CNN has reached a settlement with Nick Sandmann, the high school student who sued the network over its coverage of an incident that went viral last year in which he appeared with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial.
A spokesperson for CNN confirmed that a settlement had been reached but declined comment on the details. Sandmann wrote on Twitter, “Yes, We settled with CNN.”
Sandmann sued CNN, The Washington Post and NBCUniversal last year over its coverage of the Jan. 18, 2019 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. In a video that went viral on Twitter, Sandmann and other Covington High School students, who were in D.C. for the March for Life, appeared to be surrounding a Native American activist, Nathan Phillips, who was at the Lincoln Memorial for the Indigenous People’s March.
But a longer version of the video contradicted the notion that the Covington students instigated the...
A spokesperson for CNN confirmed that a settlement had been reached but declined comment on the details. Sandmann wrote on Twitter, “Yes, We settled with CNN.”
Sandmann sued CNN, The Washington Post and NBCUniversal last year over its coverage of the Jan. 18, 2019 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. In a video that went viral on Twitter, Sandmann and other Covington High School students, who were in D.C. for the March for Life, appeared to be surrounding a Native American activist, Nathan Phillips, who was at the Lincoln Memorial for the Indigenous People’s March.
But a longer version of the video contradicted the notion that the Covington students instigated the...
- 1/7/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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