TexDanm
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William Randolph Hearst is alive and well in America
Or at least his journalistic philosophy is still going strong. They say he basically pushed the American public into demanding the Spanish American war. The battleship Maine blew up in the Havana Harbor and presto we were at war even though there was NEVER any real indication that the Spanish were in any way involved. Hearst just needed something to increase the sales of his papers. YELLOW Journalism is not what the Freedom of the press is protected for!!!!
As near as I can tell the current news media today is doing the same thing all over again. They are badly misrepresenting the facts over and over making the tensions and misdeeds of almost everyone look worse than they are mostly with outright lies.
Quick example... After the guy was shot in Ferguson the media almost totally interviewed and reported based on statements by the protestors. The entire “He had his hands up and was trying to surrender!” story was based on what the protestors were saying. NONE of whom were there at the time when it happened. The actual witnesses were never interviewed. When it came down to trying to do something with the poor cop, the prosecutor found t hat the people that were actually THERE told a totally different story than those that the media was quoting. When these people were questioned by the cops it was found that none of them saw ANYTHING because they weren't even in the area.
The FACT is that the number of black people shot by cops isn't rising at all and the FACT is that black cops seem to be more likely to shoot a black person than a white cop is. It is also a FACT that the stupid rioters do NOT represent the attitudes of the black community. Most black people are not out there rioting and in FACT many went out during the riots and protected their non-black neighbors and businesses or in one case formed a LINE between the cops and the protestors protecting the cops from thrown missiles.
We don't need the media to turn EVERY person that the cops shoot into a racial deal. They only do it when a black person is shot. They even make it a racial thing when the cops that do it are black. They just fail to mention this in the reports where if the cop is white they ALWAYS make sure they tell you that.
The guy that got shot in Houston was NOT in any way a national story. A crazy man had a gun. The police showed up and told him to put the gun down. The guy instead pointed it at the cop and the cop shot him. There is/was no racial issue here. If you point a gun at a cop he has no time and no responsibility to let the guy shoot him. End of story. Only fit fir local news in Houston NOT an international incident!
The Front Page of the New York Post the next day was CIVIL WAR in huge print. I think that is what they want. Most cops are pretty decent people. Nearly all black folks are good people as are most white, brown, red yellow and purple people. Sadly the good people don't get heard from in the media very often.
Even sadder our government doesn't seem to be interested in the good people much either. The criminals have all the rights and the victims just get forgotten. In the City of Chicago a black person shoots and kills another black person every 14 hours. EVERY DAY EVERY WEEK, MONTH AND YEAR...but let a criminal get shot and it is treated like some god awful thing. The entire nation is thrown into turmoil. Why doesn't anyone in the media care about the thousands of victims? Every time something happens the response is only directed at further infringing on the rights of good people. Why can't they ever go after the criminals instead???
Or at least his journalistic philosophy is still going strong. They say he basically pushed the American public into demanding the Spanish American war. The battleship Maine blew up in the Havana Harbor and presto we were at war even though there was NEVER any real indication that the Spanish were in any way involved. Hearst just needed something to increase the sales of his papers. YELLOW Journalism is not what the Freedom of the press is protected for!!!!
As near as I can tell the current news media today is doing the same thing all over again. They are badly misrepresenting the facts over and over making the tensions and misdeeds of almost everyone look worse than they are mostly with outright lies.
Quick example... After the guy was shot in Ferguson the media almost totally interviewed and reported based on statements by the protestors. The entire “He had his hands up and was trying to surrender!” story was based on what the protestors were saying. NONE of whom were there at the time when it happened. The actual witnesses were never interviewed. When it came down to trying to do something with the poor cop, the prosecutor found t hat the people that were actually THERE told a totally different story than those that the media was quoting. When these people were questioned by the cops it was found that none of them saw ANYTHING because they weren't even in the area.
The FACT is that the number of black people shot by cops isn't rising at all and the FACT is that black cops seem to be more likely to shoot a black person than a white cop is. It is also a FACT that the stupid rioters do NOT represent the attitudes of the black community. Most black people are not out there rioting and in FACT many went out during the riots and protected their non-black neighbors and businesses or in one case formed a LINE between the cops and the protestors protecting the cops from thrown missiles.
We don't need the media to turn EVERY person that the cops shoot into a racial deal. They only do it when a black person is shot. They even make it a racial thing when the cops that do it are black. They just fail to mention this in the reports where if the cop is white they ALWAYS make sure they tell you that.
The guy that got shot in Houston was NOT in any way a national story. A crazy man had a gun. The police showed up and told him to put the gun down. The guy instead pointed it at the cop and the cop shot him. There is/was no racial issue here. If you point a gun at a cop he has no time and no responsibility to let the guy shoot him. End of story. Only fit fir local news in Houston NOT an international incident!
The Front Page of the New York Post the next day was CIVIL WAR in huge print. I think that is what they want. Most cops are pretty decent people. Nearly all black folks are good people as are most white, brown, red yellow and purple people. Sadly the good people don't get heard from in the media very often.
Even sadder our government doesn't seem to be interested in the good people much either. The criminals have all the rights and the victims just get forgotten. In the City of Chicago a black person shoots and kills another black person every 14 hours. EVERY DAY EVERY WEEK, MONTH AND YEAR...but let a criminal get shot and it is treated like some god awful thing. The entire nation is thrown into turmoil. Why doesn't anyone in the media care about the thousands of victims? Every time something happens the response is only directed at further infringing on the rights of good people. Why can't they ever go after the criminals instead???