NBC News Continues to Lie by Omission in Tasia Fortune Murder Case

A third suspect has now been charged in the killing of Tasia Fortune. That should be big news. But NBC News and the rest of the cable chorus are treating it like a footnote. Why? Because the quick outrage was that this was a “lynching.” The follow-up undermines that story. So they leave it alone. The lie by omission is the point.

Look at what actually happened. Fortune was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Democrats and their media allies jumped in and called it proof that racist lynchings are back. Then the facts arrived. Most of those other hanging deaths were ruled suicides. Fortune’s own case has now produced multiple arrests, not a mob of white supremacists. The real story is probably more personal and more tragic than the national narrative. A murder charge is a big deal. It demands a new set of questions. But that is harder to fit into an “America is evil” slot.

We are not saying every suspicious death deserves a shrug. We are saying the media should correct the record with the same passion they used to sensationalize it. They don’t, because correcting it means admitting they were wrong. They weren’t confused. They were pushing a story. When new evidence breaks, they hope you are not paying attention. They were wrong. They just won’t say it. That is not journalism. It is a disgrace.