USA TODAY: Kyle Rit­ten­house Cam­pus Speech­es Raise ‘Free Speech’ Ques­tions

This will grab your atten­tion. At the bot­tom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this head­line:

Shoot­er Rittenhouse’s tour draws out­rage
Col­lege gun-rights events raise ques­tions about free speech and its impact

USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “rais­es ques­tions”? The online head­line was even stronger:

Kyle Rit­ten­house, dead­ly shoot­er, col­lege speak­er? A cam­pus gun-rights tour sparks out­rage

As in: Who’s approv­ing this speech on cam­pus? A video in the online sto­ry shows “hun­dreds of pro­test­ers” at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mem­phis. “Stu­dents cel­e­brat­ed his depar­ture with live music and danc­ing on cam­pus.” They forced Rit­ten­house to leave ear­ly. This is a tri­umph in the medi­a’s eyes? 
Reporter Cybele Mayes-Oster­man sound­ed like an edi­to­r­i­al writer from the begin­ning:

Kyle Rit­ten­house is not a typ­i­cal col­lege cam­pus speak­er.
In 2020, at the age of 17, he took an AR-15-style rifle to a Black Lives Mat­ter demon­stra­tion and fired it, killing two peo­ple and injur­ing a third. Rit­ten­house said he pulled the trig­ger …