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  1. Why use the term “liberal media,” when really it’s just all media. Social media or mass-media. None took the time to get facts surrounding the occurrence before beginning to “report” on it. You also left out the part of the story where some of Sandmann’s classmates were harassing females earlier in the day, (https://www.dailydot.com/irl/covington-boys-video/) and the part where his parents hired a PR firm to pen and release his statement regarding the incident a few days after it happened.

  2. I understand your aim was to bring light to the full truth of this story and to criticize the media’s inaccurate portrayal, but I have some problems with how you went about doing it. The issue is not with the political bias of the reporting news outlets, but with the state of digital journalism in general. News outlets are pressured to prioritize speed over accuracy in order to be the first to break stories in our digital age. The failure of many outlets to acknowledge the involvement of the Black Hebrew Israelites is glaring, but it is not an issue with liberalism or liberal media. I also find an issue with this piece being labelled as opinion. I’m struggling to find a central argument to your points, and you do not provide “what to take away from it” as the title suggests. If this had been written as a hard news story it would have been very good; instead, it feels like you labelled it an opinion piece as an excuse to insert your opinions in unnecessary places. Referring to the parties involved as “dramatic and looking for attention” does nothing to further the story, neither does continually blaming liberalism. Regardless, your writing style is good and you were right to want to address the mishandling of this situation in the media. Keep writing; I look forward to reading your future work.

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