It's sad that a lawyer can be so illogical, but I've seen a freshly-minted one doing something really dumbshit for similar reasons - taking part in a protest in downtown Toronto a few years ago over an alleged police killing of a black woman who fell from the balcony of a high-rise. No one witnessed it nor were there any cameras present …
It's sad that a lawyer can be so illogical, but I've seen a freshly-minted one doing something really dumbshit for similar reasons - taking part in a protest in downtown Toronto a few years ago over an alleged police killing of a black woman who fell from the balcony of a high-rise. No one witnessed it nor were there any cameras present and the idea that she was 'pushed by the cops' came about via an early family accusation, who then shortly after walked back on that and said no, they couldn't say they saw their loved one pushed. But Twitter Toronto was *aflame* with the murder story.
As the truth emerged it became clear she wasn't murdered; she was alone when she fell. She'd had a lot of acknowledged mental health problems and she'd barricaded herself on the balcony by blocking it with a heavy air conditioning unit. So she either fell or she jumped and we will probably never know which.
What pissed me off is the protest occurred at the start of the pandemic in spring 2020. Baby Lawyer had just graduated; his lawyer mother is a friend of mine. All these fucking idiots staged a protest when Toronto had gone into lockdown and social distancing and masking mode. The protesters, he reported, were masked and did their best to stay six feet away like responsible progressives; but when they got to Spadina Circle it became impossible. The thing is, *the protest was premature* at a time when we all needed to stay the fuck away from each other, and I told him that, because it didn't take long for the truth to come out, that the police were there but they couldn't get to her any more than the family could. The police were mostly guilty of not knowing how to handle a mental illness issue properly, which is as well-established here with other cases as it is in many other parts of North America.
This wasn't a George Floyd knee-on-the-neck protest; while those made me cringe for *pandemic* reasons as I saw them on TV I recognized that they were extremely justified and necessary; cops (too often) and pandemics don't care about lives. This was "dumbass protest because I read on Twitter she was murdered by cops so it must be true". Even if they hadn't scrunched up at Spadina Circle I'd have been pissed; *it wasn't necessary* at a time when we needed to not be congregating publicly.
I'm just finishing up "The Book of Matthew" about the Matthew Shepard 'gay hate crime' crucifixion-on-the-fence thing and it's just appalling how much it was NOT a hate crime (or a crucifixion) but a mass collusive coverup of a drug deal gone bad at the crux, and a dealer (Matthew) who 'knew too much' about something going in in the Wyoming meth trade and who *was afraid for his life* days before the attack because of the people he'd pissed off in the drug ring. The 'gay panic attack' was a story the two perps and their girlfriends cooked up to mask the whole drug involvement and dealing experience (the killer was a meth dealer too, like Shepard) and the media just ran with it without doing a lot of investigation. Plus there was a coverup with the police as some of them were, not surprisingly, involved in the meth world themselves. Oh and one other fun fact: Shepard and the killer had had sex several times; the dealer was bisexual and Shepard wasn't the only man he'd ever had sex with. No one had ever known him to be homophobic.
So when people damn the 'lamestream media', well, there are plenty of ways you can point to the MSM and observe how they no longer do their jobs with the high journalistic standards I remember from when I was a journalism student in the Jurassic Age (the '80s) and we were taught standards that are clearly no longer being adhered to today.
The left doesn't help either, latching onto an early narrative with the tenacity of a Jack Russell terrier regardless of any facts or points that come out later. Guilty of racism, homophobia, misogyny, etc. until proven innocent. And there is no evidence they'll accept that proves innocence.
"So when people damn the 'lamestream media', well, there are plenty of ways you can point to the MSM and observe how they no longer do their jobs with the high journalistic standards"
Oh God this is so true. I understand, at least in part, why distrust in the media is so high right now.. They're absolutely complicit in this trend of assuming the narrative of a story before the facts are known. I'd just have hoped that a lawyer might be capable of a higher standard.😅
Still, the distrust is too widespread. I always tell people, "Run your sources through Media Bias Fact Checker, or check out the centre of their spectrum to see who's least biased. You'll find a high commitment to factualism goes hand in hand with it."
