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One of the Outside Groups Inciting Violence in Ferguson: The Revolutionary Communist Party

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Targetpractice8/19/2014 11:55:12 am PDT

re: #228 lawhawk

Law enforcement uses media outlets to seed their version of events. All papers have beat writers with contacts in law enforcement, and will run with those stories.

The key graf for the Byers tweets:

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There’s nothing to those “accounts” corroborating the Wilson version of events because they’re not witnesses to the event. They’re simply looking at whatever Wilson provided to investigators, and they’re simply agreeing with it.

This is journalistic malpractice, and Tapper’s hardly alone in this. Other outlets are giving the “Josie” version equal footing with known eyewitnesses who have a different (but consistent with each other witnesses, video, and physical evidence such as we are able to glean from video/autopsies, etc.).

The excuse I’ve heard for the eyewitnesses agreeing on key points, at least according to wingnuts I’ve talked to, is that they’re repeating “rumors” and none actually were there. And, of course, Johnson can’t be believed as he’s an “accomplice” who would lie about anything to save his own ass.