Why is the bear attack getting more coverage than the NOLA bridge slaughter verdict

[malaise]

Fuck you M$Greedia

[babylonsister]

1. What verdict?

I haven't heard a word about that; the cops who shot people w/o a second thought after Katrina? :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Yep they were found guilty yesterday

[babylonsister]

15. YAY! nt

[malaise]

4. Here

Not one network covered this yesterday

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/katrina-danziger-bridge-katrina-shooting-verdict_n_919502.html
<snip>
A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former New Orleans police officers of civil rights violations in one of the lowest moments for city police in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: the shooting deaths of a teenager and a mentally disabled man as they crossed a bridge in search of food and help.

The case was a high-stakes test of the Justice Department's effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of lawlessness and desperation.

Shaun Clarke, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor who moved from New Orleans to Houston after Katrina, said the verdicts are "critically important" to the Justice Department's reform efforts.

"It's a huge verdict for the government," he said. "Of all the cases concerning alleged misconduct by police officers after Katrina, this was the one that had the highest national profile."

[LaydeeBug]

10. I just wished it didn't need a "high national profile" to warrant justice. nt

[babylonsister]

16. Thanks! nt

[Karmadillo]

2. It's amazing, but the NOLA crimes probably reveal more about the USA than TPTB want us to know.

nt

[malaise]

6. And the coverup by M$Greedia tells us even more

:fistbump:

[whathehell]

13. Don't paint the entire USA with the colors of the NOLA police

They're in their own class.

[Karmadillo]

20. Maybe first in class, but serious police corruption is not just a NOLA problem.

nt

[whathehell]

21. I agree, but it seems

you've extended the analogy beyond

police departments to the entire country

in every way and at every level

and that is just way, way too broad.

[snappyturtle]

5. Thank you. I had not heard a word about it. nt

[lonestarnot]

7. Just amazing isn't it.

[malaise]

8. I used to think unfuckingbelievable but these days

it's not even a surprise. They are covering a bear attack on British citizens while ignoring the verdict linked to a major slaughter by cops in the middle of a hurricane disaster.
Ah well - some lives are worth less than others.

[MineralMan]

9. The NOLA verdict got lots more time this morning on CBS

and even the local news. The media is made up of many news sources. Not all are the same.

[malaise]

12. Good to hear

ABC didn't cover this last night and it was nowhere on M$NBComcast

[glinda]

11. Because it is propaganda for drilling and hunting. That is why.

[metalbot]

14. Why do you think that is true?

Looking at the msnbc website right now, both the bear attack and the bridge conviction are covered. The bear attack has 4 short paragraphs. The bridge shooting has a full article as well as video.

The conviction is the lead non-headline story at CNN.com.

There's no coverage on the fox "news" website, and I feel like I need to clean my mouse for having gone there.

[elehhhhna]

17. cuz the bear killed whitey

partly

also why incite an already depressed, etc. crowd?

they've done this shockdoctrine shit before.

little did we know they'd turn it on us.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

18. It is the cute and fuzzy factor

[Gregorian]

19. Could it be Fourth Estate mutiny?

Yes, I knew you could say it. :)



And by mutiny I mean geed obsessed, politically motivated, right wing, corporate conglomerated SATAN.