Posted on 12/08/2012 1:58:08 PM PST by Uncle Chip
On Thursday, George Zimmerman filed suit against NBC News and three NBC producers he accuses of intentionally painting him as a racist. Zimmerman and his attorneys have now done what many in the new media only dream of doing, holding the major media responsible for their biased and misleading output.
The language in the complaint is blunt. It calls NBC's coverage "yellow journalism" and refers to "journalistic crimes." Most broadly, the complaint accuses NBC of trumping up a racism narrative for ratings, with a name check of the Today Show and Rev. Al Sharpton in particular. Here are some of the highlights or, if you prefer, the media's lowlights from the complaint:
1] NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain. Their goal was simple: keep their viewers alarmed, and thus always watching, by menacing them with a reprehensible series of imaginary and exaggerated racist claims.
2] NBC created this false and defamatory mis-impression using the oldest form of yellow journalism: manipulating Zimmerman's own words, splicing together disparate parts of the recording to create the illusion of statements that Zimmerman never actually made.
3] Defendants pounced on the Zimmerman/Martin matter because they knew this tragedy could be, with proper sensationalizing and manipulation, a racial poweder keg that could result in months, if not years, of topics for their failing news programs, particularly the plummeting ratings for their ailing Today Show.
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I’d ask for so much money that NBC would cease to exist.
You have got to be kidding. They will go bankrupt before changing their ways.
That works too.
He now has deep pockets. Look up the Beasly Law firm of Pa. They will not settle. They are specifically asking for a jury. This firm has clout and this is just the beginning. Lots more actors after this. His life is in ruins and he has nothing else to do. May as well make a career out of it.
Next James Holmes, the Tea Partier defamed by ABC, as the Aurora shooter.
Keep suing news outlets that do this until they just can't function anymore. Tie them up in court for years.
Make them PAY.
2] NBC created this false and defamatory mis-impression using the oldest form of yellow journalism: manipulating Zimmerman's own words, splicing together disparate parts of the recording to create the illusion of statements that Zimmerman never actually made.
Oh please, please be right.
Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara has been impressive so far.
Hey, girl!
Getting your holiday cheer on, Albion?
I could use a little holiday cheer. Too bad I don’t drink. LOL!
Find the highest tax rate a lib has proposed for the wealthy on any NBC owned network and demand that percentage of all pre-tax income NBC makes, for the next 20 years. That should kill them off.
That’s great the Beasley firm has deep pockets. But will Zimmerman wait it out? I’ve read he and his wife have money problems.
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The firm will bankroll a nice existance for him while this plays out... Bank on it.
When even left-wing tool Jon Stewart is ripping ABC a new one over their handling of the situation, then brother, you're in deep 0bama.
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