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Trayvon Martin Story Destroys Last of Media’s Credibility

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | April 2nd, 2012 at 12:00 PM |

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I don’t really know what happened between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. What I do know is that this story has resulted in at least one homicide – the self-inflicted homicide of the media’s last shreds of credibility. And it isn’t just conservative blogs that are noticing – even straight news sources have begun to notice the shame with which the media has covered itself during this entire sad saga. The Washington Post reported Friday that NBC’s egregious editing of Zimmerman’s 911 call will be “internally reviewed,” which is as close as you will ever get to an admission of a very serious screw up from a major news organization.

The most stunning admission yet came from something called a Touré, which is apparently an MSNBC contributor. Touré apparently got tired of being on a television channel no one watches so he went on Piers Morgan last week to take Piers to task for the journalistic crime of getting both sides of the story:

You know, at NBC, in the hallways, we were laughing at you today,” Touré told Morgan. “We wouldn’t take [Robert Zimmerman]. Standards and Practices at NBC wouldn’t let him get through door. And you had him on the air and allowed the hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands or whatever number of people watch your show listen to what he had to say.

This is the first time I can remember an alleged news figure explicitly stating that his network had a policy against allowing one of the major players in a national news story to give his side. My favorite part of Touré’s hysterical rant was his indignation at the fact that people would hear what Zimmerman had to say. One thing is clear – the way the media has been covering this story so far validates that Touré really was telling the truth. Journalistic Standards and Practices apparently don’t allow for any coverage of the Trayvon Martin story that would suggest that the race pimps who are currently hustling this story don’t have it right.

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westcoastpatriette

as I see it. They are political activists pushing their agendas — recklessly — and I suppose they will continue to get away with it as long as they have any adherents who listen.

runner12

The media has shown their true colors to the nation. They have jumped to conclusions, lied, edited facts, and generally misreported almost every fact in this case.

I found out today that the police questioned Zimmerman for five hours after the incident. The media acted like they questioned him at the scene and let him go. I even heard that the police wanted to arrest Zimmerman, but the prosecutor or whatever did not think there was enough evidence to do so.

There are still a lot of questions that need to be answered and no one knows what really happened at this point. But do not count on the MSM to report the facts.

lucitee

You are correct! WHOEVER the person was who insisted they RELEASE him has a MAJOR problem! I am appalled at the hate-mongers out in force spewing their disgusting rhetoric for their OWN Agenda! In MY opinion, Zimmerman was an arrogant, ego-twisted, power-hungry racist! If Trayvon DID try to defend himself, the odds were against him! Zimmerman was bigger, stronger, and had a loaded gun! NOT an even playing field! I would be safe in
declaring that ZIMMERMAN told TRAYVON; “You are going to die tonight”! instead of the way his enabling FATHER described the statement! There was NO REASONING to it! NO 17 year old is going to say that to a man almost twice his size! This tragedy SHOULD have been an opportunity for people to come together and MOURN with the Martins in the mur-der of their son! INSTEAD, we have politics, Agendas, racists and divisive vitriol in the mix! Absolutely SHAMEFUL and DISGUSTING!

mirac777

The 6’2 1/2 inch tall, hooded black person with a mouth full of gold teeth and a record of being caught with a backpack full of ladies jewelry and a screwdriver is somehow an innocent angel in your eyes? Now it’s racism to use critical thinking when looking at all the facts and circumstances? Zimmerman is 5’9″ . How does this pudgy hispanic come off as more powerful and bigger than the 17 year old football player? Just like the race-pimps and his family trying to say he was going to go to college to be an aeronaughtical engineer, while the facts show that he was shipped out of Miami because he had been suspended 3 times. Kinda hard to get a college degree when you can’t even graduate H/S isn’t it? The one spewing the racist rhetoric here while ignoring what few facts we do know would appear to be you.

noveldog9

Like you, I don’t think he was larger? I don’t know if he is innocent or guilty, but I do know that three innocent folks were killed in a robbery the other day. They were shot down by three hooded black men according to the video.

My question is this? Where is the NAACP? Why are they not protesting about these innocent folks being killed by three black men?

When will we put a stop to their (the NAACP) constant interference in many matters that they know nothing about? When will we properly cast them as a racist organization and put them on our terror list of organizations to be wary of?

jlsankot

You have seen the picture of Trayvon when he was 11 or 12 years old, as has everyone else because the media won’t show us what he looked like at 17, which I think is very telling. In that case, I can understand why you think Zimmerman is/was “twice the size”. I honestly don’t know, and I wish people would stop spewing hypothoses as if it were fact.

