To abridge, NBC News is saying it has some company.
. . . which is precisely what the Zimmerman lawsuit should attack. That’s not an excuse, it’s a conspiracy. “The mainstream media” is merely a weak circumlocution for the Associated Press. And Adam Smith told us what to expect from that bunch over two centuries ago:People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch 10The AP “wire” is nothing but a continuous virtual meeting of all the members of the AP, which has been running continuously since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Nothing could be more natural than that the members of the AP would conspire against the public in general and George Zimmerman in particular.The article goes on to suggest that Zimmerman’s case against NBC would be mooted if the case were held back until after the murder trial, and Zimmerman were convicted. I consider that to be a very superficial analysis. After all, who thinks that the propaganda campaign against Zimmerman, including four-year-old picture of innocence Trayvon Martin, had nothing to do with the fact that Zimmerman is in the docket at all???
And whatever happened to the inalienable right of a guilty Democrat (and Zimmerman is a Democrat who has been turned into an “honorary” white Republican) to try to beat the rap? After all, that was what Bill Clintons’ mounting a defense in the Paula Jones case was all about. Not about “see[ing] that the law be faithfully executed” - the duty of a president - but about exercising the right of a private citizen to try to beat the rap.