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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPSA: CNN is Conflating two "Mississippi White teens run over and kill a Black man" stories....
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/justice/mississippi-manslaughter-plea/index.html?hpt=ju_c2it came up on this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2823814
The top video is about the case described in the article. The lower video (posted by CNN with no labels) is from a DIFFERENT (IMHO, much more horrible open-and-shut-racist hate crime) murder where the perp got two life sentences.
One of the worst pieces of online journalism from a major news outlet EVER....
I post this because people on that thread (including me ) are talking past each other.
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PSA: CNN is Conflating two "Mississippi White teens run over and kill a Black man" stories.... (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
May 2013
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Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)1. I'm going to keep this kicked for a while.
Hate to see others make my CNN-induced mistake.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)5. Kick
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)8. Kick
:kick:
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)2. It seems like CNN is making at least one major fuck-up every single day!
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)4. And WHAT a story to get wrong!
Like we don't have enough race problems.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)3. Kudos to LuvNewcastle for detecting the problem....
Good to see someone is paying attention to details....
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)6. Well obviously, lesson here is that it's not a good situation if you're a black person on the road
Who's seen by a drunken white kid behind the wheel of a vehicle down south.
You just might end up DEAD.
I guess lynching with ropes passé
Vehicles are the new ropes.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)7. That there WERE two similar instances to conflate....
certainly doesn't look good for Mississippi.