My point is, that kids, especially boys, can grow a tremendous amount in the teen years. Some can add a foot of height and bulk up to an unbelievable size.
Granted, others don’t, but the picture shown of Treyvon shows a kid who hasn’t experienced the effects of testosterone yet, and a 17 year old would definitely show signs of that. Just my opinion, with some facts thrown in.
rwp4liberty

Tell me the MSM isn?t trying to create a race-baited hate-crime where none existed. What we heard on NBC and repeated throughout the MSM is this edited version of Zimmerman?s 911 call:

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

NBC purposefully edited the 911 tape to make it sound like Zimmerman was targeting Martin because he was black. They also accused Zimmerman of following Martin after the 911 dispatcher told him not to; IT?S A LIE! Here is the unedited transcript of the tape VIA Mother Jones (a left-wing source):

Dispatcher: Sanford Police Department. ?

Zimmerman: Hey we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there’s a real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, um, the best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

Dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?

Zimmerman: Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a grey hoodie, and either jeans or sweatpants and white tennis shoes. He’s [unintelligible], he was just staring?

Dispatcher: OK, he’s just walking around the area?

Zimmerman: ?looking at all the houses.

Dispatcher: OK?

Zimmerman: Now he’s just staring at me.

Dispatcher: OK?you said it’s 1111 Retreat View? Or 111?

Zimmerman: That’s the clubhouse?

Dispatcher: That’s the clubhouse, do you know what the?he’s near the clubhouse right now?

Zimmerman: Yeah, now he’s coming towards me.

Dispatcher: OK.

Zimmerman: He’s got his hand in his waistband. And he’s a black male.

Dispatcher: How old would you say he looks?

Zimmerman: He’s got button on his shirt, late teens.

Dispatcher: Late teens ok.

Zimmerman: Something?s wrong with him. Yup, he’s coming to check me out, he’s got something in his hands, I don’t know what his deal is.

Dispatcher: Just let me know if he does anything ok

Zimmerman: How long until you get an officer over here?

Dispatcher: Yeah we’ve got someone on the way, just let me know if this guy does anything else.

Zimmerman: Okay. These assholes they always get away. When you come to the clubhouse you come straight in and make a left. Actually you would go past the clubhouse.

Dispatcher: So it’s on the left-hand side from the clubhouse?

Zimmerman: No you go in straight through the entrance and then you make a left?uh you go straight in, don’t turn, and make a left. Shit he’s running.

Dispatcher: He’s running? Which way is he running?

Zimmerman: Down towards the other entrance to the neighborhood.

Dispatcher: Which entrance is that that he’s heading towards?

Zimmerman: The back entrance?fucking [unintelligible]

Dispatcher: Are you following him?

Zimmerman: Yeah

Dispatcher: Ok, we don’t need you to do that.

Zimmerman: Ok

Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?

Zimmerman: George?He ran.

Dispatcher: Alright George what’s your last name?

Zimmerman: Zimmerman

Dispatcher: And George what’s the phone number you’re calling from?

Zimmerman: [redacted by Mother Jones]

Dispatcher: Alright George we do have them on the way, do you want to meet with the officer when they get out there?

Zimmerman: Alright, where you going to meet with them at?

Zimmerman: If they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the club house, and uh, straight past the club house and make a left, and then they go past the mailboxes, that?s my truck…[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What address are you parked in front of?

Zimmerman: I don?t know, it?s a cut through so I don?t know the address.

Dispatcher: Okay do you live in the area?

Zimmerman: Yeah, I…[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What?s your apartment number?

Zimmerman: It?s a home it?s 1950, oh crap I don?t want to give it all out, I don?t know where this kid is.

Dispatcher: Okay do you want to just meet with them right near the mailboxes then?

Zimmerman: Yeah that?s fine.

Dispatcher: Alright George, I?ll let them know to meet you around there okay?

Zimmerman: Actually could you have them call me and I?ll tell them where I?m at?

Dispatcher: Okay, yeah that?s no problem.

Zimmerman: Should I give you my number or you got it?

Dispatcher: Yeah I got it [redacted by Mother Jones]

Zimmerman: Yeah you got it.

Dispatcher: Okay no problem, I?ll let them know to call you when you?re in the area.

Zimmerman: Thanks.

Dispatcher: You?re welcome.

There you have it; the only reason Zimmerman mentioned race was to answer the 911 dispatcher?s question, and NBC cut that vital information out to support the ?racial? narrative. Also, Zimmerman has stopped following Martin and told the dispatcher he didn?t know where Martin was.

I get so sick and tired of the liberals, particularly in the MSM, who try to manufacture a narrative to support their agenda. It happened here with NBC and their sister cable-network channel MSNBC; it happened with CBS and their forged George Bush discharge papers days before the 2004 election; it happens more often that people realize. Then the liberal sheep, even some of my facebook friends, they just suck this crap up and won?t for a minute question the veracity of what?s being propagated.

Frustrating?.
Scope

On another diary you said-

“Personal and hopefully profitable ?sermons? can show what is in a persons ?HEART? but can NEVER replace FACTS!

