{"id":9686,"date":"2019-02-03T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:58:16","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-046-the-covington-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/9686","title":{"rendered":"DMS 046 &#8211; The Covington test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DMS-046-Covington-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9690\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/DMS\/DMS-046-190130-The-Covington-Test.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>On Jan 18 in front of Washington DC\u2019s Lincoln Memorial, a remarkable newsworthy event did not happen. Consequently, it became a top news story.  Remarkable!<\/p>\n<p>So remarkable, that it should be referenced in all future tests relating to the credibility of journalism itself. In fact, suggests Robert in his conversation with Danielle, it should be referred to as <strong>the \u2018Covington Test,\u2019<\/strong> in honor of Covington Catholic High School student <strong>Nicholas Sandmann<\/strong> who became a symbol of the media\u2019s disgraceful abandonment of its traditional role as a source of reliable information.  <\/p>\n<p>Having earlier attended the \u2018March for Life\u2019 rally barely acknowledged by the media, Sandmann found himself thrust into the court of public opinion, <strong>judged guilty of the \u201cface crime of smiling while white,\u201d<\/strong> as Danielle describes the media spin.<\/p>\n<p>Though merely waiting for a bus to take him and his fellow Covington students back home, he found himself caught in a controversy that could become a defining point in the phenomenon of \u2018fake news,\u2019 as well as represent a possible turning point regarding the future of journalism itself.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the devil in the details, the full context of Sandmann\u2019s story uncovers <strong>a truly inconvenient truth about the state of media reporting today.<\/strong> Despite inescapable evidence provided by hundreds of private video cameras having recorded a \u2018media reported\u2019 event, many of the once-credible mainstream media giants nevertheless chose to report fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Driven to a point of incompetence and malice due to irrational hatreds and prejudices, this \u2018media\u2019 has demonstrated that \u2018what you see depends on what you believe,&#8217; a cognitive process based on the \u2018primacy of consciousness,\u2019 a defining characteristic of the Left.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, news stories increasingly proving to be reliable originate from those operating on a \u2018primacy of existence,\u2019 where facts trump feelings, and objectivity is a \u2018Covington test\u2019 applied to any news report that\u2019s Just Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan 18 in front of Washington DC\u2019s Lincoln Memorial, a remarkable newsworthy event did not happen. Consequently, it became a top news story. Remarkable! So remarkable, that it should be referenced in all future tests relating to the credibility of journalism itself. 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