“The law is the law,” says the crafty lawyer, wearing an anarchy button. He’s about to help three squatting creeps steal the domicile of a sad Native American.
Such is life in 2025 America! Here’s more from FreedomToons.
NBC became the third media-news outlet to settle a defamation lawsuit with Nick Sandmann over coverage of his confrontation with a Native American elder near the Lincoln Memorial in 2019. Sandmann has already settled suits with CNN and The Washington Post. Terms of the NBC settlement are confidential.
Sandmann, then a 16-year-old from Covington, Ky., also has pending lawsuits against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Rolling Stone and Gannett. Sandmann filed the suits after the media outlets wrongly portrayed him in a viral video of the confrontation following the March For Life rally. Here’s more on the story from Vee.
Tim Pool is part of what some call the new media, citizen journalists who work for themselves. Increasingly, such journalists cover things the mainstream media miss.
Pool, who leans left and supported Bernie Sanders, reports whatever he sees on his news channel TimCast. When the media jumped on a video of a grinning Covington High School kid wearing a Trump hat, claiming he was taunting a Native American man, Pool was skeptical. He found a longer clip of the encounter on YouTube and used that to show that the Native American elder approached the kids as they waited for a bus, not the other way around, as had been claimed. There was no evidence that the kids were racist.
In this edition of his blog, John Stossel reports Pool is part of a new wave of independent journalists and thinkers–leftists, centrists, libertarians and conservatives–who use the new media to get the word out. “I’m glad that gives us more options,” he says. Here’s more.
