unjust on that basis and every tubt to prove it you re going to take it even if you have to make it up. this is like the duke lacrosse case. there was no evidence what so ever to support any of the contentions the media made or the faculty at duke. this is the same thing. i had a story today, judicial watch, got ahold of documents from justice. the freedom of information, and there s a community relations service, part of doj, which, by it s name, is supposed to go down and help facilitate community peace, coming together and so forth. these people, from the doj, were down sponsoring rallies prior to this trial. sponsoring people getting together a bust protestors in sanford, florida. the doj was invested in this being seen as racism and unfairness and unjustness against this kid trayvon martin and they can t let go of it and that s why there s wall to wall
sort of see it as it happens and see it from reliable people. in this case, you know, it s almost picture perfect and very much at odds, by the way, with some of the subsequent tweets. because minutes later, people were tweeting photos of a plane that was badly disabled from a different angle, raging fires, you know, obviously deadly, and a very different kind of a take. so, you get not one but multiple sort of eyewitness accounts. josh, that s a great point errol makes because this actually does cut through the fog of war, it does cut through the misinformation because you get these indelible examples in realtime. but let s add perspective to this conversation, because perspective is always the thing we have least of in our media cycles today. it crashes. this gets wall-to-wall coverage. it is horrific, it is startling, but the fact is that crashes are dramatically less frequent than they were just a few decades ago. we looked up, and the ntsb does records of investigations. these a
i completely agree. there are some people who say na race has something has something to do with this wall-to-wall coverage on cable tv. i don t agree he with that it doesn t have something to do with it. it has everything to do with it. if this were a black-on-black crime, this wouldn t get three seconds on national tv. let alone three weeks or three months or whatever it turns out to be this is the great american drama. here you have a victim who is a black teenager who was unarmed. and here you have the shooter, who is perceived as white. he is actually a light-skinned hispanic but close enough, so you have this great american drama where liberals in the media think it s still 1965 in mississippi, is a black man ever going to get justice? is a white man going to get away with murder again? this is how the story is being portrayed in part. okay.
i completely agree. there are some people who say na race has something has something to do with this wall-to-wall coverage on cable tv. i don t agree he with that it doesn t have something to do with it. it has everything to do with it. if this were a black-on-black crime, this wouldn t get three seconds on national tv. let alone three weeks or three months or whatever it turns out to be this is the great american drama. here you have a victim who is a black teenager who was unarmed. and here you have the shooter, who is perceived as white. he is actually a light-skinned hispanic but close enough, so you have this great american drama where liberals in the media think it s still 1965 in mississippi, is a black man ever going to get justice? is a white man going to get away with murder again? this is how the story is being portrayed in part. okay.
there are some people who say na race has something has something to do with this wall-to-wall coverage on cable tv. i don t agree he with that it doesn t have something to do with it. it has everything to do with it. if this were a black-on-black crime, this wouldn t get three seconds on national tv. let alone three weeks or three months or whatever it turns out to be this is the great american drama. here you have a victim who is a black teenager who was unarmed. and here you have the shooter, who is perceived as white. he is actually a light-skinned hispanic but close enough, so you have this great american drama where liberals in the media think it s still 1965 in mississippi, is a black man ever going to get justice? is a white man going to get away with murder again? this is how the story is being portrayed in part. okay.