Michael Brown case: Media hype trumps appeal for calm in Ferguson

FoxNews.com ^ | November 18, 2014 | Dan Gainor

[Biggirl]

Ferguson, Mo., is sadly back in the news. The city and an eager media anticipate a grand jury decision in the possible indictment of Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of an African-American teenager.

[Biggirl]

You would think that the cold chill of November would keep protesters HOME. Oh Ferguson, this is NOT August anymore.

[tomkat]

             

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Ferguson demonstrations are now a bigger issue than Michael Brown death due to outside aggitation .
It's all about the media hype, now that CNN still cant find the Malasyian plane,Huffington-Fluffington reporters financed by fundme.com, and more.
Outside aggitators who have no interest in Ferguson except to exaccerbate the sitution for their own reasons,
such the Black Panthers (from LA), the "JUST-US" Dept.,community organizers from Chicago, Boston, and Florida, etc.
But the crux of this problem is the media and "the most transparent administration ever" which met clandestinely with the organizers on 11/5/14,
right after a political drubbing, whereby it's policies and AGENDA were thouroughly rejected by the voters.

[mosesdapoet]

Nov 5th was the day before a major election when the US POTUS who could have completely dissassociated himself and condemed it. Instead by met with the Ferguson protest group offers support for protests by telling the group “To stay the course.” Generated by his use of the “Bully Pulpit” and through surrogates in the black media and the MSM Promoting the fiction of an “unarmed” shot in the back while surrendering afro american teen.

Think there will be any connection made to what our fearless leader is doing by enciting this racial strife and any attempt to restore a constitutional government?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The outside aggitators will leave eventually ,
leaving the citizens of Ferguson to clean up after them ,
and then Ferguson will get on with their lives,
and try to shirk the stigma that outsiders have needlessly given them.

[Shery]

It would not surprise me if I learned that the media was behind ALL the protesting and vandalism. They want the chaos. They need a story. Even if they must motivate the story, themselves.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Now if this were multiple cases of ebola they would be crying out for CALM. But no, they are liberals and liberals thrive on racism.

The mob getting ready to riot is a pack of violent racists, hypocrites, and criminals.

[A Navy Vet]

I so hope the Grand Jury finds a justified shooting. If so, then I will buy massive amounts of popcorn to watch Franken, Jackson, and all the other race-baiters encourage the riots. Sure Obambi and Holder will say some stupid thing to discourage the riots, but also say something that is contradictory.

I'll sit here in my home office on my computer and laugh my *ss off as they burn down their town. Just hope there are some Korean types (think LA riots) that will stand fast with weapons locked and loaded.

In the old days, rioters would be shot. Just saying...

[william clark]

No, the cold will only motivate them to burn more things, and sooner. Now, a night of freezing rain might be helpful.

[norwaypinesavage]

The problem lies solely with the media. The main stream media meme is that Brown was killed without provocation by a racist cop. They are still hyping that line. They have mostly ignored the significant findings that Brown was a thug that had just strong arm robbed a store using his size as a weapon. He then turned on the cop and attempted to overpower him, as well.

The people doing the demonstrating listen only to Al Sharpton and his ilk, and are unaware that there is another side to the story, one that exonerates the policeman.

[I want the USA back]

All the media is crowing about the forthcoming violence. The truth is that they WANT it. They love it and will rush their cameras to film it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I’ve been screaming for years: “media” is an exceedingly imprecise term. Granted that fiction movies and TV have had strong tendencies toward the Grubercrats, fiction is fiction - you can’t take fiction on piecemeal, and if you do you must take on all fiction. Way too hard, way too broad a target.

We have to call out the “domestic enemy,” as you put it, explicitly by its actual name, wire service journalism. When journalists are “associated,” you can’t expect them to be independent of each other. But all the biggies belong to the Associated Press.       

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. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

[DaveA37]

“Ferguson.....back in the news”?

When did it ever leave the news? I have been reading stories about this since August 6th. It isn’t over, its just getting started (again and again). The media has been, and wants to hype this story forever as they look for that BIG STORY to sell their garbage news. Stop giving Ferguson rioters and protesters their 15 minutes of fame and things just may calm down a bit. Nope, it ain’t gonna happen.

[tomkat]

An excellent quote from A.Smith, proof for which is foisted on the citizenry daily.

And while your point re 'wire services' is well taken, it is but a symptom of the underlying malady, imho.

I would assert that the primary contagion is the glut of socialist indoctrination machines that presume to call themselves 'schools of journalism'.
In churning out their legions of leftist drones - either incapable of, or hostile to, critical thinking and objective reporting - the inevitable casualty is Truth.

To the extent that any individual 'reporter' is muzzled therefrom by their entrenched doctrine and/or blinding ambition, to such extent do they side with the enemies of Truth.

/.02

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I would assert that the primary contagion is the glut of socialist indoctrination machines that presume to call themselves 'schools of journalism'.

Yes, but where do they come from?? What they teach is only what the AP has been teaching since the Civil War. Some of it actually good, in the structure of a news article.

But the fundamental problem lies in the assumption that journalism is objective. Note, I did not say, “the fact that journalists are objective,” and I did not say, “the effort of journalist to try to be objective.” It is the claim of actual objectivity which is central to grubercratic politics. Once recognize the plain-as-the-gruber-on-your-face fact that journalism is politics, not objectivity, and you delegitimate not only the FEC and all “campaign finance reform” but all efforts of the FCC to control “fairness.”

The Constitution forbids titles of nobility and it forbids government-established priesthoods - but we now have - have had, since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary - an established press. Lots of different outlets, but only one press - the associated press. Able to enforce an orthodoxy onto the public conversation, which is only now being even dented by the new media.

[KeyLargo]

This morning on Chicago WLS AM radio 890, traffic news reader and anti-White - Ms. Kelli Walker at the 7:00 AM hour went off against radio host Bruce Wolfe calling him a racist for basically saying that Michael Brown was a thug.

http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/5990-wls-am-hires-kelli-walker-as-morning-traffic-reporter

http://www.wlsam.com/common/more.php?m=102&is_corp=0&r=41&title=bruceanddan

[Biggirl]

I think now because of the very cold weather, that any protests are going to be brief at best.

[tomkat]

Thanks for the response, tho I kinda knew that first question would be your/someone's first question .. lol

Chores beckon so gotta scoot, but will revisit your reply asap.