Posted on 07/06/2013 12:19:03 PM PDT by marktwain
Bias: Evidence revealed so far in the Trayvon Martin murder trial shatters the media narrative that shooter George Zimmerman acted as a rabid racist hunting down an angelic black boy.
For a full week last year after the tragedy, NBC "Nightly News" and "Today" ran audio tape of Zimmerman allegedly telling a 911 dispatcher, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."
To an audience that didn't know better, that was damning evidence — a seemingly open-and-shut case of racial profiling. Only, it was a frame-up.
NBC producers doctored the recording to portray Zimmerman as a bigot. In the unedited 911 call, the dispatcher asks Zimmerman to describe Martin's skin color. Yet NBC made it seem as if Zimmerman targeted him because he was black and edited the exchange to look like he believed blacks in general are up to no good.
Other examples of biased media coverage included:
• ABC News originally claiming Zimmerman had no visible signs of injury based on a fuzzy video that later, when enhanced, clearly showed wounds to his head.
• CNN isolating part of a 911 call and speculating Zimmerman could be heard in the background calling Martin a racial slur, when in fact he did no such thing.
• Networks broadcasting photos of Martin as a pre-teen, ignoring the social-media photos of the 17-year-old smoking, shooting the middle finger and glowering at the camera with gold teeth.
Major media also ignored Martin's criminal history.
At the time of the shooting, he was visiting Zimmerman's townhouse complex in Sanford, Fla., from Miami, where he'd been suspended from school after officials found burglary tools and allegedly stolen jewelry in his backpack.
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Nothing “high tech” about it. They’re just lying about a thug who got shot attacking a neighborhood watch volunteer.
Why I rarely watch TV news.....when I do it’s for rare emergencies or for laughs.....
Can I ask a stupid question?
If there is rioting as a result of the verdict, how does that enhance the image of black people? Did it enhance the image of black people when they rioted over the Rodney King verdict? Did it enhance the image of black people during all of the race riots of the ‘60s?
Why are liberals seemingly okay with the possibility of rioting? Isn’t that bigoted of them to just assume that blacks will riot if provoked?
Maybe I’m missing something of the narrative?
Yeah, that's why I'm so sympathetic to Media reporters and news crews these days.
Networks broadcasting photos of Martin as a pre-teen, ignoring the social-media photos of the 17-year-old smoking, shooting the middle finger and glowering at the camera with gold teeth. Major media also ignored Martin's criminal history.
In the cause of fairness (to offset the unrelenting continuing media bias)…did little George Zimmerman even have a chance with Trayvon Martin???
Liberals will deny they assume any such thing. And they will be simultaneously thinking, "Our course the darkies will riot! It's how we bred them!"
A real liberal wag might quote Patrick Henry: "I have only the light of experience to guide me."
It's not a stupid question, it's a common sense question in Bizarro World.
The narrative is: "See, Blacks are still slaves and subject to the whims of racist White monsters that have absolute license in the racist evil United States.
Have you beat your slaves again today?
Why are liberals seemingly okay with the possibility of rioting? Isn’t that bigoted of them to just assume that blacks will riot if provoked?
It’s not a bad question at all. In my own opinion it’s not just OK, it’s a desired action. Not a reaction mind you, a Direct Action. Riots allow them to pass more onerous laws on the law-abiding. The Thugs and criminals just laugh at more laws.
The thugs can be considered to be shock-troops. They go in and break up anything that gets in the way. The others that follow-on, (and you can use your imagination here,) are the ones to worry about, they are the ones who will cause lasting damage and pain.
I think the media is trying to push this into riots so they have something exciting to report on.
Riots divert attention from Obama’s scandals. Plain fact.
I think the media is trying to push this into riots so they have something exciting to report on.
Well certainly...as reporting the anti Obama protests, riots in Egypt/Kenya does not accommodate their agendas.
It's also bigoted of them to think 17-year-old Trayvon's gangsta picture will scare people. He scares them. So they show little Trayvon.
Yep, I know I grew tired of seeing the 13 year old Trayvon, when that’s not how he looked when this incident happened. Clearly he was a gang banger in training, but someone, somewhere, decided his 13 year old picture should be used.
Can even the liberals deny bias with evidence such as the younger picture of Trayvon being used, the doctored 911 tape, and the omission of the images of Zimmerman’s head wounds???? Why would an unbiased media make all of these clearly biased decisions on how to present the case to their viewers, if there was no bias at all involved???
Not to mention the fact that all we heard was that St. Trayvon was coming back with iced tea. In reality, it was a can of WATERMELON JUICE. Even the facts are not discussed openly if they are not PC.
Good question. One part of the answer is that because libs are elitists, they really don't expect to be impacted by the rioting that hopefully won't occur in their part of town. So what if others have their homes or businesses trashed or burned down or are even hurt or killed as a result of riots? If it doesn't directly impact the libs, it doesn't matter.
Another part of the answer is that, needless to say, libs control the MSM, and the media LOVES riots. The "journalists" get to jockey for position to report it and appear relevant while having the opportunity to endlessly analyze and place blame on the victims and of course those evil, racist Republicans.
A third answer - related to the first - is that libs have no real problem with thugs taking and destroying stuff as long as the thugs don't take the lib's stuff. They don't believe in holding criminals accountable for their actions. That would be "blaming the victim". So, rioters (the real victims) taking other peoples’ stuff is OK, and is certainly OK with the entitled crowd that sees rioting as an opportunity to steal and destroy things with impunity.
The communist cabal is pressing hard to force our culture into violence. All of this is intended to destabilize the nation in order to bring about martial law.
There have been hundreds of black on white racially motivated attacks this year. A white backlash will allow the tyrants who are fomenting strife to strike hard and with extreme prejudice.
I’m looking at the two pictures of Trayvon Martin here:
The bottom picture has a tattoo on left arm. The upper picture does not show a tattoo. ME said that the tattoos were on his right arm.
Can anyone explain —
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