What The Media Isn't Telling You............

[ToraToraTora]

[Paigntonian]

If the media is not telling the truth where do you get your information from? Were you there?

[Paigntonian]

Great is it not. You watch the media telling you the media aren't telling you something.

[Mozz71]

It seems to me to have been a terrible mix up by the police officer, rather than a deliberate killing. I think the original bodycom footage also shows that they did not think that Wright was a danger, or it wouldn't have been the taser she had intended to reach for. Murder? No. Incompetence? Absolutely.

As for the YouTube video? Any idiot can post to YouTube. The amount of flat earth conspiracies is proof of that. They will also be able to find an audience of like minded types to believe their theories. This video is proof of that.

[youngmafbog]

I dont trust the media one bit, any of it.

But that is why we have trials by Jury, not by media although the latter seems to be more and more popular.

[ichkeria]

Er, I don't think the reason we have jury trials is because you don't trust the media :-)

I think that is projecting one's prejudices unduly :-)

Of course the media is not always to be trusted, but I'll continue to get my news from reputable outlets rather than youtube and Facebook thanks all the same :-)

[youngmafbog]

I guess you prefer trials by media then Ich. Cant say I am surprised.

[andy-hughes]

Paigntonian at 00.13 - this is not the media, it's an opinionated idiot with a phone, there's a difference.

[ichkeria]

There's a bit of a logic fail there YMB :-)

Andy's right: maybe he's not an "idiot" exactly, and no doubt a lot of what he says is correct, but he isn't "news"

[Untitled]

Don't trust the media.... trust these bloggers and youtubers instead!

The point is of course that you should not blindly trust anyone and try to read all sources critically... a point which seems ironically lost on those who sneer at media studies qualifications which teach exactly that.

[andy-hughes]

Ich - when he states that someone has never met "... woke up without a racist thought..." - that qualifies him as an idiot.

[ladybirder]

Does a taser feel the same size, weight and form as a gun?
I read her face filled with horror when she realised what she had done but can't remember where I read. If true that tells me she didn't mean to shoot him.

[ToraToraTora]

she also shouted tazerx3 as per training, it was 100% a mistake. Tazer is much lighter than the gun apparently.

[Peter Pedant]

oops my bad ! sozza
is an adequate response? - - righto!

double sozza, yeah foo!

[Peter Pedant]

// she also shouted tazerx3 as per training,//
er nope, non sequitur alert

you are NOT trained to shout tazer tazer tazer before you shoot someone and so she er DIDNT follow training - otherwise carry on !

o god AB on a thursday afternoon - oh Lord, tell me - does it ever get any better?

[ToraToraTora]

Well she shouted Tazer x 3, if it's not the training she made it up, either way she thought she was using a tazer.

[Ellipsis]

Yep, she made an error. That's why it's only a manslaughter charge she's facing, rather than a murder charge.

[emmie]

only manslaughter? she will still end up in prison won;t she.....

[ToraToraTora]

she's been charged to sate the looters, I don't see what crime she has committed. Being a plonker is not a crime.

[Ellipsis]

She's charged with second degree manslaughter