Today in Racism! It’s almost as hard to find a real racist these days as it is to find a serious journalist. Good riddance to the former. As for the plight of the latter . . . they did it to themselves
About 20 people attended the white supremacist rally that got nonstop media coverage last weekend
Sometimes the media just make things up, and when they do we properly call it fake news.
But just as often, the media create news, and this is a slightly different but still dishonest beast. They did it this past weekend in Charlottesville. It’s a case of their deciding that something is going to be treated as big news before it ever happens, and regardless of whether actual events warrant the attention they’ve decided to give it.