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| Ferguson, MO burning after grand jury came back without an indictment. |
Monday night, as I sat and listened to St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch carefully read off of a very structured and detailed statement regarding the non indictment of Darren Wilson, I couldn't help but notice the deliberate way in which he presented facts and the reasoning behind the grand jury decision. Unfortunately, for the sake of ratings, most of the media cut away from this very thought out crafted explanation of the multiple investigation's that took place. He described how the Department of Justice and the state of Missouri each had their own independent investigations that included separate autopsies, physical evidence, and witness accounts.
But for the mainstream media, facts are boring. Facts help to control dissent and reduce ignorance. Facts lower ratings! There is no drama in fact. Over the last few months, the media has dealt in and spewed conjecture and rumor as fact. In an effort to create derision and conflict amongst groups of people, they speculate and without regard to truth or facts purport to be covering news. And they, they being the mainstream media, do this in the name of ratings. It's strictly a numbers game to the major news networks. Imagine a world were peace and harmony were in ample supply. The major news networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS along with MSNBC, Fox News, CNN would wilt on the vine.
Everyone knows that eye witness accounts are always held up to high scrutiny because too often people see what they want to see or create stories to fit their agenda. McColloch addressed this in his press conference when he stated how the state investigation along with the Federal investigation both shared witness information to weed out unreliable witness testimony. Some witness accounts either changed as contradictory information came to light, changed or varied per interview sessions or didn't change and were in conflict of the physical evidence uncovered during the investigation. As the unreliable accounts got weeded out, reliable consistent accounts that matched the physical evidence began to emerge. Most of the news media cut away to the mob and the violence on the street, rather than report the important information he was giving at the press conference. Once again, facts took a back seat to passions and emotion. And this was just the latest example of journalistic malpractice on Monday night.
The videos above are just two examples of the media using agenda and emotion rather than fact.
The talking head in the bottom clip shows no interests in the facts of the incident but is only interested in advocating for more government control and a larger government. Granted, at this point in the evening the grand jury evidence had not been released I don't believe. But this is just an example of the mainstream media jumping to emotional conclusions before the truth is known.
You've heard it all over the news the last few years. Obama during his national address on Monday night even said it. We've made great progress in race relations in this country. And there is no disputing that. Our country bears a long scar that runs deep on the face of our nations' history. It's not something we should attempt to hide or to cover up. It's a scar that will never go away and it'll be a constant reminder of the pain and suffering that almost destroyed this great country. This national scar can be tender and bumping into it can be painful at times. But lets not allow the national media and the race hustlers to continue creating the division they create so well in this country. The next time the national media trots out a story that seems very inflammatory lets face the situation with the facts and not emotion. Reason and not wrath. Lets become the American people and not a hyphenated people.
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