“Journalism” is a joke nowadays. Pity the young people don’t see this.
Then we might as well shut down Freerepublic.
But you don’t understand. That Gentle Giant was just a baby!
And he was murdered in cold blood by a white cop.
Riot we much!
Fox News just reported a breaking story that US fighters are tracking a “unresponsive aircraft” over the Atlantic. That is all.
What I like to do is respond furiously to the headline without reading the story at all. It’s an old FR tradition. BTT
Why isn’t this in Breaking News?
Why isn’t this in Breaking News?
I have another theory.
In the Zimmerman case, when I first heard about it, I thought it was a white “cop wannabee” shooting an innocent blick child. But as facts came out, I changed my position.
Meanwhile, with the Brown shooting, I pretty much figured Brown brought it on himself.
In both cases, It was based on the facts as initially received. In the case of zimmerman, the first reports were that he was a white neigborhood watch guy that was a bit overzealous and the victim was a black child coming home from seven eleven. With that info, Z looked guilty.
But in the brown case, I heard about the shooting and the video at the convenience store simultaneously. I also shortly after that learned that the cop had been injured. I put two and two together and saw a “typically human” cop confronted by a thug and figured odds were it was a good shooting.
Regarding the Zimmerman case, as facts came out it became clear it was not at all what it had been reported. I completely turned my perception around and was even surprised they were still going to embarrass themselves in a trial. And the trial went exactly as I expected it to. It may be because I’d been reading a LOT on Conservative Treehouse by then.
But on one of my favorite libral sites, many of the liberals started defending zimmerman. I then saw a pattern and it proved correct. In every situation where I asked the question about it, it was clear that the folks who thought zimmerman murdered an innocent black child in cold blood were not only liberals. They were also black.
Fact is, in the middle to upper middle class culture, facts matter. In the poorer US cultures, regardless of race, emotion more rules the day. It’s one reason they are poor. And it’s a big mistake to let them vote.
In the case of the Brown shooting I saw the video and I saw the still of him lying dead in the street - and the timeline.
My opinion was not cast in concrete, but it was going to need some seriously occams razor breaking evidence to change. And, of course, when you bass your opinion on raw facts that form a reasonable picture, more often than not you turn out getting it pretty correct.
Take the Zimmerman case. One shot fired. One. And the dead guy was into street fighting. So the question is, when a fist fight breaks out between a man carrying a concealed weapon and another guy who is unarmed, but younger and bigger than the other guy, who probably started it?
Guys with concealed weapons only start fist fights in movies.
I blame the media 60%. I blame gullible people 40%.
We don’t have to listen or get fired up about anything until more facts come in. No matter what politician or talking head is telling us what to think.