Personal opinions are an ?OPTION?!
FACTS are a ?GIVEN?!”

Yet you come here with your racist rant, and have already determined, by your own “opinion”, and obviously missing some known “facts” that Zimmerman is as guilty as sin? My my, the hypocricy is dripping here isn’t it?
camurd

I have a few questions for you:

Do you personally know either one of these people?

Did you witness what happened that night?

Do you understand the role of the DA?

I know plenty of 17 year old young men that I would not want to fight.

The sad reality is that a young man is dead and there is a family that is morning his death. What is even sadder is that people like you and the other race baiter are trying to make this into something it is not. I think it is SHAMEFUL and DISGUSTING that there are poor American kids, of all colors, killed every single day and there is no media coverage, no rallies, and people like you that don’t even care. The fact is that the majority of these kids are black and they are being killed by other blacks, so call it racist if you like, but I suspect that is just a way for you to deal with the truth. And based on your comments you are the definition of racism.

rac?ism
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

amazedamerican

The parents of children are responsible for the actions of their children. If travons parents had been responsible parents, that kid would not have been out on the streets at night. They are the ones that are responsible for this mess. How can they look at themselves in the mirror!??

Scope

were apparently divorced or at least separated. According to the reports, Travon was walking back to his dad’s girlfriend’s apartment.

I don’t agree that the parents are always at fault, or responsible for the action’s of their children. They can try to instill the best in their children, but I think you would find many very disappointed parents who have children that become something other than what they were taught as youngsters. I’m not saying they are always innocent, but I doubt that they are “always” guilty of irresponsible child rearing.

westcoastpatriette

Children ultimately have choices and many decide to go into full blown rebellion against everything their parents taught them — usually starting in their teen years. Some continue on in their rebellion well into their adult years but eventually grow up and realize their parents were right all along.

rockymtn1776

We once had great newspapers and evern greater journalists, all that is long gone probbably never to return.
As to the Trayvon Martin case, Je$$ie Jack$on, Rev? Al are there to save the day by stirring up even more trouble.They have thousands of black followers whose minds are made up, Zimmerman is guilty and don’t you dare confuse them wiith the facts !
As for Zimmerman, LaRaza should be going all out to help him but not a word out of this equally racisty & corrupt group.
America is no longer the “melting pot” we are now the salad bowl with every racial group fighting each other !

Seedyrom

pretending to represent the company Brian Williams is the face of. Even worse he most appears on MSDNC when a racial issue arises as Race Hustling is his specialty and he sometimes writes for Time magazine. Other than that he’s an arm chair buffoon watching tv at some cubicle in the middle of nowwhereville. Which is where his career is heading.

Woops, I jumped the shark, Tour? will soon be working at CurrentTv the company that just fired Creep Olbermann. CTv is America’s next media bankruptcy.

Mike Ferguson

- when that white guy brought an Assault Rifle to a protest of Obamacare. You know the white guy who they edited the video of because he was black. MSLSD or anyone associated with them has to credibility, period.

Seedyrom

Yes he is!

DVPTEXFLA

There has been a lack of character by people in the media, the politicians and even a lot of people submitting posts and comments on various blogs.

The reality is that unless you have accesses to the autopsy, the “crime scene” pictures and video, the forensic reports, the clothing, all of the statements and interviews, reports phone calls etc, you really do not know what happened and what can be proved.

It seems that a lot of people know feel that Mr. Zimmerman must be convicted NOW or must be vindicated NOW, based on bits of information. The supposed leaders should know better.

See Duke University Lacrosse and Richard Jewel, as two classic examples of rush to judgement.
aleena

Many years ago, I realized that the msm news was slanted and that the shows on these channels promoted “progressive” values. At that time, I made a conscious effort never to view anything on those channels. Now, I don’t even recognize the names of the people who work there.

When the Trayvon Martin story was first reported, it was twisted to make him look like an innocent victim. At first, I was outraged by what happen; but as the facts dribbled out, I became less sure about what had happened. Now, I feel that we should let the investigation proceed, and see what the evidence tells us.

Sadly, the race baiters have used this as a way to try to show how racist America is. They should be reminded of the story of the “Boy who Cried Wolf”. The race baiters have cried racism so often now that few are really listening to them anymore.

http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

Quite the opposite, they’re showing how some Americans are easily manipulated by a few bigoted race pimps. They’re showing how a small minority of bigoted racists act when they have the right buttons pushed.

They’re also showing how they, the mainstream media, have blown their credibility over and over again in the information age.

