It's Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

Well, if you were looking at the headlines over the course of the last weekend,

you might be tempted to think that the most important news story was the walkout of students

at Duke University's commencement.

And there are all kinds of issues here

that we need to take a look at.

But the most important thing is that the headlines

told us that Jerry Seinfeld was the commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary degree,

and he who had represented a non-political form of humor, but is now public in his support for Israel

with such a divisive figure that a

sizable number of the graduates walked out of the facility there at Duke

University in protest. This made news all over the world headlines walk out at Jerry Seinfeld

appearance at Duke University commencement. And of course this fit into the

larger media narrative, which isn't false by by the way, in this sense, that you have all kinds of chaos

breaking out on America's elite college and university campuses.

But before we even look at the substance of the story, we need to recognize that much in the story isn't substantial at all.

Because if you are looking at some of the photographs that were sent, if you were looking at some of the social media post if you were looking at the headlines you would think

that of the roughly 7,000 people who were in attendance at the commencement there must have been a

sizable walkout but not only in isolated news stories, but in a source as authoritative as

political, we're told that it was about 30 students who walked out.

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