What's the biggest reason for Blacks not advancing
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tschu
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carlfense
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Junior
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Conga3
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You are discounting the reporter's bias too much.
It's not in their best interest to collect "news" that shows the police in a favorable light.
They are doing a job. That job is to collect video and photos their editors/producers will want to publish because it's news that people want to consume.
A photo of a reporter running away from tear gas is "more valuable" as news than a balanced written account that lead up to the police using tear gas near the reporter.
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I don't doubt that the police has taken unjustifiable actions against reporters. They also have a bias, as they view the reporters as the antithesis of what they are trying to accomplish.
The police's job right now is to prevent violence. You could argue the reporter's job right now is to incite more violence.
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I'm glad there are reporters who are on the ground, putting themselves at risk to hold the police (and all parties) accountable for what they are doing, but it wasn't that long ago the reporters themselves weren't the news.
If a reporter had a brush up with a cop, that used to be dismissed as non-news...in favor of focusing the reporting efforts on the actual situation.
Today, however, there isn't that same desire to keep themselves out of the news (the reporters). They are too willing to report on their own experiences from their own perspectives now.
Kinda like those asshats who go stand on a beach while a hurricane approaches...when a static camera is safer and accomplishes the "news" reporting aspect of the devastation.
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A quick example might be that one female reporter that was raped while trying to cover the Arab Spring protests. (in Egypt maybe?)
It wasn't news that night - in conjunction with the news on the protests - that the protesters had raped a reporter - although it could have been. Instead, It took some days or weeks for a "side" story to come out regarding her rape.
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My point is, the reporters themselves are not supposed to be the story. When they start becoming the story the reporting becomes drastically skewed.
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carlfense
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StPaulHusker
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I didn't click through all of them, but the ones I did read basically made a point that I haven't disputed: racial bias exists.
My response: and? That isn't something you can legislate out of existence.
Well, I believe this is pretty much the first time I've ever seen you advocate less government.
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BigRedBuster
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Congo...
I think you really are missing the point on this. Try putting down the left wing media conspiracy theory for a minute.
If a reporter is mistreated and the freedom of the press is threatened, THAT is a story in and of itself. Even clear back to the 1968 Democratic convention, media were ruffed up and that was a story.
Now, I have been very vocal on here about my distaste for the media. However, in the cases that have been shown here, I don't see how anyone can say the police are justified.
The police are in a position that THEY have to be the moral high ground. Simply arresting media people for sitting in a McDonalds is so far from that it's inconceivable that someone would defend it.
Again, the police need to be using the media and not abusing them. If you want media people to go against you....well.....they are writing the text book on that.
I think you really are missing the point on this. Try putting down the left wing media conspiracy theory for a minute.
If a reporter is mistreated and the freedom of the press is threatened, THAT is a story in and of itself. Even clear back to the 1968 Democratic convention, media were ruffed up and that was a story.
Now, I have been very vocal on here about my distaste for the media. However, in the cases that have been shown here, I don't see how anyone can say the police are justified.
The police are in a position that THEY have to be the moral high ground. Simply arresting media people for sitting in a McDonalds is so far from that it's inconceivable that someone would defend it.
Again, the police need to be using the media and not abusing them. If you want media people to go against you....well.....they are writing the text book on that.
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knapplc
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If this weren't so obviously a straw man I'd ask for examples of accused "liberals" like me, carlfense, Junior, tschu, et al, advocating big government in this forum.
carlfense
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Well, when you find yourself on the wrong side of the facts you can either admit error or try to change the subject. (Or I suppose you can leave the conversation . . . like the Global Warming Pause thread.)
carlfense
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You....can't be serious.
The global warming thread is full of calls for government action to combat climate change.
The Obamacare thread....
The wealth inequality thread.
The Elizabeth Warren commandments for progressives thread.
Those are just the explicit examples from page one.
I must've missed something over the weekend. I had/have three basic beliefs about climate change: it's happening and humans are a factor, future consequences are uncertain, and if climate alarmists are right, we're all screwed because there's no way we're going to do what they want in the time frame that they want. Naturally, I'm branded a knuckledragger because I'm not a disciple of the Goracle, but that's not a point to pound into the ground.