The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story

(the Atlantic) -On Friday January 18 a group of white teenage boys wearing maga hats mobbed an elderly Native American man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial chanting Make America great again" menacing him and taunting him in racially motivated ways. It is the kind of thing that happens every daypossibly every hourin Donald Trumps America. But this time there was proof: a video. Was it problematic that it offered no evidence that these things had happened? No. What mattered was that it had happened and that there was video to prove it. The fact of there being a video became stronger than the video itself. Read More