Since we expect a higher standard from the old guard of the news media, the damage is greater.
Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts: Denying existence of mental illness risks dangerous decline in treatment
Stigmatizing those who seek help for disorders could lead to more mass killings by unstable people.
Leonard Pitts: It takes Europe to remind Fox when it’s too sly for its own good
To Americans, it’s normal that a news network works as the propaganda arm of extremist ideology.
Leonard Pitts: No one has a right never to be offended
If we censor expression because it’s vile, we make people want to seek out that which is banned.
Leonard Pitts: Jeb Bush’s retake on gay marriage comment makes for watery soup
Though much of the media calls his recalibrated quote ‘conciliatory,’ it lacks respect for fundamental rights.
Leonard Pitts: Rainbow coalition sustains protest against police shootings
The staying power of the protests raises the tantalizing question: Is this the birth of a movement?
Leonard Pitts: Police encounters with two wielding guns illustrate essence of privilege
A white man is neither shot nor arrested but a 12-year-old black boy is fatally shot within seconds.
Leonard Pitts: Seriously, Bill Cosby in danger of being remembered as a serial rapist?
We can only struggle with our sense of disappointment, betrayal and amazement.
Leonard Pitts: What people do in the name of God
The killing of Peter Kassig and courage of his parents show the extremes.