THANK YOU, For the post.
Posted on 12/06/2012 7:43:04 PM PST by marktwain
(CNN) -- George Zimmerman, charged in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Florida boy, sued NBC Universal on Thursday for using "the oldest form of yellow journalism" by editing an audio tape of his 911 call to make him sound racist, the lawsuit said.
Zimmerman is seeking "damages in excess of the jurisdictional limit" in Seminole County Circuit Court in Florida, where the lawsuit is filed.
Zimmerman, who is Hispanic and is charged with second-degree murder, is accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, who was African-American. The February incident has provoked national controversy.
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Maybe his team can follow the lead of James Garner who broke through this legal brickwall back in the 1960’s...
Nope, Zimmerman is German on his dad’s side and Hispanic/black on his mom’s side.
“white” George Zimmerman is more black (1/4th) than “indian” Elizabeth Warren (1/32th)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2882435/posts
George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts
George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts
George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2876518/posts
See, that’s the thing - there isn’t really a boundary between the two. If you want to be influential but you don’t want to do anything, you have to make talk seem more important than action. If you can do that you can attract an audience which you can then deliver to advertisers, which is how you monetize your influence. But promoting your own influence is sine qua non.Journalists promote their own influence by warning the public of “dangers” which it wouldn’t know about otherwise. Of course you have the advantage in perceiving these dangers, especially if you make them up out of whole cloth. The “danger” posed by George Zimmerman is that he “is an armed bigot who will shoot you for no reason if you aren’t white.” You wouldn’t know that if journalism - all of journalism, actually, not just NBC - didn’t tell you (why would you, since it actually isn’t true??).
I’m delighted that Z. is suing NBC; I would have done so the day after that calumny was aired. But this affair is actually a golden opportunity, precisely because its effects are so awful. Zimmerman - actually, all non-blacks - are severely damaged by the promotion of the trope aired by NBC (and it actually doesn’t do blacks as a whole any favors, because while it promotes paranoia among blacks it causes suspicion among whites who have to consider the possibility that the black before them might be out for “revenge for Martin”). Zimmerman personally can obviously adduce great harm. And I emphasize the fact that NBC was merely acting as part of the pack of journalistic institutions when it committed that most egregious fraud by editing the tape the way it did. The other institutions were convicting Zimmerman in the press long before that.
And, not to be conspiratorial about it but just to be factual, all major journalism institutions are in cahoots. They are formally associated. Ever hear of the Associated Press?
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam SmithThe Associated Press newswire is a continuous, 24/7 virtual meeting of the membership of the AP which has been uninterrupted since the Civil War. It is impossible that the result could be anything other than that all member institutions should go along and get along - meaning, they cooperate in exaggerating the importance of journalism. They cooperate in promoting the fiction of “journalistic objectivity.” And they do that precisely by homogenizing journalism, and calling their unity “objectivity.”Granted that if they all were objective, it would seem natural that objectivity would be the same for all - but where is the guarantee that unity is because of objectivity, rather than because of common motive? There is none. The reality is that objectivity is difficult or impossible, and can only be attempted by starting with an open analysis of your own motives and interests. But that is precisely the opposite of claiming to actually be objective. It is also the opposite of joining an organization (such as the AP or a member institution thereof) which you know will claim objectivity for you, even if you don’t openly claim it for yourself.
The conclusion is that journalism as an institution is not without its own peculiar interests, and that it does not actually try to attain objectivity. All claims to the contrary are propaganda. It is not merely NBC but all of the Associated Press which should be sued. Sued into oblivion.
Ya gotta wonder how they can be so cold, as to gin up false sensation. It ain’t just personal to Zimmerman. It’s the way they address the whole world.
I think they did it because they thought they would be “covered”. Their Political “bed-mates” would protect them... Or else.
I would hope that their would be some way to use RICO on these so-called News organizations in this case.
The case was picked up by the Obama campaign. Axelrod needed an issue to cement the black vote since Obama’s policies have devastated and will continue to devastate them. Look at what Cook County Democrats have done for blacks over the last 100 years.
...be able to get Brian Williams as your butler ...
That sitzenspritzer? *spit*
Don't forget MENSA member Benjamin Chump.
Under US Census Bureau definitions, he would actually be a black hispanic.
Punitive damages.
A month’s net income for NBC. What’s that? 100-200 million? That’s what I’d award Zimmerman.
Also make NBC news workers go through sensitivity training for prejudice against white Hispanics.
How about sensitivity training for prejudice against Caucasians? When this started, they thought Zimmerman was white. Because of his last name, they didn't know he was Hispanic. In fact, I'll bet you they took the last name and guessed he was Jewish.
The George-Zimmerman-is-Jewish theme spread like wildfire in the MSM and among bloggers. It was probably the actual cause of him being charged at all.
I’m sure there are FReepers who still think the Catholic Zimmerman must somehow be Jewish.
Sounds like a good start.
I wonder if he can have the richard jewel 1996 atlanta olympics case introduced as a pattern of misconduct.
If there were any justification for a major lawsuit, this is it. The anti-American, anti-freedom, Marxist media is directly responsible for ruining this man’s life through egregious, wanton misreporting with the INTENTIONAL motive of casting this as a racism issue.
He should sue them for $100 million.
It would certainly be worth the try, writing the brief to focus on the NBC misconduct and avoiding the ATF, FBI, Just Us department misconduct. That way the judge doesn't have to deny to protect the government.
??? Zimmerman's mother is *Peruvian*, not Brazilian. Peruvians are definitely Hispanic...
the infowarrior
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