Oberlin College newspaper editorial blames 'increasingly authoritarian country' for school's legal trouble

Oberlin College newspaper editorial blames 'increasingly authoritarian country' for school's legal trouble

• Oberlin College's student newspaper published an editorial taking aim at the media's coverage of the Oberlin College defamation case.
• The editorial board also cited an "increasingly authoritarian country."

Oberlin College's student newspaper editorial board blasted national media coverage of the Gibson’s Bakery trial, saying that it “misses the mark,” and that the ruling is part of an “increasingly authoritarian country.”
...Members of the editorial board “identified three of the key ways that existing coverage has skewed of misrepresented events leading up to the trial.”
First, the board claims that Gibson’s employees have had a pretty good amount of control in the media because the initial police report was “wildly prejudiced in favor of Gibson’s.” 
They claim that there was no perspective from any of the three African Americans in the police report.
“This omission is meaningful — particularly in a country with a long and shameful history of manipulating testimony and evidence to criminalize people of color, especially Black people,” the board stated.”
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