ERIK WEMPLE: "....Indeed the media committed atrocities in covering the encounter between Zimmerman and Martin.....Yet to posit that the media and activists orchestrated a national issue gives too little credit to the nation. Simply put, people across the country were horrified that a 17-year-old kid walking through a neighborhood with candy and a soft drink could have ended up shot to death. They didn’t NEED the media to tell them to get out and demand Zimmerman’s arrest, or simply to express solidarity with the victim. ... Folks everywhere — OF ALL RACES AND BACKGROUNDS — saw something outrageous in what happened on Feb. 26, 2012. They recognized it. And they reacted in a way that no one from CNN, no one from Fox News, no one from ABC News could make them react....Yet discussion of what made the case a national story — i.e., treatment of black folks minding their own business — shouldn’t wind down. That’s a real issue, a real story; it even merits wall-to-wall trial coverage. And dismissing it as a media-authored construct is a dangerous evasion."
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:26:50 +0000
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