Today, what I consider two really big news stories broke.

[conuly]

One concerning an actor who apparently faked his own hate crime, and the other concerning a member of the Coast Guard who was apparently planning a massive terrorist attack, explicitly because he's a huge bigot against minorities.

I'm a little perplexed by the proportion of coverage these two stories are getting in my news sources. Not perplexed. More like disturbed.

Comments

[heron61]

I'm seriously not trusting the Chicago cops wrt Smollett - they have a history of covering up hate crimes - also, while it does look suspicious, and someone may have set it up, there's no solid evidence that Smollett wasn't the victim of someone who paid guys to beat him up.

[conuly]

That's a depressing point.