@Timothy_Horton`
The very people doing the reporting share in the same bias, and you can see it in their word choice. In the Dover case you could see it in the Judge’s behavior. He watched Inherit the Wind the night before the trial as background for the case. The trouble is, that is not an accurate account of that trial. It has stuff in it that would curl a modern person’s hair concerning religion.
I have not read the Coppedge case in question. All I know is what David said about the circumstances of his termination.