At the very least, the mainstream media smells here.
From the outset, most of the MSM have been shrieking "hit-and-run."
Yet it's been known since shortly after the accident, that there was NO hit and run.
There may have been a chain reaction effect: Maybe the red pickup swerved, causing the white pickup to swerve (and then to bump the gov's SUV).
But no one "hit and ran." The driver of the white pickup stopped at the scene.
And until a few minutes ago, ABC radio new readers have been excitedly claiming that the driver of the red pickup "fled the scene."
Yet now it's reported that the driver of the red pickup apparently was not even aware of an accident behind him.
Like with the Duke lacrosse team, the MSM have struck again:
- Stretching the facts for a sensational headline.
- Getting the facts wrong.
- Lazily repeating other so-called journalists' errors.
The media use "hit-and-run" and "leaving the scene of the accident" interchangeably.
I don't know about NJ, but most states have laws against "leaving the scene of the accident." Someone pulling unsafely into moving traffic and causing an accident, even if they are not in the collision itself, are still charged with causing the accident. If they leave the scene, they are also charged with "leaving the scene." Any NJ law enforcement people out there care to respond?
They drive up, spew their lies, innuendo and half-truths, and beat a hasty retreat. If the initial reports start a firestorm, so what. They'll never come back to retract the initial hysteria, at least not at the volume they issued forth to begin with.
Amen.
Especially that last.
For weeks, it has been known that the green onions weren't responsible for the Take-A-Smell e-coli outbreak, but at least twice in the last week the alphabets have repeated it as fact in evening news stories on food contamination.
At least the grower isn't taking it. link (note the date!)