Subj : Bad reporting
To   : MOONDOG
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 09:56:00

> In the early 80's the CNN cable network got it's fame for reporting "news as
> it happens."  Unfortunately this reporting being done is all
> hypothesis, conjecture, and poorly researched and possibly false story
> telling.

Some of the local (Louisville) TV stations got into the "keeping up with
the Jonses" game and performed similar reporting for a few years.  I think
they got the message that their local viewers didn't like that and have
gone back to less sensationalism and not reporting things that turn out to
be the opposite later.

> During the period of the Beltway Shootings, there were no witnesses or evidenc
> e left, but they were already rpofiled as white extremists drving around in a
> work van.  It turned out to be a black man and younger black male (step son?)
> thta fired shots through the keyhole in back of a trunk lid of a car.

I remember that.  There have been several instances recently where a
shooting or other violence happens, white extremists are theorized to
blame, and then the story suddenly drops from the news cycle when it is
found they were not.  The muslim man who was killing other muslims in the
SW US earlier this year is one example.  A couple of instances of workplace
violence earlier in the year were also originally blamed on white
extremists but turned out otherwise and quickly fell out of the news.

> The
> Atlanta Olympic Bombing was blamed on the security guard who found the bomb an
> d hovered over the bomb to protect others from shrapnel.  When it became
> known he had been rejected for a police job, they all assumed he cooked up
> the bombing in order to become the hero of the day.  look how the news tried
> to destroy Kyle Rittenhouse?

The FBI helped destroy the security guard in Atlanta, which made things
even worse as the news had a supposedly (but not really) reliable source
for their misinformation.

Some of the things that came out during the Rittenhouse trial sure were
interesting, and it is certainly another good example.


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