The Washington Post issued an editor’s note Friday over its early coverage of a viral exchange between a student from Covington Catholic High School and a Native American veteran.
The paper said subsequent evidence, including reporting, unsurfaced video and a student’s statement clarifies the interaction and either contradicts or fails to confirm the Post's initial stories.
“Subsequent reporting, a student’s statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story — including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict,” the Post said.
Sandmann filed a lawsuit against the Post earlier this month over its coverage, which the student said “targeted and bullied” him and included “a series of false and defamatory print and online articles.” He is seeking $50 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages and claimed that the reporting caused “permanent harm to his reputation.”
Trump, a vociferous critic of the Post, praised the lawsuit, tweeting “Go get them Nick. Fake News!”
looks like WaPo is gearing up for what they believe will probably be the loosing side of a lawsuit
After about a month and a half of everyone (except some of their own readers) knowing that WaPo literally published fake news about Nick Sandmann and the Covington Catholics, as well as now that they are knee deep in a 250million dollar lawsuit WaPo finally officially admits that they misreported the incident – now that their readers no longer have the incident on their mind nor care anymore
funny how that works – deliberately misreport something to push a narrative
and about 45 days after everyone stopped caring you admit you lied
its a literal propoganda agency that saves face by quielty saying "oops were wrong" months after they blasted their lies non stop and the damage is done
Landon Moore
They are preparing for the poo to hit the loo
Dominic Gomez
. It wasn't fake news. They reported the initial video which showed standing around a native dude playing a drum and some of them tomahawk chopping toward him.
They also reported on subsequent footage which showed more context, including the hebrew israelite dudes yelling obscenities and that the native guy was the one who walked between them.
The only fake news reported by WaPo was that the native guy was a Vietnam War vet, which they later had to redact when they found out he was a marine in the Vietnam War era but wasn't deployed to Vietnam.
The initial video was misleading by itself, but that wasn't their creation; they merely presented it, which is fine so long as they updated their story as new evidence became available, which they did. If anyone was in the wrong, it was the hebrew israelites who yelled slurs at everyone. But I've been 15 years old before, fucking obviously a bunch of high school boys wearing MAGA hats are looking to attract attention. They're probably not associating with Trump because they love tax cuts and tariffs. It's because he says edgy shit about women and brown people and that gets peoples panties in a bunch, thus it makes boring kids feel interesting to associate with.
And the intentional staggered release of the footage, starting with the highly provocative bit about the guys surrounding the native dude was obviously intentional as well; He probably isn't a victim, he knew why he was wearing a MAGA hat. Teenage boys do stupid shit and he did some stupid provocative shit and got everyone's attention, mission accomplished
Asher Sanchez
that's dumb, now they can't deny it in the courtroom, they really can't stop failing
Adam Ward
the kids didn't surround the feathernigger and chop him with tomohawks you fucking faggot
Cameron Mitchell
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Ethan Lee
i just copy/pasted good comments from reddit
the posters there are alot smarter than 1/2 senile twats like you
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Jose Martinez
SUE THEM NICK!
Josiah Baker
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