>>>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>I do not blame that on the news media at all. Racial animosity has been here all along. When you haul people across the ocean in chains it's sort of inevitable, isn't it?
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>>>>Personally I have always found it completely stupid. Why on earth dislike someone, or worse, based on the color of their skin? It's like disliking them based on their hair color.
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>>>What about pre-trial? What blame do you put on the media for the general opinions of the uneducated public?
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>>Not very much. The facts of the matter are pretty much out there. And I do not think the general public are ignorami who need to be educated.
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>The media broke the story of a racist white guy gunning down an innocent black youth. The public's first impressions of this case were of MSNBC's doctored tapes.
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>You don't think that created a dangerous setting? You don't think the media deserves blame for that?

Minor nitpick : It was NBC who aired the doctored tapes on their flagship morning program "Today". If it was MSNBC it wouldn't have mattered since no one watches them. ;)
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