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Re:Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism by fucking_tragedy on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:30PM (#19264994)
> (turns out he had muscled his way into their gathering and was physically intimidating them, but the press ran with a selectively edited video and didn't bother corroborating it)

Looks like you're running with what their PR firm says[1].

[1] https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/21/...

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Re:Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism by rohit2412 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:48PM (#19265207)
Your article says that Nathan Phillips, the activist agrees. There is even a video backing this claim.

What if the PR firm is saying the truth?

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Re:Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism by kosievdmerwe on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:14PM (#19267001)
But that would be a hard pill for some people to swallow as then they'd have to admit they've been misled and acted badly towards a kid.
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Re:Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism by fucking_tragedy on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:26PM (#19266151)
The article says that Nathan Phillips agrees that he was physically intimidating a minor?
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Re:Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism by rubbingalcohol on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:42PM (#19266283)
You're free to split hairs over whether an adult walking up to a kid and beating a drum in his face qualifies as physical intimidation, but I am "running with" my assessment of what the video shows.
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