The NY Times lifts their embargo on coverage of the New Black Panther $10,000 bounty on Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman.
A shift to "fair and balanced"? Well, circumstances made it possible to present the story in a light that is favorable to the Martin family:
Slain Teenager’s Parents Appear on Capitol Hill
The parents of Trayvon Martin called on the public on Tuesday to refrain from violence and from trying to apprehend the man who fatally shot their son last month.
...A lawyer for the family, Benjamin Crump, said relatives “don’t want anyone making an arrest of George Zimmerman,” the man who shot the teenager on Feb. 26, “other than the authorities.” A group called the New Black Panthers has said it will give a $10,000 reward to anyone who captures Mr. Zimmerman, who has been in hiding.
It would have been hard to report on the parents comments without providing a bit more context. Hence, baby steps! However, that call for restraint was not quite enough to end their embargo of Spike Lee's retweeting of the wrong address for Zimmerman's home.
Off topic, "thanks, Obama voters"
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Posted by: Jim,MtnView,Ca,USA | March 28, 2012 at 07:36 AM
By next week the papers will be tiptoeing away from a non story they pimped based on their own prejudices. BTW one has to wonder are NYT subscribers more like Jackson-Sharpton-Shabazz or more like Zimmerman and the homeowners he was trying to protect was trying to protect? (people who earn their living fanning race wars vs. law abiding people who try to live together peacefully)
Posted by: Clarice | March 28, 2012 at 08:11 AM
Clarice-- NYT readers live FAR from people like Trayvon Martin-- and they don't rely on volunteer nabe watchers like George Zimmerman. Times readers' gated communities are REALLY gated or their highrise apartments are really high, NYT readers look down on Trayvon and George and the cops with distain-- the NYT is just feeding their readers' sense of superiority.
Posted by: NK | March 28, 2012 at 08:16 AM
Can someone count up the ACME cigars that have blown up in the Media's and the Democrats faces in the last two years? I have lost count. Occupy and now this fiasco for sure, what am I forgetting about?
Posted by: GMAX | March 28, 2012 at 08:25 AM
I wonder if the NYT was the first to describe Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic"? Helpful chart to determine when one stops being white or Hispanic and becomes w-H.
Posted by: DebinNC | March 28, 2012 at 08:25 AM
Ha! I'm glad I clicked your link, DebinNC. SooperMexi is always Sooper!
Posted by: AliceH | March 28, 2012 at 09:41 AM
By next week the papers will be tiptoeing away from a non story they pimped based on their own prejudices.
That's why Rush calls them the drive-by media. The drive by, ruin a few lives, and cheerfully move on down the road.
Posted by: Extraneus | March 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Jose Baez on Geraldo just said people calling for Zimmermans arrest will be disappointed. His view is after local prosecutors could not find probable cause, and a state attorney is assigned mostly for political reasons, getting a conviction is a virtual impossibility. I tend to agree.
Posted by: scott | March 28, 2012 at 12:15 PM
He should of stop following the child anyway when the operater told him to.
Posted by: robert blake | April 02, 2012 at 12:22 AM