It's sad that a lawyer can be so illogical, but I've seen a freshly-minted one doing something really dumbshit for similar reasons - taking part in a protest in downtown Toronto a few years ago over an alleged police killing of a black woman who fell from the balcony of a high-rise. No one witnessed it nor were there any cameras present and the idea that she was 'pushed by the cops' came about via an early family accusation, who then shortly after walked back on that and said no, they couldn't say they saw their loved one pushed. But Twitter Toronto was *aflame* with the murder story.
As the truth emerged it became clear she wasn't murdered; she was alone when she fell. She'd had a lot of acknowledged mental health problems and she'd barricaded herself on the balcony by blocking it with a heavy air conditioning unit. So she either fell or she jumped and we will probably never know which.
What pissed me off is the protest occurred at the start of the pandemic in spring 2020. Baby Lawyer had just graduated; his lawyer mother is a friend of mine. All these fucking idiots staged a protest when Toronto had gone into lockdown and social distancing and masking mode. The protesters, he reported, were masked and did their best to stay six feet away like responsible progressives; but when they got to Spadina Circle it became impossible. The thing is, *the protest was premature* at a time when we all needed to stay the fuck away from each other, and I told him that, because it didn't take long for the truth to come out, that the police were there but they couldn't get to her any more than the family could. The police were mostly guilty of not knowing how to handle a mental illness issue properly, which is as well-established here with other cases as it is in many other parts of North America.
This wasn't a George Floyd knee-on-the-neck protest; while those made me cringe for *pandemic* reasons as I saw them on TV I recognized that they were extremely justified and necessary; cops (too often) and pandemics don't care about lives. This was "dumbass protest because I read on Twitter she was murdered by cops so it must be true". Even if they hadn't scrunched up at Spadina Circle I'd have been pissed; *it wasn't necessary* at a time when we needed to not be congregating publicly.
I'm just finishing up "The Book of Matthew" about the Matthew Shepard 'gay hate crime' crucifixion-on-the-fence thing and it's just appalling how much it was NOT a hate crime (or a crucifixion) but a mass collusive coverup of a drug deal gone bad at the crux, and a dealer (Matthew) who 'knew too much' about something going in in the Wyoming meth trade and who *was afraid for his life* days before the attack because of the people he'd pissed off in the drug ring. The 'gay panic attack' was a story the two perps and their girlfriends cooked up to mask the whole drug involvement and dealing experience (the killer was a meth dealer too, like Shepard) and the media just ran with it without doing a lot of investigation. Plus there was a coverup with the police as some of them were, not surprisingly, involved in the meth world themselves. Oh and one other fun fact: Shepard and the killer had had sex several times; the dealer was bisexual and Shepard wasn't the only man he'd ever had sex with. No one had ever known him to be homophobic.
So when people damn the 'lamestream media', well, there are plenty of ways you can point to the MSM and observe how they no longer do their jobs with the high journalistic standards I remember from when I was a journalism student in the Jurassic Age (the '80s) and we were taught standards that are clearly no longer being adhered to today.
The left doesn't help either, latching onto an early narrative with the tenacity of a Jack Russell terrier regardless of any facts or points that come out later. Guilty of racism, homophobia, misogyny, etc. until proven innocent. And there is no evidence they'll accept that proves innocence.
"So when people damn the 'lamestream media', well, there are plenty of ways you can point to the MSM and observe how they no longer do their jobs with the high journalistic standards"
Oh God this is so true. I understand, at least in part, why distrust in the media is so high right now.. They're absolutely complicit in this trend of assuming the narrative of a story before the facts are known. I'd just have hoped that a lawyer might be capable of a higher standard.😅
Still, the distrust is too widespread. I always tell people, "Run your sources through Media Bias Fact Checker, or check out the centre of their spectrum to see who's least biased. You'll find a high commitment to factualism goes hand in hand with it."
mediabiasfactcheck.com