WASHINGTON POST ADMITS INACCURACIES IN ITS COVINGTON CATHOLIC REPORTING, SUBJECT OF $250 MILLION LAWSUIT

3/1/19 WaPo Admits Inaccuracies in Its Reporting About Covington High School Students--Covington student Nick Sandmann filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper

The Washington Post issued an editor's note Thursday admitting inaccuracies in its initial reporting on a January incident involving Native American protesters, high school students from Covington, Ky., and a group known as Black Hebrew Israelites. The note sweeps away the provocative details that turned the story into a phenomenon, including the accusation that Covington students prevented Native American activist Nathan Phillips from moving away.

"A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial," the statement begins. "Subsequent reporting, a student’s statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story — including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict.  READ MORE HERE.

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