{"id":93,"date":"2013-07-23T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:18:08","slug":"the-real-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The Real Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

So while a few people are getting their tights in a wad about race, I think it’s time to open the real discussion in the Trayvon Martin case:\u00a0 Why did the media repeatedly and continuously misrepresent and manipulate the facts in the George Zimmerman self-defense trial?<\/p>\n

Why did NBC and other news outlets edit the portion of the Zimmerman police dispatch call <\/a>so, instead of the dispatcher asking him what race the suspect was (and Zimmerman giving a how-should-I-know pause then saying, “He looks black.”)<\/p>\n

Why has no one in the media mentioned that gated communities, like the Retreats at Twin Lakes, do not have public thoroughfares.<\/strong> <\/em>You can’t put a gate across a public road.\u00a0 The streets and common walkways are owned and maintained by the community, and yes, that makes them private property.\u00a0 Martin was a guest of a community resident, which allowed him certain, limited access to community amenities, but he was not “gunned down on a public street” as has been presented.<\/p>\n

Why do the media keep presenting a picture of a 12- or 13-year-old Martin and not a more recent picture?\u00a0 Admittedly, he still has a baby face in the more recent photos, but positioning a posed photo of a twelve-year-old next to a mug shot is just manipulative.<\/p>\n

A young man is dead, and another young man (Zimmerman was only 29) will probably never get his life back.\u00a0 I’m not going to stir the pot on guilty or not.\u00a0 I just want to know why the media ginned up a tragic story into a national nightmare of misrepresentation?<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 As a balance, Fox, Hannity, whoever else, please stop muddying the waters with your info that Skittles and Arizona Tea are two of the ingredients in some bizarre cheapass high school drug.\u00a0 Who gives a shit?\u00a0 If he was planning to make the crap (and I’m not saying he was, if the stuff exists), it still has no immediate bearing on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So while a few people are getting their tights in a wad about race, I think it’s time to open the real discussion in the Trayvon Martin case:\u00a0 Why did the media repeatedly and continuously misrepresent and manipulate the facts in the George Zimmerman self-defense trial? Why did NBC and other news outlets edit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}