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Memphis newspaper apologizes for accurate, yet 'racist' headline
foxnews.com ^ | July 15, 2016 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 07/16/2016 2:33:26 PM PDT by PROCON


A newspaper in Memphis quickly apologize after protestors complained about its choice of headline in the wake of the deadly police shooting in Dallas.

“Gunman targeted whites,” read the lead story headline in the Commercial Appeal, a member of the USA Today network. The headline was accurate, as Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson explicitly talked about wanted to kill white police officers before he was eliminated via robot bomb.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: apology; blm; dallas; mediabias; memphis; micahjohnson; newspaper; racism
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Accurate but............Racist!

*shaking my head*

1 posted on 07/16/2016 2:33:26 PM PDT by PROCON
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The press apologizes for publishing the truth.

Pat Caddell called it.

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an "enemy of the people" Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: "These people have no honor!" Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

CADDELL ON BENGHAZI: PRESS HAS FAILED THE COUNTRY, FACTS WILL PUT OBAMA IN DEEP TROUBLE May 13, 2014

The MSM are enemies of the people!

2 posted on 07/16/2016 2:36:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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3 posted on 07/16/2016 2:37:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: PROCON

The media is in complete submission to the hate-America left.


4 posted on 07/16/2016 2:37:58 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: PROCON

Is it racist then when reporting a crime and the race is not mentioned hinting (darkly) that the perpetrator was black?


5 posted on 07/16/2016 2:38:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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As someone posted here the other day, it’s an Alice in Wonderland world.

All Lives Matter = racist

Black Lives Matter = not racist


6 posted on 07/16/2016 2:42:04 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: PROCON

Newspaper apologizes for publishing the truth instead of a lie. I can’t say that I’m surprised.


7 posted on 07/16/2016 2:45:42 PM PDT by euram
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Who would have known? Is Memphis one of those places where truth is unwelcome?


8 posted on 07/16/2016 2:47:02 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence and Paul Nehlen 2016)
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To: TigersEye
From the article:

One of the protest leaders, Pastor Earle Fisher of the Memphis Grassroots Organization Coalition, said following a meeting with Commercial Appeal {Newspaper} employees that the situation highlighted “the need for cultural sensitivity training.”

Off to reeducation camp with you!

9 posted on 07/16/2016 2:47:31 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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Just imagine what the reporting would have been like if the races were reversed. Tells you everything you need to know about the communist media.


10 posted on 07/16/2016 2:48:17 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: I want the USA back

The propagandistic left never wants to allow the Sheeple to have all the real facts to make up their own minds. Similar to the French authorities who decided to cover up the torture and mutilations at Bataclan in Paris, last November. We don’t want the Sheeple to know the facts if they might get riled up against BLM or Islamists or..... another politically protected group.


11 posted on 07/16/2016 2:50:26 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: ladyjane

Bingo - every news story I’ve read re: crime that when the race is not mentioned it’s a black. The stories have in the first line ‘white’ ....then too, ever notice in those ID theft and home break-in adverts it’s always a white guy shown? No black no Hispanic no Asian. I thought diversity was the key word and equal opportunity in media and all that...


12 posted on 07/16/2016 2:50:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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13 posted on 07/16/2016 2:51:53 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: PROCON

Memphis is the next New Orleans.


14 posted on 07/16/2016 2:52:30 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: PROCON

Truth is racist. Lies are progressive.


15 posted on 07/16/2016 2:56:03 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Of course if it was a white person who stated he was targeting blacks and they didn’t report it, they would be up i arms about that as well.


16 posted on 07/16/2016 3:01:11 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: PROCON

This is pathetic.


17 posted on 07/16/2016 3:04:36 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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It’s more than pathetic. It’s Orwellian.


18 posted on 07/16/2016 3:08:34 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: PROCON

It is not racist to point out a black murderer targeted victims because they are white.


19 posted on 07/16/2016 3:14:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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“Memphis newspaper apologizes for accurate, yet ‘racist’ headline”

The consequences for technical correctness in journalism.


20 posted on 07/16/2016 3:17:03 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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