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Reporter Suspended, Could Lose Job Over What He Said About ‘Young Black Men’ Live on the Air
theblaze.com ^ | 7/15/2014 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 07/15/2014 6:50:35 AM PDT by rktman

News 12 reporter Sean Bergin has been suspended after he argued on the air that the “anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities” is largely the result of “young black men growing up without fathers.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: killers; offensiveness; pccrap
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Geez. Speaking the truth just ain't the same anymore is it. Maybe he and Anthony from the Opie and Anthony show (now just the Opie show?) can get together and start an online show like beck. And the wife/mom/girlfriend of the perp that shot the cop gets more street creds for saying the perp should have taken out more cops at the ambush? Guess she doesn't have a job to lose huh?
1 posted on 07/15/2014 6:50:35 AM PDT by rktman
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local TV news in America is an absolute joke. Besides info on local fires and weather, its total rubbish


2 posted on 07/15/2014 6:52:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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So now, we are not allowed to talk about the many negative impacts of young black men growing up without fathers?? That is now racist????

Is it bigoted if we omit race, and say that there are bad impacts for any children growing up without a father? Or will that be seen as bigoted against women and mothers???

Political correctness may yet kill off our civilization.


3 posted on 07/15/2014 6:52:16 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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FIRE HIM! He dared speak the truth!


4 posted on 07/15/2014 6:53:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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The guy from Opie & Anthony is in a similar fix.

Not that I care per se, but it’s the principle of the thing.


5 posted on 07/15/2014 6:55:02 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s workin’ hard at it. The list of unacceptable words/phrases/terminology/comments grows bigger every day. Pretty soon when someone asks about your car, you better not say you have a “black” car. Guess that would be interpreted as you have one to make you feel powerful over something black. Lib-logic. I can’t make any sense out of it anymore. Yes, it’s getting that ridiculous. I guess the govt funded data proving what the reporter said will now need to altered to say the opposite.


6 posted on 07/15/2014 6:56:23 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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“local TV news in America is an absolute joke. Besides info on local fires and weather, its total rubbish”

My “local” news orginates in Cleveland. The local news could be retitled: Homies behaving badly.


7 posted on 07/15/2014 6:57:28 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Truth, its the new hate speech.


8 posted on 07/15/2014 6:58:48 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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It angers Conservatives when you lie about them, but it infuriates liberals when you tell the truth about them!


9 posted on 07/15/2014 6:59:47 AM PDT by JayAr36 (OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THIS A FREE COUNTRY)
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WTF? You get punished for telling the truth in this country? These urban predators have no family structure to show them right or wrong,suck on the golden welfare teat to buy bling and sneakers, and sell drugs to by weapons and more drugs.We should train our snipers in these cities.


10 posted on 07/15/2014 7:03:00 AM PDT by Renegade
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Such talk is an open and egregious violation of Mintrue newspeak directives


11 posted on 07/15/2014 7:06:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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The Ministry Of Truth says this is not "truth".

He will go down the Memory Hole...

12 posted on 07/15/2014 7:08:23 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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Yes, we will now get punished for telling the truth. It is racist to talk about urban ghetto culture, fatherless feral kids in the ghetto, etc. The race element overrides everything else.

Eric Holder says we are cowards on race discussions.

Gee, I wonder why, Eric, when you see the reaction here. Rather than discuss the content of what was said, rather than discuss whether fatherlessness is a problem in the ghetto, instead we lambast someone who dares to mention the issue.


13 posted on 07/15/2014 7:16:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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Mustn’t. Speak. Truth.


14 posted on 07/15/2014 7:17:12 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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His evaluation was actually wrong, or at least largely wrong.

I don’t have to deal with inner city anything, but much of the anti-cop feeling in this country is due to the way that cops do their job. And it’s not just in the inner city.

We have militarized police forces who break down doors, shoot dogs kids and innocent adults. I suspect the average law abiding citizen is more likely to have a loaded gun pointed at them by a cop than by a criminal.


15 posted on 07/15/2014 7:19:34 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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Our local news is nothing more than Africans killing Africans, with the occasional weather forecast thrown in. Heaven forbid we allow the true condition of our cites to be broadcast.


16 posted on 07/15/2014 7:21:02 AM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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“We were besieged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give media coverage to the life of a cop killer. It’s understandable. We decided to air it because it’s important to shine a light on the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities. This same, sick, perverse line of thinking is evident from Jersey City, to Newark and Patterson to Trenton.”

“It has made the police officer’s job impossible and it has got to stop. The underlying cause of all of this, of course: young black men growing up without fathers. Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject.”

Truer words have never been spoken. And of course he has been suspended and will probably be fired for telling the truth.

He is absolutely right that no one in the news media has the courage to touch the story because if they do they will no longer be in the media.

It is true with almost every story the MSM talks about.

Tell the truth and you will immediately be fired.

There are plenty of liars with degrees in journalism and no honor and integrity willing to take their place.

17 posted on 07/15/2014 7:23:28 AM PDT by detective
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"News 12 reporter Sean Bergin has been suspended after he argued on the air that the “anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities” is largely the result of “young black men growing up without fathers.”"

While he sure has a point about not having fathers, I think it has more to do with the attitude and behavior of cops in inner unarmed cities.

18 posted on 07/15/2014 7:26:00 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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truth....can’t have that now, can we?


19 posted on 07/15/2014 7:28:29 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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I would contend that what he said is not the truth, or not entirely the truth, anyway.

The implication is that if the biological fathers of these young men had stuck around and helped raise them, they would have turned out better.

The problem is that the considerable majority of these “fathers” were irresponsible thugs, which is of course why they didn’t stick around.

Let’s, however, assume they had.

How does having an irresponsible thug around help a boy grow up to be a responsible young man? Is there any evidence that having such a guy around has any positive benefits at all? What are the chances such a “father” would be abusive to the boy, his mother and his siblings?

What this unfortunate reporter meant to say is that young boys raised without a responsible adult father figure are likely to turn out poorly. That IS a fact. But if there are no responsible adult males around, how are they to be provided?


20 posted on 07/15/2014 7:31:13 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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