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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...rman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/
If you want the whole story and draw your own conclusions from the video, here it is:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuc...eople-in-power-attacking-people-theyve-failed
But the overarching problem is you shouldn't have to watch it yourself. The media should have presented the issue fairly since it was largely non partisan - abortion, Indian land, Catholic school, and a radical black group. What did the media show as "truth"? An old man and a high school kid in a rigged scene.
"I Failed the Covington Catholic Test. Next time there’s a viral story, I’ll wait for more facts to emerge.
The story is a Rorschach test—tell me how you first reacted, and I can probably tell where you live, who you voted for in 2016, and your general take on a list of other issues—but it shouldn’t be. Take away the video and tell me why millions of people care so much about an obnoxious group of high-school students protesting legalized abortion and a small circle of American Indians protesting centuries of mistreatment who were briefly locked in a tense standoff. Take away Twitter and Facebook and explain why total strangers care so much about people they don’t know in a confrontation they didn’t witness. Why are we all so primed for outrage, and what if the thousands of words and countless hours spent on this had been directed toward something consequential?
If the Covington Catholic incident was a test, it’s one I failed—along with most others. Will we learn from it, or will we continue to roam social media, looking for the next outrage fix?
If you want the whole story and draw your own conclusions from the video, here it is:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuc...eople-in-power-attacking-people-theyve-failed
But the overarching problem is you shouldn't have to watch it yourself. The media should have presented the issue fairly since it was largely non partisan - abortion, Indian land, Catholic school, and a radical black group. What did the media show as "truth"? An old man and a high school kid in a rigged scene.