The Modern Media Would Have Backed the Salem Witch Trials:
I've said recently that I now understand how Nazi Germany happened.
“Experts” Are Often Very Conflicted and Wrong:
Recent example:
The MSM is evil. No other word describes them better.
Pedaphilie U.
He doesn’t really get into details about why these guys were wrongly accused. I guess you have to buy the book...? Yes, the media are screwed up. That’s why I only read a few things about this case and forgot about it. I remember saying positive things about Paterno on a writing forum in like 2008 or 2009. When I read about the kid-diddling later I felt like a chump.
As a catholic kid growing up in the 50s/60s I heard a lot about J Paterno. He was like a saint or something to various people we associated with going to church and catholic school.
And because of this I don’t have a lot of trouble believing that there were chickenhawks involved.
But I don’t know for sure. The article instills a lot of doubt but provides no alibis.
Corbett was the Attorney General who started the case and then as Governor he was on the Board of Directors of Penn State where he became judge and jury.
Paterno got a raw deal due to Corbett, the former in house legal counsel for Waste Management Inc.
I taught at Penn State for years.
There are few people that I put on a pedestal relating to integrity. But Joe Paterno was one of them.
He may have been guilty of Old Age and mental capacities slipping, but there is no way he would cover up anything. He was as honest and ethical as they come.
I agree with his summation of how the media operate today, but if he feels the case was misrepresented I wish he had been more specific as to why.
They flat out lie; they have their narrative and they go with it. Any reporter who files the truth is fired.
John Ziegler is a grade A, Never Trumper, but I must say he knows this saga like no one else. The average payout per “Sandusky kid” was $3.2 million dollars, with zero investigation as to the veracity of the claim (outside of living/working in the county). IMO, a rudimentary investigation to the claims would have eliminated 80% of the kids. As to the remaining 20%, who knows. John is right. It was a media feeding frenzy and the rush to settle was the overriding factor.
In the 1990s, the church newspaper bragged the priests in State College were pro gay rights, and the psychologist who screened men desiring to study for the priesthood, actually gave a talk saying that the schools there should promote gay rights propaganda.
So when Sandusky was reported for molesting a kid, well, no one saw this as a crime at that time. And in the 1980 and 1990s,a lot of psychiatrists pushed the idea sex with kids was good, and that a loving man boy relationship would help the kid accept who he was. Father Groeshel got kicked off of EWTN when he mentioned this, but it wasn't his opinion, but he was only quoting what was being written in medical and psychiatric journals until recently. A lot of the news reports on the layfolk fighting the gay friendly bishop in the early 2000s are no longer on line, but Coleus posted them on FR years ago,
Ping.
Whatta bout Mikey Mann [of the State Penn] and his suit against Mark Steyn?
That was quite a story.
“When everyone in the Media Agrees, There is a Problem:” -— E.g.: Covid “pandemic,” Colin Powell, “Mad Dog” General Mattis...
There are some good points in article, not specific to the Sandusky case.
The only way you get total unanimity of perspective in this era is if it is happening due to corrosive artificial factors.
Profound.
The Modern Media Would Have Backed the Salem Witch Trials:
I've said recently that I now understand how Nazi Germany happened.
“Experts” Are Often Very Conflicted and Wrong:
Recent example: