Media ’empowered’ to smear people like Covington students without consequences: Mollie Hemingway

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The media “feels empowered” to smear people like Covington Catholic High School students as there are no consequences for spreading misinformation, the Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway said.

Hemingway told Tucker Carlson on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday that the reason the lawsuits against NBC, CNN and the Washington Post brought by Covington Student Nicholas Sandmann are resonating is because “currently there aren’t any repercussions really for getting stories completely wrong.”

“You are seeing this where the media feels empowered to smear people including in this case a child who had come out to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life and they did this over the course of days,” she said.

“They said false things about this boy and his school that were demonstrably untrue and right now there’s not a lot of accountability for this. They do these false stories, they get ratings, they get money, and they never really are held accountable for it. “

“They said false things about this boy and his school that were demonstrably untrue and right now there’s not a lot of accountability for this. They do these false stories, they get ratings, they get money, and they never really are held accountable for it. “

— Mollie Hemingway

The comments came as Sandmann’s lawyer announced Wednesday a lawsuit against NBCUniversal for a whopping $275 million over the media coverage of the controversy.

Sandmann was at the center of a viral controversy back in January, alongside reports suggesting that he and his classmates had initiated a confrontation with Native American elder Nathan Phillips outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Source: Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News

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