>
>He did fire the weapon. That is not in dispute.

That was never in dispute. My point is that the initial narrative (which held for weeks) was that Zimmerman was a huge racist who walked up to Martin and shot him. MSNBC in particular pushed that narrative hard. Their reporting was not only horrible, but dishonest - they edited the 911 tape when they played it on air, and took out portions of the dialog, to try to make it look like Zimmerman was a racist. They are the most disgraceful of all the cable news shows.