Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Below is my column in USA Today on the aftermath of the Jussie Smollett verdict and what the case says about our state of both politics and journalism . As discussed yesterday , some figures and groups are still insisting that people need to believe Smollett regardless of the evidence or the verdict. Despite media figures calling his account “beautiful” and “brave,” seventy-five percent of the public believe that he staged the racist attack . The insistence by some that he is innocent shows how our national dialogue has become decoupled from facts.
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