Well, this came as a bit of a shock to me, didn’t know the local paper was embroiled in a “national controversy”:

Virginian-Pilot: Pilot stands by handling of attack on staff members

Apparently Fox News “broke the story” a few days ago, and O’Reilly ran a segment last night, about a couple of VP reporters getting attacked by a mob in downtown Norfolk. They got wind of it from a editorial columnist at the Pilot, who’s belching fire and brimstone over the paper not making the attack frontpage news the next day after it happened.

The accusation is that, because the reporters were white and the mob described as black, it was a “hate crime” and the liberals running the paper are running a cover-up to avoid acknowledging that “black-on-white” crime happens in the wake of the Trayvon controversy.