Actually it’s kind of interesting to watch the continued implosion of the old media outlets in the light of how long they had a one way disinformation highway going before the internet became their worst nightmare.

citadelveteran

My wife subscribe’s to Time magazine which I happened to pick up and read an article by this Tour? character.
“How to Talk to Young Black Boys About Trayvon Martin
Eight talking points about the potentially fatal condition of being black”

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/21/how-to-talk-to-young-black-boys-about-trayvon-martin/#ixzz1quBCzt7r
http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/21/how-to-talk-to-young-black-boys-about-trayvon-martin/

He says, “Black maleness is a potentially fatal condition.” Blaming prejudice and racism as the culprit. Like they will be hunted like wild game. Never once does he mention that they are orders of magnitude more likely to be ambushed by a fellow black that a police officer, neighborhood watch captain, mall cop, what have you. “You will have to make allowances for other people?s racism. That?s part of the burden of being black. We can be defiant and dead or smart and alive.”

Hold your nose and see what the other side put’s out as fact.

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/21/how-to-talk-to-young-black-boys-about-trayvon-martin/#ixzz1quCm7RQ1
Tbone

Nothing it has done since has surprised me.

I will say one thing. I have been reading the comments on Zimmerman articles across a broad political range of publications and people have had enough of the race baiting from Sharpton, Jackson AND Obama.

Obama has set race relations in this country back to the 60s. He won’t be re-elected because he will get zero % of the white union vote in the swing states due to his own blatant racism.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

Obama is loathed by a large swath of indies and Dems. This really looks like Dukakis or worse to me.

acat

Obama did promise a “conversation on race” … and he’s surely accomplished that.

Mew

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

America fundamentally transformed? Hope not.

uselogic

The tide is turning in most of the comment sections. Even in the most slanted of sources on the case.

And I’m sure hoping you’re correct as to the voting implications.

johnt

but essentially from the same mold. They’re laughing at him in the corridors of the nation’s asylums.
Overall this was an exercise in the media’s contempt towards the rest of the country. You know how it is with people who have degrees in journalism, read at a 6th grade level, and think history is old buildings with leaky roofs.
They don’t enable so much as create racist prostitutes like Sharpton to do their fieldwork for them. Just as at a certain level they know the damage that Obama is doing.
There is very often a self destructive part of aggression, a part that turns or is built into the person, one that destroys. I wish they could do it on their own and leave Normal People alone though.
NeoKong

But neither does these media pundits who make definitive statements they cannot substantiate.
They have their scenario and will not accept any other version.

They use words like “stalked” “chased” “hunted” “confronted” “gunned down” “pursued” which all have very specific meanings that are much more aggressive than the words “follow” or “watched”.

They use these words to paint the picture that Martin was running for his life as Zimmerman chased him with his gun drawn then caught up to him and just shot him while he begged for his life.

They try to say that Zimmerman was told to stand down by the 911 operator but ignored that and ran after Martin when there is no evidence I have seen to support that.
But they report that anyways.

Also the conduct of some of the members of the Black Congressional Caucus is absolutely disgraceful.

Bobby Rush is wearing a hoodie on the floor of the house to support a kid in another state while young kids in his own district are being gunned down by the dozens and all he can offer is some media stunt.

Frederica Wilson goes on television in a rodeo costume and screeches out how Martin “was hunted down like a dog and shot in the street” apparently in execution style.
She shows up at every event like it is a campaign stop.

Black Panthers or black out…?
The media allows all sorts of people to label Zimmerman a vigilante while they ignore the NBPP put out dead or alive posters with a reward for Zimmermans capture as if he is a felon on the run.
Media coverage of that….?
(crickets chirping)
Let’s not even speak of how Black Panther leader Nashim Nzinga was arrested last week as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

All of this is going on as young black kids are dropping like flies all over the country in these multiple victim shootings and there is an astonishing media blackout.

It’s not important is the demographics aren’t correct.

It’s disgusting and an obvious attempt to gin up racial anger that they might be able to gain political traction on later.
They are not fooling anyone.

mirac777

Maybe truth-telling really is making a comeback in America! Love the “rodeo costume” quip, btw. Reminds me of 1 career corrupt congress-critter from here in FL, Corrine Brown, she of the super-sized Florida Gators colored Coleman tent while speaking in the House floor.Gators colors that day were orange and blue btw.

anjinconsulting

so he went on Piers Morgan last week (another channel that only a few people watch) to show hardly anyone watches, to launch a screed that no one really cares about. Anyone with any kind of appreciation for any kind of objective reporting doesnt give any credence to anything projected by the triumverant in the SCUM.

Now if Piers really wanted to boost his ratings he would have pointed out that black on black homicide is a threat that rises several orders of magnitude beyond white on black, and that working for, let alone being being s*&%tcanned by a worthless rag like the Rolling Stone doesnt exactly make him the epitome of journalistic integrit or ability.

