Remember Nick Sandmann?
He was (still is) the 16 year old student from Covington Catholic high school, who media claimed was harassing a poor, elderly native American man for no reason…
…when the videos they could have looked at clearly showed it was the native American activist going after Sandmann and his friends, getting in Sandmann’s face and banging a drum at him to try to provoke a confrontation…one which never came.
As you may be aware, Sandmann now has a legal team which is suing several media outlets – CNN among them – for defamation of character.
Yesterday, another one of those suits was filed – this one against NBC/Universal. Here is its premise:
“NBCUniversal attacked Nicholas by relying heavily on biased and unreliable sources without conducting any reasonable investigation of the circumstances surrounding the January 18 incident,”
Is the suit stating things accurately? Yes it is.
Does it have a winnable case against media, given their constitutional protections and a lot of precedent on similar cases? Frankly, I doubt it.
But will NBC/Universal, and CNN and the others being sued try settling this case before trial, because retrieving what is left of their reputations – i.e. not having to explain why their coverage was so disgracefully dishonest in public – is worth the money?
That, I’d have to say yes to.
Meanwhile, the sickeningly racist, profane “Black Hebrew Israelites”, who loudly, as conspicuously as they could, tossed racial and homophobic slurs against those students, continue to get a free pass.
I wonder when the same media which are about to take a hit on the Sandmann suit get around to doing a few features on this crowd.
Or do they think they’re “very fine people”?
