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Why The Covington Story Still Grinds My Gears More Than A Year Later

At a time when journalism needs integrity, what we're getting instead is performative sanctimony

Jesse Singal
Jan 29, 2020
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Remember the Covington Catholic High School story? That time when everyone could tell a kid was the very embodiment of evil because he grinned in a certain way for 10 or 15 seconds? Not exactly a shining moment for journalism — far from it — and over on the website UnHerd, I’ve got an essay about how how frustrating it is to me that no one seems to have…

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