ABC "broke" the news first last week by showing the original arrest video. They led on the poor Martin family and all the Black racist leaders to think there were no wounds on Zimmerman's head. This led to a weekend of television coverage of various protests. Then a week later they do there job and they find the head wounds. News has just become a game show to the mainstreet media.
You mean this? http://www.nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/nbc-investigating-segment-on-zimmerman-call.html?imw=Y NBC disclosed today that it will be launching an internal investigation into a segment about the Trayvon Martin case that appeared on the Today show, in which a call between George Zimmerman and a 911 dispatcher prior to Martin's death was edited in such a way that it portrays Zimmerman as a racial profiler. The editorial decision under review involves the removal of the dispatcher's inquiry about the race of the person Zimmerman was following â Martin. Absent that question, Zimmerman's comments get strung together as if he said, in sequence, "This guy looks like heâs up to no good. He looks black." The Washington Post provides the full transcript of that part of the call: Zimmerman: This guy looks like heâs up to no good. Or heâs on drugs or something. Itâs raining and heâs just walking around, looking about. Dispatcher: OK, and this guy â is he black, white or Hispanic? Zimmerman: He looks black. Of course Zimmerman goes on to follow Martin against the advice of the dispatcher, but in this version of the call, it doesn't appear that he's awkwardly offering the information or in effect, profiling. Zimmerman still might have been, but the truncated call left much less doubt. The Post's Erik Wemple writes that in a case where few facts are undisputed, it was particularly egregious to misrepresent one of them, the phone call. "To portray that exchange in a way that wrongs Zimmerman is high editorial malpractice well worthy of the investigation that NBC is now mounting." Meanwhile New York Times media czar David Carr wrote a column today titled "A Shooting, And Instant Polarization," in which he similarly impugned some media coverage of this controversial case. That the public is rendering its verdict immediately and firmly may be routine, but choosing sides takes on a deeper, more dangerous meaning when race is at the heart of the story. Race as an explosive issue is nothing new, but itâs been staggering to see it simmer and boil over in our hyperdivided media environment where nonstop coverage on the Web and cable television creates a rush to judgment every day. Partisan politics and far-flung conflicts fit nicely into that world â whoâs ahead, whoâs behind, should we stay or go? â but racial conflict? Not so much. That hasnât stopped many in the media from displaying the same reflexive vigilantism that some are attributing to George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon. All over the Internet and on cable TV, posses are forming, positions are hardening and misinformation is flourishing. Instead of debating how we as a culture are going to proceed, an increasingly partisan system of news and social media has factionalized and curdled. Carr and Wemple are not the only two to call out partisan media and media at large for mishandling coverage of the Martin case, or misrepresenting specific aspects of it. Nor are NBC or Business Insider (chastised by Carr for mishandling dubious photos) the only two to have erred in their coverage. We'll end with an exchange from Something's Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson (Harry) and Diane Keaton (Erica): Harry: I have never lied to you. I have always told you some version of the truth. Erica Barry: The truth doesn't have versions, okay?
In Florida it's best to be armed and if following or if followed, shoot first. The fastest gun wins and the righteous lives and the guilty dies. The dead doesn't have an alibi.
That is beyond category. The is the worst leftist edit I could imagine. Inciting race wars. You want talk about hate crimes. The FCC should sell their stations to someone exhibiting far more journalistic integrity, like the comedy channel or the onion.
Martin would be alive if Zimmerman would of acted responsibile and not followed the teenager as instructed. This fact is irrefutable.
Being followed doesn't justify assault and attempted murder dumbass. So much for that high IQ you claim.
Quote from bigarrow: Martin would be alive if Zimmerman would of acted responsibile and not followed the teenager as instructed. This fact is irrefutable.
It's also irrelevant. Martin would be alive if he hadn't started a fight with a guy who was armed. Martin saw a short dumpy guy and thought here was a chance to whoop some ass. Big mistake.