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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTV News station edits video to "thuggify" a 4 year old African American boy
For those white people, like me, that never fully understood the magnitude of the war being waged on African Americans in the U.S., the last few weeks have been an eye opening and sobering experience. And this is yet another example of the sort of silent tyranny being experienced by some Americans. Fucking disgusting.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)Nice edit of WHY he is going to have a gun. Fucking pricks.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Honestly, whoever came up with the idea of cutting that video needs to be fired.....yes, even if there may not have been racist intent(which is possible).
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Good fucking god, how evil is this media machine.
And how do we trust ANYTHING they tell us...about ourselves, about politicians, about people in the countries we bomb...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)and we really should be alarmed if a 4 year old is so scared he feels like he has to arm himself like an middleaged, overweight, white man.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)The edit was ridiculously, obviously, changing the intent.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)either way though it's sad. He was unjustly smeared and used to promote an agenda. But, even worse is that those pushing it haven't though of or don't care what the implication is, if real life events happened the way they slanted them.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Kid sounds like he wants to protect people. Yet those souless, vapid jerks just had to smear him.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MSM is only interested in $$$$$ and will only air what brings in the dollars, and lie like hell to achieve it.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)NealK
(1,879 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)DAngelo136
(265 posts)"...This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one whiteseparate and unequal.
Reaction to last summers disorders has quickened the movement and deepened the division. Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American.
This deepening racial division is not inevitable. The movement apart can be reversed. Choice is still possible. Our principal task is to define that choice and to press for a national resolution.
To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values.
"The alternative is not blind repression or capitulation to lawlessness. It is the realization of common opportunities for all within a single society.
This alternative will require a commitment to national actioncompassionate, massive and sustained, backed by the resources of the most powerful and the richest nation on this earth. From every American it will require new attitudes, new understanding, and, above all, new will.
The vital needs of the nation must be met; hard choices must be made, and, if necessary, new taxes enacted.
Violence cannot build a better society. Disruption and disorder nourish repression, not justice. They strike at the freedom of every citizen. The community cannotit will nottolerate coercion and mob rule.
Violence and destruction must be endedin the streets of the ghetto and in the lives of people.
Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans.
What white Americans have never fully understoodbut what the Negro can never forgetis that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain, and white society condones it."-From the Kerner Commission Report 1968
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)tolerating it for over 200 years. On and in the lives of black people.
It just doesn't make tv until it is black people doing it
Skittles
(153,193 posts)yes indeed
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Like skittles said, it deserves its own thread. It shows in pretty stark terms how the ghetto-ization of American minority groups is a WHITE problem not a black problem.
I'm embarrassed to say that I'd never heard of the Kerner Commission - they obviously didn't teach it in schools. The fact it wasn't taught to me is another example of the insidious undercurrent of racism inherent in American society.
For those like me, here's more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission.
An overview of and excerpts from the report: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/
Cha
(297,655 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)...they probably get paid extra for manipulating film like that.
Media: they have the ability to make things exceptionally ugly or exceptional pretty, depending upon the politics of the owner and staff he hires.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)The TV news regularly splices video to tell the story it wants, often putting interview answers with new questions or quoting out of context. The aim is to tell the most sensational story, the easiest story, the story the audience "wants" to hear, the story our Corporate Overlords approve of so they will pay for the commercials. The news uses real people as fodder for its stories but doesn't give a darn about the damage their stories do when they tell lies about those people. These days they can get away with it because they know poor people can rarely afford lawyers to champion their rights.
What's really needed is something like a media watchdog that specifically addresses when editing crosses the line into fictionalization. Ordinary people who get swept up into the medias endless gobbling of "personal stories" should have a place to complain to, some place that will investigate and defend their basic rights. This needs to be a nimble organization that can act fast before the various news venues copy each other and the damage spreads like the plague.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)but I don't know. Just based on station affiliate, channel and logo, street name, and background
ETA based on the information from the video, I am pretty sure it is Chicago in 2011
Not the matching details in the two stories.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/30/1-dead-at-least-4-wounded-in-overnight-shootings/
ETAA: yes, it was cbs channel 2 in Chicago-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/wbbm-distorts-child-inter_n_914884.html
gollygee
(22,336 posts)What news station is this? Wow. Horrible
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)Why is it when a white person wants to get a gun it is a heroic and all American exercising of his 2A rights, but when a black 4 year old talks about getting a gun, it us portrayed as a savage continuation of thug violence, even though the kid says he wants the gun to be in law enforcement (because he wants to keep the streets safe from "thugs" ?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Innefective as a journalist, effective as a disinformationist.
Thank you for the heads-up, EvolveOrConvolve. Someone is going to be in a lot of trouble -- and I hope it includes more than one reporter and one producer at Local News whatever.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Good that in today's society it's harder for folks to get away with it. Thanks for helping to get this video out there.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)We accept responsibility for the mistakes that were made, both in the reporting and editing of the story. The video of the child should not have aired. As soon as news management identified the problem, they took immediate steps to ensure that the video would not air in subsequent newscasts. In addition, we have followed up with our employees to make sure that we all have learned from the mistakes that were made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/wbbm-distorts-child-inter_n_914884.html
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)"Mistakes were made" Like someone's finger slipped and accidentally edited a video.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And if they hadn't been busted, it would've just slipped on by.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)They still left the public with the impression that the kid was some kind of future criminal, when he is just the opposite! I hope social media gets all over this and the ones who did this!
No mealy mouthed apology will suffice for smearing a little boy like that. The real story is what they should air over and over again until it sinks in that he's a good kid:
Every day. Or yank their license. Until all media quits dehumanizing.
P. S. Not mad at you, but at them. This has to stop.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)But at least the full video is out there for people to see.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)mrdmk
(2,943 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Shawnelle Richie is the Communications Director quoted in the apology.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)We have fallen as a society and won't be able to get up playing business as usual. Your are being lied to, distracted, and misdirected to build a prison for your mind that it cannot escape because the most important part of the scam is to trick you I to being the guard and warden of your own incarceration.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)and their boss - I'd like some questions answered please
this is deception and fraud and completely unacceptable
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Whoever edited that needs to be fired.