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A popular theme in the Twitterverse this week is "Journalism is dead." Two events apparently driving the disgust du jour with media incompetence and dishonesty are BuzzFeed's story about President Trump allegedly asking Michael Cohen to commit perjury, and the group of boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky accused of racist behavior at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
The BuzzFeed "bombshell" was defused when special counsel Robert Mueller's office issued a statement flatly contradicting the story. Authors Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold admitted that they had not personally seen the documents they referenced. Additional doubt has been cast on the story's credibility by Leopold's record of inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.

But the BuzzFeed bust is nothing compared with the Covington Catholic conflagration. A group of boys from the high school were caught on video smiling and chanting as Native American Nathan Phillips — said to be a Vietnam veteran — drummed in front of them. A since-changed New York Times headline read, "Boys in 'Make America Great Again' Hats Mob Native Elder at March for Life." Predictably, the social media mobs piled on, accusing the boys of Trump-inspired racism and white supremacy, calling for them to be doxxed, punched in the face, fed into a woodchipper and burned alive in their school. Covington Catholic High School was forced to close in the face of threats. In a particularly absurd twist, the family of a young man who resembles Covington student Nick Sandmann (front and center in the video) was targeted and threatened with violence...

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