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| Quasimodo | Mar 3 2014, 10:54 PM Post #1 |
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What would surprise you in this case? Maybe... a transvestite drag queen appearing as a witness for the prosecution; the step-son of a West African police minister being covered-up for by the press and the DPD; a West African airline officer and possible importer, also being given cover by the authorities; death threats being issued by a racially-oriented hate group, whose uniformed members threatened the defendants even inside a courtroom, with complete impunity and absolutely no response at all from the ever-vigilant FBI; a university president hoping the double-secret probation he imposes will make the lacrosse team go away; The most technologically advanced media in the world, arriving with satellite trucks parked hub to hub and camping out in Durham, and yet unable to discover: 1 ) any of Mangum's co-workers or neighbors; 2 ) anything about her actual background; 3 ) anything about Cousin Jacki; 4 ) unable to discover that the whole DPD considered the case was a fraud; 5 ) unable to press Nifong about a single issue (DNA results, photo ID session, inflammatory statements, etc.); IOW, a media that was spoon-fed from the beginning and never asked a hard question; three guys who have been acclaimed guilty by the entire mass media, Newsweek, the NAACP; and cold-shouldered by the politicians, Innocence Projects, law professors, and everyone else except perhaps the embassy of Namibia (not included only because they did not respond to the poll), actually being declared INNOCENT! This kind of stuff would never happen in real life, nor even in a movie; it's too ridiculous. Maybe in a spoof, which would be panned by the critics as too over-the-top. So any of the above would really, really be a surprise to me. . . |
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| MikeZPU | Mar 4 2014, 12:11 AM Post #2 |
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The reason the MSM press didn't ask Nifong a single hard question is because he was just trying to do the right thing. |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2014, 07:39 AM Post #3 |
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Didn't any of the local media have contacts at the police department and the DA's office? And at Duke? And was there NOBODY who was telling them off the record that the case was a fraud? And if the media heard from them, they still weren't expressing any skepticism about the case? Odd, that... |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2014, 07:58 AM Post #4 |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2014, 08:01 AM Post #5 |
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| chatham | Mar 4 2014, 08:33 AM Post #6 |
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Just guessing here after the facts. The local media probably had some input into that hiding real info because they wanted to sell papers. Once the national media showed its face in durham, they most likely were told only a partial truth. Black girls were striping for white athletes. The initial media event in the local paper was just a little paragraph suggesting some type of possible sexual assault by athletes from Duke. Somehow the rumors started and got totally out of control. This was well after the initial investigation found nothing and just after gottlieb claimed that a real rape took place. I was a gottlieb connection and a test the waters tye of article. A lie and a small false story. That is when Duke and Durham decided that it would be better to feed the frenzy with what they may have considered "a positive spin" about white guys taking advantage of black girls at a party that shoud never have happened. In other words, Steel's position that things can all be sorted out later on when everything quiets down. One can see now that even the crimestoppers posters and community emails was meant to hurt and both Duke and DPD and Mayor Bell knew about it. These were false accusations that were suppose to stop all student planned events around the Duke campus. When did the media find out that… Shelton did not believe magnum it was durham access that brought up the rape issue…illegally the rape kit was never completed becasue mangum cancelled it there was no certified SANE present at anytime the cops in the ED claimed nothing happened mangum herself told a bunch of different stories dean sue sent a memo saying it was nothing and may only result in a minor charge all the money that mangum had was stolen etc, etc etc In other words, everthing that happened that night was down played to the news media. And that is Dukes fault. Edited by chatham, Mar 4 2014, 08:38 AM.
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