>>>>>I just think media circuses bring out the clowns.
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>>>>Yes and it's freakin annoying too. Can't even turn on my TV - thankfully since I live where I do my TV intake time is small - but like I give a crap about what the witness's sister's aunt's friend who walked a dog that used to be owned by her friend's uncle that bought a used car from this guy over here who's connected to the case this way thinks about blah blah blah OMG shut the hell up already!
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>>>I had some rare alone time one night last week & decided to pop on the "news". Started with CNBC (scripted) so on to Fox (Zim), CNN(Zim), MS(Zim). Switched on the music and out to my garden I went.
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>>It was a huge news story so of course they were all covering it. The choice to garden instead is of course yours but you can't complain about the coverage.
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>There is a difference between covering the news and beating the horse to a pulp. All it does is promote the racial hatred that is developing over the jury's verdict.

I agree with you John. The media is throwing fuel on the fire. Then they interrupt it with commercials. When events like this happen I avoid “the news”.

So far two freeways have been temporarily closed by protestors, property has been damaged and several people have been assaulted. The police in Oakland are not trying to intervene.