When A Video Isn’t The Whole Story

From Scott Simon at National Public Radio:

We live in times of instant mass outrage. Someone does something, says something or is seen doing something and they can be demonized with a click. The next time you might be tempted, think of this:

In the fourth inning of Sunday’s game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, the Cubs’ first base coach tossed a foul ball to a smiling youngster in the stands who wore a Cubs hat endearingly too large for him. The kid bobbled the baseball. What people saw next in video clips that zapped around the world was a man with close-cropped hair, who sat behind the boy, scoop up the baseball and give it to the woman next to him.