daveman
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- Jun 25, 2010
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We've been over it. Well, some of us have. You ran away from me saying the media blow up stories for advertising revenue on their websites.My mistake; you said "escalation".Which one approached the other? You tried to float the ridiculous idea that a smirk could be provocation -- but a stranger getting in your face in a public place isn't?
Damn, you're an idiot.
I don't believe I said anything about 'provocation'. Got a quote?
Post 165, where you continue to ignore the adult initiating the incident because you were told it's all the minor's fault.
"Actually there's a strong case to be made that smirking DOES escalate the situation."
He wasn't smirking. He was smiling uncomfortably because there was a crazy adult in his face and the kid had no way of knowing what the crazy adult's intentions were.
But you just make sure you don't blame the adult for initiating the event, because you were told it's the minor's fault, and you're not bright enough to question your programming.
Actually, and feel free to go ahead and check me on this, I don't think I attributed "fault" to anybody. I'm not sure there's an actual event for anyone to be AT "fault" over. Or one that was "initiated". I thought the whole point of endlessly long video accounts was to show it was a complex setting involving multiple parties.
The only reason why it was a news story at all was that the Media was looking to discourage other young people from getting involved in civic affairs like the boys from Kentucky were.
If they were in DC for a Black Power March wearing Obama gear, it wouldn't have been a story, even if they would committed violence.
The media's hope was to punish the kids for wearing patriotic headgear at a demonstration for life. All the children really were doing was waiting for their ride back to their old Kentucky homes.
We've been over this ground before too --- "the media", whatever we mean by that, gets no benefit whatsoever from "discouraging" or "punishing" anybody for anything. The media gets its benefit from the advertising it runs, and it maximizes that advertising by running emotional bait-hook stories like this. ***THAT*** is why it's a story at all. Period.
The media have agendas to push. Just because you agree with the leftist one doesn't mean it's not there.