We have freedom of speech, but we don't have the freedom to withhold truth in an effort to create a crisis, stir up tension and division or cause chaos.
I fully expect Zimmerman and that elderly couple to file lawsuits. At what point do we have grounds for a class action suit?
We are all put at risk when our domestic tranquility is deliberately effed with like these corporate news stooges have deliberately done.
It doesn't get more blatant than with this case and there are plenty of specific offenders as well as deep pocket employers of said offenders.
Time to use this opportunity to make an example out of the many offenders and their deep pocketed employers.
They aren't afraid of abusing their fellow Americans with their political propaganda and psyops.
Clearly, it's past time to clear up that misunderstanding.
Now it's time to turn the mob they created against them!
Very well said. Good posts by the both of you, back to back.
It seems the MSM keep pushing the envelope further and further for their agenda. They don't give a whit about presenting a balanced report if one side of a story goes against that agenda be it for political, financial or their preconceived societal outlook.
It's way past time to turn this around and hold them responsible for outrages like this one.
We have freedom of speech, but we don't have the freedom to withhold truth in an effort to create a crisis, stir up tension and division or cause chaos.
I’m shocked that a FReeper would take it for granted that journalistic reports are trustworthy without checking on FR, if not indeed listening to the unexpurgated audio personally.I fully expect Zimmerman and that elderly couple to file lawsuits. At what point do we have grounds for a class action suit?But I know that that is the fundamental problem with journalism - people just can’t get their heads around the fact that journalism does not try to be objective. I make that claim without fear of successful contradiction, because it’s my settled opinion that the only way to try to be objective is to be open and above board about any reasons why you might not be objective. This is SOP in financial journalism; you don’t write about a stock without declaring whether you own that stock or have shorted that stock. But it is never done in commercial journalism - you cannot openly declare your interests and at the same time claim actually to be objective. You can claim to be objective, or you can actually make a serious attempt at objectivity - you cannot do both.
You are talking my language! This is far from the first, or even the most egregious, example of slanted coverage which damaged the country. The Duke Lacrosse case was a hoax which was pretty transparent within a week, and seemed to drone on for a year before the complete exoneration of the Lacrosse team members. But the biggest one was probably the calling of Florida for Gore while the polls were still open in the Florida Panhandle. If that did not bias the result in Florida and elsewhere, TV advertising is seriously overpriced and overrated. And what would have been the effect in the West of revelation that Gore had lost his home state of Tennessee?? If Bush lost a state by as much as Gore lost Tennesee, the delay between closing and the call of the result would have been short enough that the West would have known of it before the close of the polls.We are all put at risk when our domestic tranquility is deliberately effed with like these corporate news stooges have deliberately done.
It doesn't get more blatant than with this case and there are plenty of specific offenders as well as deep pocket employers of said offenders.
Time to use this opportunity to make an example out of the many offenders and their deep pocketed employers.
The target I want to see sued into oblivion is the Associated Press. Before the mid-Nineteenth Century founding of the AP, newspapers were notoriously independent of each other. The AP unified journalism, making it a single national institution (don’t think of the individual members of the AP individually, any more than you think about the Yankees and Red Sox as competitors without realizing that in fact they are two parts of Major League Baseball, and cooperate selling the conceit that their games are important).They aren't afraid of abusing their fellow Americans with their political propaganda and psyops.
Clearly, it's past time to clear up that misunderstanding.
Now it's time to turn the mob they created against them!
They need to be hit with a civil RICO suit for treble damages. The fact that they have openly reported, without condemnation, the threats of the NBPP should be sufficient to make a racketeering case out of it.