You know if anyone in the GOP leadership had any intestinal fortitude, or even the smallest cojones they would be making all kinds of hay with this.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say again; if (God forbid) any kind of organized racial violence erupts, Captain Zero and the SCUM will own it. Captain Zero’s behavior borders on treasonous.
irishgirl

as to what the heck a “white Hispanic” is………

chbroussard

So what is Obama? A White Black? The media couldn’t make this a racial issue if Mr. Zimmerman was solely of Hispanic heritage. The media, along with their partners in crime Revs. Sharpton and Jackson, will stoop as low as necessary to divide this country. What’s worse are all the useful idiots that fall for it.
http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

But if they only said “Hispanic” it would be minority on minority violence, by adding “white” to the description they try to make it non-minority on minority and allow for the race card to be used to full effect before the facts implode the sensationalist race baiting b.s. etc.

goodgovernance

why some conservatives thought it was a good idea to wade into this story, when we don’t know the facts either. Did the MSM want the story to play out in a very specific way from the moment they learned about it? Certainly. The few details we had at the beginning were certain to push all the Left’s buttons: gun control and racism are a heady mix for the libs.

But while I think RedState has mostly been responsible in focusing on the media and the Left’s attempts to make political hay out of a tragic situation before all the facts are in, others on the right have been all too eager to reflexively engage the Left in a way that could backfire horribly once the full details are finally known, months after the original event.

I’m hopeful a lot of the stuff I’ve been hearing is overhyped, but if you seriously think wearing a hoodie indicates a kid is a thug, you don’t sound like someone credible, you just sound old. And if you’re going on Martin’s twitter feed to selectively pick a few photos that you think show his criminal nature, that’s just as irresponsible as the MSM.

I love the conservative cause, and those who fight for it, but these days I swear there’s a good portion of the base that’s more interested in reflexively getting into scraps with the Left as opposed to accomplishing the mission. The two are not always one and the same.

Nowadays the Left can just wave a red cape in front of an anvil and, on cue, some on the Right will charge straight into the immovable object like an enraged bull, only to explode into a pile of choice cuts ready for the grill.

The governor of Florida has ordered an investigation of Martin’s death and has rightly refused to speak out in favor of one side or the other, until the facts are all in. I think we should wait to see what those facts are, and then hit the Left with them again and again if/when it turns out they distorted the true picture in their rush to conclusions. That’ll be the most effective way to get them.

In the meantime we ought to call for people to wait for all the facts to come to light, instead of trying to paint a fanciful picture of what happened or might have happened ourselves. Because you can be sure if Martin doesn’t turn out to have been some rampaging thug, or if Zimmerman really does turn out to be a racist or a paranoid, the Left is going to hammer us over and over again with this, even though they’ve gotten it wrong themselves plenty of times (such as the trumped up Duke lacrosse scandal).

http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

We have no idea what happen,or what evidence the police have. One thing is mandatory, we must attempt to correct the media when they start throwing stones before they know the facts, even if it turns out Zimmerman is guilty, we are not, because unlike Spike Lee, we did the right thing.

acat

?We’ve been called racists often enough it shouldn’t bother us anymore? — Art Chance

Pity Art saw it necessary to part company with Red State.

Mew

Tbone

The Left is playing this the way they always do. I could care less what the Left says or thinks and rational people in the center will see that too.

trevorb

time I think the media can’t sink any lower, they find a way to prove me wrong. Whatever the facts of the case, considering how hot emotions are running right now, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see rioting if this doesn’t end in a guilty verdict.

davesinsanantonio

they don’t really care who riots or what they riot about. Why do they want riots? So that they can use the government forces to quell them. Those forces include police, fire, EMS, the FBI, the military, the NSA, etc, etc. They can then say we need to use these same forces to keep tabs on certain elements of society, even those elements who may not have rioted, but potentially could riot next time, in order to protect society from those who would tear it apart. Of course they are ignoring the fact that it is them who are fomenting all the divisions within society and egging each segment to feel aggrieved and further egging them to demand “justice” or whatever. Then all they have to do is wait for a spark and then begin heaping fuel onto the subsequent fire. All the while they will be lamenting those divisions in such a way as to make sure the rifts in our country are never healed.
They do not want to solve our problems, they want to bring all the attention to bear on them that they can as a way for fan societal tensions until they explode. They need riots in order to use the government to put those riots down and then keep them from happening again.
We are a bit tardy for 1984, but we will surely get there if the Left can manage it.

Jack_Savage

…has now become mainstream on the left.

http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

I’ve written two pieces this last week, one covering the very thing you just did. You are correct, and in my diary I posted the whole interview that You’re had with Morgan. I don’t want to become this cynical, and I have to wonder does the media really breed this kind of cynicism in the journalist.

acat

Every single industry has people who do the right things, who are honest, straight-shooters .. and every single industry has a seedy underbelly of corner-cutting cynics.

Journalism isn’t special, neither is being a doctor, a preacher, a construction worker, a nurse, a teacher, a mechanic … the difference is that in journalism, it’s historically been tougher to prove.

