Because the AVClub is all about beating up on people. The entire reason I am opposed to this kind of schadenfreude is that it sets a bad precedent. Wahlberg made a serious mistake as a teenager and is now seeking forgiveness. He has made numerous public apologies and probably should have apologized to the people he…

I can't find that anywhere. O'Neal gave me a bogus link with two sentences about the assault.

Where did you get the idea that the information was perpetrated by the accuser?

He is usually pretty sharp, but came across looking like an ass.

So he stole the case of beer because the guy carrying it was Viet Namese?

https://screen.yahoo.com/ma…

He mugged a guy for a case of beer and then punched a guy who tried to stop him, yelling obscenities the whole time, like a good Bostonian, almost thirty years ago. But, yeah, committing a violent hate crime and luckily avoiding blinding the guy with one eye pretty much says the same thing. He apologized in 1996 and…

Don't worry, O'Neal apologized for it already. Water under the bridge.

So you are defending the presses ability to publish "errors" due to "laziness" without being called on it?

Thanks for quibbling semantics with me.

Thanks.

Or maybe the journalist who did the original reporting that O'Neal cribbed.

As opposed to a drunk teenager.

*Googles "Marky Mark, public record" *

No, the "press" was corrected by Paul Thompson, a journalist who actually went out and did his job instead of parroting incorrect information.

Hey, O'Neal didn't have to respond. I kind of wish he hadn't.

Smart move.
*makes "drinky drinky" motion*

Did you even read either of those links? Maybe you could have linked the actual Nightline report if you wanted to use it to defend your argument. Here are some quotes from the article I linked: "Wahlberg, now 43, says he was trying to steal two cases of alcohol at the time of the attack, and writes he is 'deeply…

If you read the Vago article, one of the main points that many of the commenters on the AVClub made, aside from the racial motiviation, was that the savagery of the beating is a major factor in how he should be judged. A 16 year old punching some dude is slightly more normal than causing permanent damage to what is…

Ok, I read that link and I don't see where they reported that "fact" directly to his face or where he had a chance to deny it. Why don't you choose to look at another news source that takes a slightly different slant: http://www.nbcnews.com/news…
I don't know, I'm not in the industry, but maybe these two news sources…