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\nL- Nathan Phillips and R- Nick Sandmann<\/p>\n
\nL- Nathan Phillips and R- Nick Sandmann<\/p>\n
On 18 January 2019, a widely reported confrontation between groups of political demonstrators took place near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The face-off between a teenager in a MAGA hat and Native American activist Nathan Phillips was captured on photos and videos, with media coverage revealed days later that initial media reactions had misrepresented and\/or omitted critical details of the incident.<\/p>\n
This haunts Sandmann to this day.<\/p>\n
By Matt London <\/strong><\/p>\n Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann said that he has lived under a “constant” and “terrible” threat — ever since his image was splashed across television screens and posted on websites and social media platforms worldwide.<\/p>\n In exclusive new interviews with veteran journalist and Fox Nation host Lara Logan, Sandmann opened up about the ongoing fallout from an incident on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2019. The nationally publicized incident has become a case study in journalistic malpractice, critics say.<\/p>\n Sandmann was one of a group of Covington students from Park Hills, Ky., attending the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C., when Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder and activist, was attending the Indigenous Peoples’ March on the same day.<\/p>\n Videos documenting Sandmann’s encounter with Phillips went viral — including some clips that did not show the full incident.<\/p>\n “For Nick Sandmann, he’s going to be tarnished with this stigma forever — that he is some arrogant, racist kid,” Logan said on “Fox and Friends” on Monday. “Because that’s how he was depicted when he was at the Lincoln Memorial… everyone knows him as the ‘Covington kid.'”<\/p>\n Incomplete video clips posted online and initial media coverage prompted widespread accusations that Sandmann and his classmates had approached Phillips and threatened and mocked him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He is having some revenge, though. <\/p>\n Most agenda journalism victims are expected to disappear in shame. But this time it was different. Sandmann sued a range of journalists, including Maggie Haberman, Ana Navarro, and Shaun King, for slurs they threw at him on Twitter. Included in the swath of additional lawsuits by Sandmann were CNN, MSNBC\u2019s parent company, the AP, Gannett, HuffPo, Slate, and The Washington Post. In the words of the suit, they \u201cbrought down the full force of corporate power, influence, and wealth on Nicholas by falsely attacking, vilifying, and bullying him despite the fact that he was a minor child.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Poor kid, I hope he owns them all. CNN has already settled for an undisclosed amount. Read the rest here: Fox News<\/a> and here: The American Conservative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"