In ‘Blind Side’ spat, race-obsessed media went wildly wrong

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Former NFL player Michael Oher claims the Tuohys tricked him into signing a conservatorship, paving the way for the family to earn millions by telling his life story through the film “The Blind Sid…

And those dynamics alone were enough for the corporate media to declare Oher a victim of the Tuohys upon a petition he filed Monday.

But asking those questions would require corporate journalists to resist the emotional urge to immediately pick a side in an allegation, and risk missing out on an opportunity to capitalize on racial tensions. In the 2011 release, Oher explained why he signed documents to make the Tuohys his legal conservators:

Yet, 13 years later, Oher says 2023 brought upon him the appalling realization that he was under a conservatorship.

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