Last week Carol Feineman, managing editor of four Gold Country Media papers, provided her readers with an important piece of information that should reverse a hasty and ill-informed decision.
Pastor Casey Tinnin has come under attack following a hit-piece by a notorious spreader of disinformation. Courtesy Casey Martinez Tinnin
Last week Carol Feinman, managing editor of four Gold Country Media papers, provided her readers with an important piece of information that should reverse a hasty and ill-informed decision.
In late March, the Western Placer Unified School District, the Roseville Joint Union High School District and the Placer Union High School District banned an organization that provides services to LGBTQ+ students from their campuses. The districts did so after viewing a video made by an organization known as Project Veritas.
The video targeted Rev. Casey Tinnin, pastor of the Loomis Basin Congregational United Church of Christ and founder of the support group known as The Landing Spot.
As Feinman told her readers, Project Veritas’ video creators “twisted Tinnin’s words into making it seem like he was encouraging students to lie to parents.”
Local school-board leaders could have easily learned that Project Veritas is far-right activist group known for its deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations. A 2017 academic study reports that “Project Veritas is a “flak mill that, using media, has set out to professionally damage people and organizations across almost a decade.”
Read ‘We need The Landing Spot but not Project Veritas’ on goldcountrymedia.com
