No Indictment of Officer in Missouri Death

By MONICA DAVEY, JULIE BOSMAN and JOHN ELIGON

NOV. 24, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-shooting-michael-brown-grand-jury.html?comments#permid=13425578

Our brainless 24 hour news media, in their instant reporting of false statement from "witnesses", and false "facts", simply in order to fill their 24hr air time and obtain "scoops" on new information, are complicit in the insanity that is happening now in Ferguson, with burning of police cars and looting shops of innocent people, just trying to make a living.

This false and irresponsible reporting by the 24 hour cable news (first and foremost CNN) led from the very beginning to false conclusions being drawn from the premature, false and erroneous "witness" statements. And all the subsequent speculation by the idiotic "experts" which were paraded before us for the past three months only served to increase the misinformation and heighten the tension.

CNN, with their parade of talking heads, all, for the most part, spouting nonsense "opinions", from the very beginning introduced the notion of some vast conspiracy to kill young blacks by an out-of-control police force.

It is certainly true that many police departments have serious problems with unequal enforcement and "targeting" of minorities. But for "reputable journalists" (if that term can be applied to the irresponsible nitwits on 24 hour news) to heighten these existing tensions in completely irresponsible ways, by selecting "witnesses" more for their shock values rather than any verifiable factual information they can provide, borders on willfully inciting rioting.

Have these people ever heard of checking and verifying sources?

My response to a comment on my comment....

If you read my comment, you will see that I am not blaming the media for a non-indictment, I am blaming the media for encouraging and spreading mis-information, which then encourages the kind of violent protests we saw in Ferguson last night.

And my singling out of CNN was premature. NBC, for example, is just as uninformed and polemical: In an interview of the Brown's lawyer on "Today" this morning, Savanna Guthrie framed a question as to the reason for the non-indictment as "was the evidence too weak, or did the prosecutor just not trying hard enough". The option that the evidence was STRONG in vavor of officer Wilson never seemed to have entered her mind.

The African American community have ample and valid reasons to be suspicious of police and "the system" - Treyvon Martin was/is an outrage, and many more examples abound. However, in this case, by misplaced, blind support for a young thug, the African American community, with the help of witless media, unleashed a witch hunt against a police officer.