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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 03:08 PM Aug 2014

CNN has been working overtime to discredit any and all witness accounts of Mike Brown shooting.

All day yesterday and so far all day today and I'm about to throw shit at the goddamn TV.



WHY? What is in it for CNN to engage in this relentless campaign against the witnesses. This is why others will not come forward.

SMDH!

When will I learn???

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JI7

(89,247 posts)
1. the black people who were there must be lying because it goes against what the white person
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 03:21 PM
Aug 2014

who was not there is saying.

i get tired of this shit.

just saw today they put up witnesses and included that "josie" person. at least anderson cooper callled it out as not being a witness .

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
2. I changed the mode of my TV to HDMI and now I'm watching kitteh vids on Youtube in
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 03:53 PM
Aug 2014

order to calm me down and to save my TV from destruction.

Cha

(297,154 posts)
3. This obviously meant nothing to them, CTD.. :(
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 09:04 PM
Aug 2014


#ItsBiggerThanYou: Atlanta protesters challenge CNN’s Michael Brown reporting

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the CNN center in Atlanta on Monday to march in memory of unarmed Missouri teenager Michael Brown who was gunned down by a police officer, many in protest of CNN’s controversial coverage of the incident.

Demonstrators who had been urged to attend dressed in their “Sunday’s best” marched under the slogan: “How good must we look to be considered innocent?” and used the #ItsBiggerThanYou hashtag.

The protest was staged in response to CNN’s Ferguson protests coverage, which had a strong emphasis on past actions by Brown which may have incriminated him. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as many as 1,000 protesters marched.


More to the story..
http://rt.com/usa/181456-cnn-protests-rally-brown/

"Participants and observers also took to Twitter to denounce CNN’s lack of coverage of a protest directly outside its offices."
 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
7. Wow, Cha! I had no idea that had happened. Good for those people for
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 10:32 AM
Aug 2014

calling CNN on the carpet.

And during all that time I was watching CNN, that was going on? Funny, I didn't see any reports from CNN about the protest outside their front door while they were busily reporting on the protests in Ferguson. Go figure, eh?

I knew I was not imagining CNN's character assassination of everyone except Wilson.

I hope it continues.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. For years and years CNN has been and probably always will be Foxnews Lite.
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 09:10 PM
Aug 2014

CNN is a horrible station with the same neocon agenda as Foxnews. If people only knew how little these infortainment corporations care about them as individuals...it is sad.

Poor minorities are treated like enemy-combatants. CNN will social engineer that all day long to keep people stupid and glued to their channel. Foxnews is shameless at it.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
5. they did shoot down the "fractured eye socket"
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 09:23 PM
Aug 2014

Apparently he had a "puffy face" so they x-rayed and found no breaks.

(Warning: the clip at link ends with Nancy Grace)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017210675

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
8. They did it by burying her in the middle of all the other discrediting they were doing so
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 11:12 AM
Aug 2014

that, when taken as a whole, one would (hopefully to CNN) would question all witness accounts that go against the officer. So, if Dorian Johnson is questionable, perhaps they are all quetionable.

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
11. They've been horrible for decades, true.
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 11:26 AM
Aug 2014

Sadly, it takes a story like this for them to demonstrate how horrible they really are.


As for your viewing habits, I was asking the question as an expression of sympathy!

 

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)
13. Remember When...
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 01:09 PM
Aug 2014

Remember way back when CNN was considered a liberal network? Sad to see them morth in to foxnews lite.

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
14. Do I remember?!? I heard that claim earlier this week!
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 01:26 PM
Aug 2014

Can you believe it? I know people who still refer to it as the "Clinton News Network" because of its allegedly favorable, allegedly pro-Democrat reportage. Bah!

 

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)
15. Back In the Before Time
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 02:19 PM
Aug 2014

Elders have tales of "The before time". They would often tell tales of when CNN would stand up to the right wing and provide true journalism. But I think it is just the old age and to much peyote talking. lol

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