The internet is changing this… and we’re going to need a new breed of J-school grads who understand the new paradigm…

Mew

uselogic

n/t
http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

I wanted to see a change, if it was only a few persons among legions of opinions shapers who would tell the truth, no matter how difficult that is. I assumed most start this way, but through peer pressure and market conditions, they become unbelievably cynical. But you are correct, we do need some new blood to accomplish what this nation needs to see accomplished.

http://stevemaley.com Steve Maley

They were caught rigging the test crash of a GM pickup, to “prove” the trucks were prone to fiery explosions during crashes,
earlgrey

accuracy in reporting?
hwgood

…they won’t get the blood in the streets they want. That will really be a great story for them to cover.
(And does Bam-Bam want the blood there, too?)
1stRichard

I did not take much notice of it back then other then put it in the Tea Party don?t do list, it was suggested ?No Hoodies? and the MSM would twist this as the hooded hoodlums of the KKK. If someone is dressed like a hooded hoodlum or hooded KKK member is it prejudice to think that person is a member of that clan? I have no doubt the racist MSM will make that determination according to race and what side of the fence you are on.

Who are the victims of such prejudice and who are the perpetrators of this prejudice, the perpetrators seem to be the MSM and those on the left side of the fence. For those on the right side of the fence we should not be playing or be caught in the blame game, we need to be exposing the perpetrators of this prejudice.

acat

And, had I attended a Tea Party event on a chilly day, there wouldn’t have been any coverage whatsoever… doesn’t fit the narrative.

Mew

1stRichard

There are plenty of hoodies but the point is the liberals here are a different animal, take a look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYYXCVz4Gk

Now try to make a list of possibilities when confronting such a rabid animal and you should find hoods in the first twenty pages.

acat

Does fried chicken also fit your narrative? Sounds to me, Richard, like you’ve been huffing the media narrative too long….

Mew

1stRichard

Therein you want to be one of the perpetrators of this prejudice or are you the victim. You play the fried chicken card and in response, no I am not going to play your race baiting liberal antics. My narrative is that we need to be exposing the perpetrators of this prejudice and thank your for your shameful racist example.
acat

You’ll have a chance, then, of staying on track.

Mew

Leon H. Wolf

Are my favorite article of winter clothing

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

Seriously though, I always have hated them because they mess up your hair and are bad on peripheral vision, and that was before the Una Bomber.

Michael Dugas

“White man on life support after hammer attack by two black teens near Sanford, FL” Have you heard of this story at all? Happened on Monday March 26 and given how close it was, both chronologically and geographically, to the Trayvon Martin incident you would think it would make more of a splash on the news. But that’s not what happened. While the two thugs were still at large the Orlando Sentinel released a call for information on this crime and a description of the “perps”, that even though the police report stated that the two suspects they were looking for were Black, the Sentinel edited that info out and released this description of the would be murderers…”Both of the attackers are about 20 years old. One is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and was wearing blue denim shorts. He was not wearing a shirt. The second man was 5 feet, 10 inches tall.” Hmmmmm….what’s missing?
(1.) http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-27/news/os-attempted-homicide-seminole-20120327_1_critical-condition-attackers-second-man
(2.) http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-02/news/os-two-arrested-seminole-beating-20120402_1_victim-arrest-affidavits-crimeline

Now the “Council of Conservative Citizens” state that they have a reader who says they have an email reply from the Sentinel that admits that the race of the victim was censored on purpose, and that it is the policy of the newspaper to censor race.
http://cofcc.org/2012/04/two-teens-beat-50-year-old-with-hammer-near-sanford-fl/

Democrats, the MSM and the Obama Administration seem to be working in unison to instigate race/class violence in our country. This has to be brought to light and stopped in it’s place.

westcoastpatriette

When crimes are reported in the news — particularly violent crimes — they fail to include the fact that the perpetrator was an illegal immigrant. They must be protected at all costs. After all, the people would get more angry than they already are if they knew just how much crime is committed by illegals. The Dems in Sacramento are working fast and furious to make the entire state a sanctuary state and want us to think of illegals as innocent people simply looking for work. It’s getting ridiculous how they are allowed to break our laws with impunity.

funwithknives

if the perpetrator is anything but white, a very curious thing occurs. You generally only find out if the media gets the booking photos up on screen, or published.
Many times police blotters in local papers do not mention this topic at all.

