Posted on 07/17/2013 1:40:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There are many lessons to be learned from the media miscoverage of the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin.
We’ve dealt repeatedly with the false “hoodie” and racial narratives, the ludicrous audio and video analyzes, and the misunderstanding of the role Stand Your Ground played [actually, did not play] in the case.
We’ve seen post-trial articles about how the prosecution failed to “humanize” Trayvon, without addressing that the prosecution deliberately didn’t go there because it would have brought into evidence Trayvon’s history of fighting, drug use and illegal weapons possession. Rachel Jeantel’s post-trial interview on CNN also raised the possibility that the fight was started by Trayvon out of homophobic fear that Zimmerman was a sexual predator.
In this sea of media malpractice, one enduring fabrication lives on despite conclusive trial testimony, the concept that Zimmerman was ordered, instructed, or told not to get out of his car by the 911 operator.
I completely debunked this concept when it was assumed by Jonathan Capehart at WaPo, In busting Zimmerman myths, Jonathan Capehart perpetuates the greatest myth of all. I emailed Capehart about it, he responded “fair point,” and as of this writing the offending comment about Zimmerman being told not to get out of this car no longer is in Capehart’s column. Good for him.
But the myth lives on in part because other media is not as responsible......
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“Humanizing” Trayvon would have to include the very real datum that he was NOT a 12-year-old kid as so often he was depicted in the run-up to the trial, but a hulking, sullen pothead with an attitude about “crazy-azz cracka” people prowling around the neighborhood. Never mind the “crazy-azz cracka” was the neighborhood patrol, and was there at the invitation of and under the authority of the homeowners’ association.
The road is a private road inside the gated community and the sidewalks are HOA common areas.
The only thing missing is the pending beatification by the Vatican of his holiness, Trayvon Martin.
And that’s another untruth which lives on - that GZ called 911 -he didn’t.
Reminds me of how the lie that Sarah Palin said she can see Russia from her house lives on. Oh, how I hate the media in this country. I can’t totally blame them when the low information citizens refuse to do the hard work of searching out the truth, rather they have to be spoon fed. The libs know this and its the reason they get away with it.
They’ll probably think it’s just the fact on the case.
Soap in a sponge”?
That’s the whole reason I read the article.
It’s not explained.
My guess it’s like trying to wring the soap out of sponge. No matter how many times you do it, there’s always some left.
By analogy, no matter how many times you debunk the factual errors, they keep coming out.
Actuallt the term is soap on a rope.
#17 — spewing pre-dinner glass of wine over the keyboard!
I thought that Rachel Jeantel, at one point, said that Martin was on his porch when he was talking with her. If I heard that correctly, it would have meant that Martin left the safety of his home in order to confront Zimmerman. Did anyone else catch that or did I mishear it?
“He called 411 not 911.”
That is not correct either. I don’t have the call record in front of me but it was a 10 digit number.
A FReeper mailed that to me. Funny, ain’t it?
You’re right. It was just a NEN (non emergency number) for the Sanford PD. Unlike the media I’ll admit my mistake instead of repeating it until our sun supernovas.
>>>>I thought that Rachel Jeantel, at one point, said that Martin was on his porch when he was talking with her. If I heard that correctly, it would have meant that Martin left the safety of his home in order to confront Zimmerman. Did anyone else catch that or did I mishear it?<<<<
I vaguely seem to remember something like this...can anyone clarify? TIA
It was the non emergency number which would be a regular number, not a 411 or a 911.
Yesterday on CNN, Wolf Blitzer said something about Zimmerman being told to stay in his car (incorrect!) and it was echoed by several other people later in the day.
The nuances of language escape many people. “We don’t need you to do that” is not the same as the directive, “Don’t do that.” It can be interpreted as “You don’t need to do that [for the purposes of reporting to us].” It leaves it open for doing it for your own reasons. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether some of the newsies are deliberately misinterpreting or whether they’re just dumb and cannot think for themselves.
It does not really matter whether he was actually ordered to stay in his car or not. He had every right to be where he was. AFAIK, all Zimmerman believed Trayvon was doing was casing houses, not looking for a fight. My experience with thieves is that want to get the goods and go, not stand around and start fights.
In this sea of media malpractice, one enduring fabrication lives on despite conclusive trial testimony, the concept that Zimmerman was ordered, instructed, or told not to get out of his car by the 911 operator.
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