Posted on 04/19/2013 4:50:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It started with the false claim that a Saudi man was a suspect (he was actually a victim), something the networks ran with (including the rumour that he had been thrown into a cage) and were then forced to retract. Then there was a second “attack” at the JFK library that turned out to be an unrelated fire. Pundits weighed in uselessly, calling for the deaths of all Muslims in the world on Twitter or else somehow laying responsibility at the feet of the otherwise peaceful and democratic Tea Party (was Sarah Palin anywhere near the scene – we have the right to know). In the words of Michael Moynihan, “Three days in, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of who has been wrong about what.” Indeed, it’s been a screw-up of epic proportions.
But where the mainstream media missed something, social media was there to plug the gaps – accurately or otherwise. It was a Facebook user, David Green, who first posted a helpful high-res photograph of the suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Pictures from the siege in Watertown were later captured by ordinary Joes and put up on Youtube, only for the networks to seize and distribute them. Amateur detectives abounded. Images of the suspects released by the FBI were posted on social networking sites, allowing people to post up their own pics of folks who looked a bit like them and so track their movements. Some evil and some good came of it. Poor 17-year-old Sala Barhoum – who was entirely innocent – was fingered by Reddit readers and ended up on the front page of the New York Post as a chief suspect.....
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The state press did all it could to get the public focused away form their philosophical allies.
It’s been the messiest since, well, the last big story.
It’s been the messiest since, well, the last big story.
Cops run over there, run over there, no wait back over there, no its there, no there..........back and forth back and forth here there everywhere.........
The whole time I am watching them I hear the Key Stone Cops theme.
Seems like the media and left wanted so badly for it to be right wingers, they couldn’t see any other possibility.
Chris Mathews is a hack.
I despise the guy.He regurgitates his own drafted daily script(aka crap) nightly.Massages 2 or 3 loony guests with his same ideology and call that journalism?Nope
Welp hes been ad-libbing these past few days and he comes across as the bumbling washed up drunk that he is.
THANK GOD FOR LIVE TV
Exactly. From the top of the Honky Hut down to the reporter on the street. They wanted it so bad to be a right wing white person.
Yeah they were piss poor during Sandy Hook too.
Exactly, they start with the outcome and try to fit the story to it. I’m going to see some lib in-laws this weekend. Can’t wait for one of them to say something snarky about it.
Nothing can equal the surreal media created about Katrina and the dome, the most bizarre reporting that was being completely made, up fake everything, reported in great detail and interviews, and yet it was inside of a building that anyone could walk into and move around freely.
Surely it gives aid and comfort to our enemies to see how inept the media and law enforcement has been in this scenario. Had the perps not given themselves away, they could have disappeared without being caught.
Well, when you sell a false reality for years, shout down anyone who disagrees, play the race card every chance you get... you’re kind of going out on a limb.
They bury and hide reality every day on small things (Fort Hood was a “small thing” donchaknow). But when reality hits in a big, messy, wall-to-wall, civilian casualty kind of way, yeah. It gets a little messy.
The American populace will soon forget and go back to Dancin’ With The Stars and Kim Kardashian’s butt.
The media has been HORRIBLE!!! Bill Hemmer said the pics they showed the media was NOT THE SAME as the pics they put out at 5:00m last night!!! OMG!!!
And the Perp went thru the Police last night in the stolen SUV!!! WHY THE HELL didn’t they KILL HIM went he went thru them???? Political Correctness???
D’oh, I had almost forgotten that.
Lots and lots of ‘journalists’ didn’t come out with flying colors.
Agreed
It’s very difficult to turn two chechen muslim brothers into Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, but they *are* going to try.
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