Yet, we have Detroit’s Mayor{Dave Bing, former B/Ball star} discussing a financial manager’spotential appointment and insinuating there might be community violence as a result.
Last week a Reverend Malik Shabazz, New BBParty, stated that “…we will burn it down…, if a desired result was not forthcoming. { which just happened to include Little to No Outside Control of funds}
Couldn’t hush That One up if you wanted to. Butthen, he said “I’m Sorry” and cleaned up his act by ‘dressing up’, some.{really, you would not know it’s the same guy….}

What is common here? Try to not judge what is occurring. Let it surprise you, and the lesson sticks forever.
But,…. so many lessons…..

adair

eliminated race from crime descriptions about, oh, 25 or 30 years ago. Progressive, that’s what they were, progressive.

severeconservative

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rwp4liberty

A 6′ 2″ 17 year old is no child, he was a young adult. And if he were so innocent, what was he doing in a gated community where he did not live, had been caught with burglary tools and bags of women?s jewelry in the past, and came back after he fled from Zimmerman?s sight to attack Zimmerman from behind. Yes, its tragic the Martin was killed, but there is nothing to support your claim that Martin was just an innocent child.
Scope

Are you saying that Martin was innocent, and that Zimmerman was guilty of murder? Do you have any more facts than the rest of the population does in order to determine that Martin was “innocent”?

radicalrighty

That network, along with the others have no standards. As far as practices, the only ones are obviously to convince women in this country that” the GOP is at war on women,” and, oh yeah, “the GOP wants to take women’s contraceptives away.”

And, if the poll that came out yesterday hasn’t been manipulated, women (incredulously) are believing it.
Scope

I never watch the arrogant and condesending O’Reilly, but last night it was on as background noise, and I actually heard O’Reilly say that it has gotten to the point now that Zimmerman has to be arrested in order to quell the increasing calls from the “public” that he be arrested. He said it more than once.

So the Havud educated O’Reilly is now willing to throw the laws out the window, and just sacrifice an individual under investigation, because the race baiters are screaming for it. Zimmerman, should be the sacrifical lamb? even if he happens to be innocent, and it can be proven that he was acting in self defense? In that case the police that were wrongly convicted by the race baiters and the media in the Tawana Brawley case should be sitting in jail? Does that mean that the Duke Lacrosse players should be sitting in jail because the race baiters and the media already convicted them, when they were in fact innocent? According to O’Reilly’s thinking, anyone who the race baiter’s determine to be guilty of a crime, as judged by the media, are not due the proper procedures according to the law, but when the media convict’s you, you are automatically guilty and should be sitting in jail?

Sheperd Smith has done exactly the same thing, and has already convicted Zimmerman on his show. If I’m not mistaken, he also has played the doctored 911 tapes. He couldn’t wait yesterday to say that two experts have determined that the one crying for help on those tapes was not Zimmerman. From what I’ve read, the so-called experts, fighting over whose methods were more correct and accurate, have determined that with one of the results, he can only say with 48% accuracy that it wasn’t Zimmerman’s voice. They can’t prove that it was Martin’s voice. Smith referred to Martin last night as “little Trayvon.”

funwithknives

Period. What is he doing there? Truely, a square peg pounded into a smaller, round hole.
Billy OHHH!,on the other hand is getting really tiresome. Listening to him expound on his version of the facts on Oil Speculators and energy pricing shows there ARE some things he knows less than nothing of.
The Martin Topic is one more of these.Miller on Wednesdays and the talking points [to find out if anyone *interesting* will be on} is about it. Thank it’s Creators, for remote controls!!

Scope

you wonder why they need to hire Fox news contributors like Jemu Green, Sally Kohn and Juan Williams.

Yesterday on the Five at Five, Juan Williams was filling in for Bob Beckle. One comment he made was more outreageous than the last. When he proclaimed that the show was nothing more than a “Republican Romper Room”, it should have gotten him kicked off the show. Alas, that is considered Fair and Balanced.

earlgrey

I’d like to see someone new in the primetime slot. I like John Stossel and they have him at Fox Business. He has experience at a major network news show. Why can’t they give him more exposure?

There may be other more appropriate choices, but I started watching O’Reilley in 1996 when Fox first came on the air. I don’t wach any more. I find him utterly unlikeable. I just think that you can’t have the same guy doing the same show for decades and expect them to be as effective.

westcoastpatriette

spewing his leftist adages ad infinitum. He is on there right now lecturing us all on how we have to do our fair share while he criticizes the Republicans budget proposal. I am so sick of his ugly face lecturing us every day on social issues that the President should not be involved in, for the most part, at all. He is like an abusive person violating our personal boundaries every day — and insulting our intelligence and integrity while he is at it.

Sorry for the rant. But, think about it. He is on TV every single day. So sick of listening to this dictator try to brainwash all of us. Unfortunately, a lot of ignorant people are buying it.
earlgrey

there is such a thing as too much exposure. Especially when you have failed the people you claim to lead– and he so clearly has.
Scope

as Fox went to his speech again today. Remember back when he first got in, he was on TV all the time, and people started screaming about the overexposurer? He is doing it again recently as his campaign is now in full swing, and speaking as the pres. he is getting all the face time he wants. Call it free Obama ads on all the networks.

