This post is about media bias/manipulation.
My local evening news referred to the incident as the “gunning down” of … Now when I hear that someone was gunned down, I think that someone purposefully sought out an innocent, defenseless person and shot them with a gun. Like something out of a western. This case had a fistfight first, and we don’t know yet who started it.
Hannity’s TV show played a clip from NBC news where they edited the 911 tape, leaving out the police dispatcher’s questions, making it sound like Zimmerman said something like “he looks suspicious, he’s black.”
This is wrong for the media to do. And I hate being manipulated with, not lies, but words whose purpose is to make me believe a lie. Dissembling, misleading, shading, whatever you want to call it.
So why? As someone else wrote, is it to disarm our citizens? Is it to get the race issue forward to re-elect Obama? Is it to distract us from the religious rights (HHS) issue? IS it simply just to divide and conquer?
SwizzleStick;9125921:
The media has behaved in a descipable manner in the way they have handled this case. You ask very good questions as to why they have done what they have done.