Posted on 06/12/2013 3:57:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
As the George Zimmerman trail progresses with the selection of the jury, media has renewed its coverage of the issue which can at times border on obsessive. Last Friday night, Black Entertainment Television (BET) decided to throw their hat into the already incredibly crowded ring and provide their version of news coverage of the George Zimmerman trial and preceding events in a half-hour special entitled, Justice for Trayvon: Our Son Is Your Son. The title plays off of a quote by Trayvon’s mother Sybrina that was made at a rally in support of her son.
The entire controversy centers on the 2012 shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin by then neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman and the ensuing lawsuit by the state of Florida. The prosecution charged Zimmerman with murder in the second degree while he claims to have shot Martin in self-defense after being attacked by the teen.
The BET coverage of the issue was biased in favor of the young African-American teen and claimed that the shooting was racially motivated, that Trayvon was suspected of wrongdoing and subsequently shot simply because of this race. The programming continuously showed coverage of Trayvon’s parents and their national campaign to proclaim their son’s complete innocence in the court of public opinion.
BET ‘News’ Special Has Already Convicted Zimmerman
The show also included several taped interviews conducted by former newscaster Emmett Miller with their lawyer, and even celebrity actor Jamie Foxx who showed their support of the prosecution and belief in the guilt of George Zimmerman. The brief interview with Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara seemed to be extremely edited as to not include any substantial support of Zimmerman’s actions that night and even included questioning of Zimmerman’s credibility in his own defense.
This special serves to perfectly represent exactly what the coverage of this issue should not be. Coverage should not be geared toward convincing the public of the guilt or innocence of one side or the other prior to the trial being held. This only contributes to the inability of the case to find unbiased jurors to fairly decide the fate of George Zimmerman and causes the public to jump to conclusions about what side they support while only being exposed to very few concrete facts in the case.
If coverage of the issue must continue in the media, it should be presented in as unbiased a manner as possible. Instead of showing gratuitous coverage of supporters of Martin with very little coverage of the other side of the issue, as the BET special did, the media needs to present the facts of the case along with any pertinent developments in the case and then to step back and allow the public to decide their opinions on the case for themselves as the trial progresses. This sentiment also should apply to people who may support Zimmerman. References that might imply either side’s guilt or innocence should be tabled in the media which will allow the facts in the case to speak for themselves.
Screw BET.
Black lynch mobs - how ironic
“Justice for Trayvon: Our Son Is Your Son.”
Not my Son! I raised my children right, no drugs, no gangs, no crap! Oh, but I guess that’s because they are so fortunate being second generation AMERICANS and not taught to suck at the public teat because it is OWED to them! We don’t owe jack to anyone, come from people enslaved more than once but expect nothing that hard work won’t earn!!
What if the jury brings back a not guilty verdict?
BET: Keep those uppity Hispanics in their place!
LA 1992 version 2.0.
The next time I punch BET on my TV will be the first time.
So, is there a WET? I think I remember tuning in during White History Month.
I have have blocked BET on my satellite ever since they allow you to do it. I’ll unblock it when they put a channel called WET on it.
Bammy Entertainment Network
hasn’t everyone in the media?
Maybe this is why a lot of blacks get killed in robberies, they don’t believe in self defense. /s
Riots. But as long as they burn their own stores....
This man will not get a fair trial, and that is sad. Our judicial system has been corrupted.
Should we be buying stock in Skittles?
“Trayvon was executed for W-W-B in a G-C. Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”
—Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Georgia)
This is all about "Get Whitey" now, and it's passed the point where blacks cared at all about being seen as fair-minded.
And that's not even bringing up the issue of Zimmermann's own greatly various ethic ancestry. It's a joke to call him "white" when in fact he is what Caribbean Spanish-speakers (I'm not sure about his Peruvian forebears) would call castizo. He has white, Indian, and black ancestry.
Which means the mob has redefined "black" = "thug culture", or simply "blacker than you".
It is really terrible what liberals have done to our nation.
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