Why do you think that isnt front page news? "Black Supposedly Israelite's Extremists scream extreme obscenities at white children, then march a native american at them" shoulda been the main headline.
Instead we saw "maga hat wearing white kids harrass native american and cancel their peace walk" newlines.
You dont think thts a little bit odd?
Because that's what was on video. While later video showed other people behaving poorly and other people behaving sub-optimally in retroactive view, nothing later actually excused the behavior of that group of kids. It's not like one wrong makes all the others an invalid subject.
It's not like waking around chanting with a drum while being a Native American means it's reasonable to make "tomahawk chops" while jeering, mimicking the chant, behaving like a-hole teens. It's not like some other group mutually antagonizing the a-hole teens somehow excuses their reaction to the old vet. These are all separate things.
Now, do we want "the" mean - aka any, not just leftwing media - to get things right more often? To wait for the full story? No, as a group, we don't. As a
group, we seem to want immediate updates on everything, just like quite a lot of us seem to want to hear about our friends' every thoughts on facebook or via text or whatever. Media serves a market.
Add the two together, and you get (1) the kids were in the wrong no matter who else was in the wrong, so any inaccuracies are being misused, (2) those who consume TV news and twitter news need to take a look in the mirror. The Hated Media does this because it's a huge market. Fail to meet it, someone else meets it. And public-sponsored news gets attacked for supposedly having a pro-government bias to as secure funding.
If you all want to join me in waiting for various print media of multiple leans to finalize a story before making any kind of formalized conclusion, great! We'll need many tens of millions of people to do it too, sure, but it'll be a start.
But we won't. So this won't stop. And yes, quite a lot of it happens. It's happening more frequently. I'd appreciate the input of someone who's been in journalism for quite some time, but it smells to me like the window for maneuvering shrinks in a direct relation to expansion of mass communication.