i'm going to stand here. >> reporter: overall nbc of interview was attacked in a softball pr move that nbc jumped on the bandwagon when it tweeted a gay student barred by the covington diocese from speaking at his 2018 graduation is not surprised by the video. the insinuation being covington is anti-gay. except the student wasn't stopped from speaking because of his sexuality but because he submitted his speech too late and he didn't go to covington high school. the new york times reporter who this week wrote about covington students tradition of supporting their sports teams by painting their faces and bodies black ending at the possibility of racism but had the reporter checked her own paper's archives she would have found the 2008 story explaining the so-called blackout games and why they are popular and had 0 to do with racism. we are learning about native