In January, a television news crew with CBS Baltimore showed up at the home of a high school principal named Eric Eiswert, looking for an interview.
Once the crew arrived, they didn’t record any newsworthy footage whatsoever. Eric Eiswert wasn’t even home. Nevertheless, CBS went ahead and aired very clear images of the man’s house on their evening broadcast.
They did that for one reason, which is that a mob demanded it. At the time, Eiswert was accused of making anti-black comments, on tape, in front of several administrators. Through a representative, Eiswert had already denied making the comments, but the media didn’t care. It was the kind of story the media loves to report — a white principal at a struggling, mostly black school had supposedly validated all of their paranoia about white supremacy. So without verifying the recording in any way, the media immediately went…
