.
But if it was true, it would have been outrageous. 
and the idea of it got stuck in these editor's minds as they decided to retweet the post.

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