Covington clash: Everyone’s got an opinion. Maybe that’s the problem

Over the weekend, critics rushed to condemn Mr. Sandmann’s “smirk” and other actions by his teenage classmates, who had traveled from Kentucky to Washington for an anti-abortion march. President Trump called the Covington students “symbols of Fake News.” And in a way (though not in the way he meant), he’s right – because the whole episode is symptomatic of a real challenge for both the media and our society at large. “The nation’s culture is now enmeshed in a new technology that we don’t yet know how to control,” writes the New York Times’s David Brooks.

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