He is right now going on again about his expectations that the SC will rule according to long time precedents. Dumbo.
Scope

No lie.
funwithknives

i was just thinking the same thing probably at the same time. It’s like he’s our version of “Big Brother” and at any minute he’s coming out from behind the screen.

Does he EVER SHUT UP???

Then FOX doubles down,and puts him on both channels. Put him on split-screen and get a headache in stereo. {How DO YOU spell ARRGGHH?}

adair

O’Reilly thinks the oil industry is as evil and conniving as Obama does.

And as you know, if anyone comes on his show with opposing, logical, reasonable views he or she is interrupted mercilessly during the entire interview.

I think he’s fighting to hold onto his big ratings, and so has to be even-handed and give each side equal veracity whether earned or not. Annoying.

ihateliberals

The Trayvon Martin case only validates what we already know about the media and the bias they have. the media has proven time and gain how irresponsible and unreliable it is. NBC has now solidified all of our feelings about Network News forums. Most of the media has broken the rule of not being the news but reporting the news.
Scope

According to this article it appears that Zimmerman did stop following Martin when he was asked to. As the author says, listen to the tape, and judge for yourself.

The very last sentence in the article contains a link to video of Al Sharpton, talking years ago about how he manipulates the media, and gets his race baiting methods to get major media attention. Andrew Breitbart’s work lives on.
drsheilahere

“The Tragedy of Any Trayvon. As Usual, Obama Is Political, Not Poetic.”

http://www.drsheilaherenow.net/index.htm/obamas-interference-spreading-like-kudzu/
Scope

is apparently the one that got on the phone immediately after getting a call from a cousin of Martin’s father. Apparently Crump learned how to take a story, and blow it up into a national inflammatory story, from his time representing another young black kid, Martin Lee Anderson, who died at a Fla. bootcamp for young delinquents in 2006. The accused in that case were also acquitted.

I still believe that the worst offenders in this entire debacle are the elected representatives in DC, all a part of the Congressional Black caucus, who all took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Of course for some liberals, the Constitution is an outdated, old, document that no longer has any meaning. It doesn’t fit their agenda.
dmt1021

Leon, aren’t you doing the same thing the goofy Toure was doing? You threw in the name of “Robert Zimmerman” without informing those who didn’t see the Piers Morgan episode that “Robert” is the father of George Zimmerman, the alleged perp. Don’t you at least owe it to your readers to make sure there’s no confusion between the two when the causal reader may be focusing on the last name “Zimmerman” only?
spolson

Remember when the white tourist couple were beaten to death because they got lost and ended in the “wrong place at the wrong time”? Some how it was their fault for being there. This doesn’t apply to a black youth with a record of burglaries in a neighborhood not his own doing what? Walking between houses?

I am a white guy who lives in a black neighborhood on social security because I am disabled and can’t afford to live anywhere else. I am in the wrong place (a black neighborhood) at the wrong time (the era of Black lawlessness and hatred brought on by the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson). The result is like you would expect, I have been robbed 4 times in two years and was met at the door with a young black man with a pistol in my face. I deserved, it after all I did make myself available My neighbor on the either side are wonderful nice people and we get along great but they are my age or nearly and grew up as I did without racial hatred. But the young black neighbors kids look at me with hatred and rob and threaten me. I am armed now and I pray they stop because I do not want someone to get hurt,
But I have a right to my life and property. If it does come to that. I am sure I risk becoming the next Zimmerman. For the record I am not laying in wait for a Black man to kill. I am cowering in my house hoping to stay alive. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never did anything for Black people except convince them that they have the right to be lawless and disrespectful to the people of other races as well as their own. They are pumping up racism so they will have a job. No other reason.
remalimo

and we have been duped into the racial tones to get out the black vote. If the black don’t get out the vote for the Nov 2010 election there is a big possibility that Big “O” will not be reelected

This battle is to stir up the electorate to tell them that if race is not handled under “O” then it will only get worse. I think that if one were to check Bro. Al you might find some large deposits to his bank account. The Rev. Jackson does not seem to have as much to say about this one since this romance a few years back but he needs some tread to get back on the road.
hayekwasright

Good post Leon. One possible correction though. I don’t think that the historically “major” media outlets have had any real credibility since 2008.
I would suggest that the points you put forward reaffirm that reliable journalism is dead, at least among these “major” outlets.
drbrum

You might perhaps be expecting an apology? It ain’t gonna happen. Being a left wing ideologue means the end justifies the means. So what if you make outrageous charges! So what of you have no proof! So what if you have to falsify or alter the evidence to suit your purposes! No Problemo! There will always be a ready audience waiting to support you. Al Sharpton apologize. Jesse Jackson apologize. Ain’t gonna happen. Is Trayvon still the son Barack Obama would like to have? Stay tuned to your local NBC station.
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