UPDATED: Good, Bad & Ugly: How the Media Covered False Smear of Covington Kids
By Kyle Drennen | January 22, 2019 1:29 PM EST
Before all the facts were known, the media ran with a story accusing pro-life activists from Covington Catholic High School of racism during an altercation with left-wing demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial after the March for Life on Friday. That false narrative began to fall apart almost immediately, once additional video surfaced proving how the original, social media version of the story, was false. NewsBusters has analyzed the coverage and assigned a grade to various prominent media outlets in their handling of the fake news.
Here’s how the broadcast and cable networks, plus key newspapers, covered the story (some of these have been updated since this item was first published on January 22):
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