You can clearly see the damage, including blood under the scalp, in the video.
I don't think that's Photoshopped. The picture was taken on an iPhone and supposedly GPS information confirms the location and time -- about three minutes after the shooting. The person who took the photograph claims to have seen powder burns on the front of Trayvon Martin's hoodie.
I don't know if all this is accurate. If it is, the prosecutor, Corey, is the one who should be in jail -- especially if she had this evidence available.
Should we perhaps assume the community would be happier if Zimmerman were dead or in a coma and Trayvon Martin had accumulated his street creds?
The mainstream media is a propaganda machine to sell advertising. It is all about eyeballs on the screen -- that's cable as well as broadcast. The media is not about truth. Never has been. It is a business, and in this business model, sensationalism sells. It is only made worse by involving government funding -- PBS -- since that turns it into a pure propaganda machine beholden to the funding source.
The reason ABC is going with this story now is simply to get more eyeballs on their screen. The story was dying down. The bond hearing today is mostly procedural -- not sensational -- but this is photograph and the accompanying information is going to get people watching. New buzz equals happy sponsors.
I have no problem with news as a commercial enterprise. I understand it. That is the way it should be. Just don't expect me to accept journalism as objective and noble. It is what it is. Watch it. Watch it with full knowledge of what is behind it, which will give you discernment. You know: Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
That's not the bloody head of Zimmerman that many want to see. Interesting. I noticed that they still had to editorialize at the end of the news report about Zimmerman's profiling and not following the dispatcher's advice. Also interesting from the report is Martin's parents saying they know the prosecutors have seen all this evidence and are still pursuing the case. What does the prosecution have? (Celebrity fever?)
ReplyDeleteOff with his head! Exactly.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, I think the prosecutor probably felt some pressure from the DOJ to return an indictment. They did not want it to look like a cover-up. That doesn't really excuse what was done. Going to a grand jury would still have been the right thing.
The parents and their attorney appear to looking for a payday. I'm not sure they can sue if the court, a grand jury, or the prosecutor had called it self-defense. Zimmerman can still be charged with a violation of Martin's "civil rights" as was done to the cops who beat Rodney King.
It is so nice to be able to edit, cut and splice to fit the agenda. It is just a shame that so many amateurs are out there with those darn smart phones.
Yes, ubiquitous cameras are really changing the world, for the better. Funny, where did all the UFOs go?
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