Susan Sontag once famously commented that one could have learned much more about the Soviet Union from 1950 to 1970 from reading the Readers’ Digest than from reading The Nation. I think you might be able to say something similar, though not identical, about the grand jury decision not indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing suspect Michael Brown, namely that one could have had as much difficulty forming a fair and accurate opinion of the decision from watching Fox News as you would from watching MSNBC, which, at least when I was viewing it, devoted one interview after another to discrediting the prosecutors’ statement and the grand jury decision.
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I believe that any 'news person' who covered the Ferguson story who continues to aid and abet the criminality that is going on across the Nation should be prosecuted for being an accessory to the crimes - they lie without conscience to the unsuspecting public, they have incited riots by their willful lies, so why shouldn't they be prosecuted. Is this kind of Evil protected by the 1st Amendment?
ReplyDeleteI believe that any 'news person' who covered the Ferguson story who continues to aid and abet the criminality that is going on across the Nation should be prosecuted for being an accessory to the crimes - they lie without conscience to the unsuspecting public, they have incited riots by their willful lies, so why shouldn't they be prosecuted
DeleteAgree 100%.