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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"Snookered"
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ReplyDeleteThe 24-hour news cycle will assure that this story is OVER reported. I've been paying close attention for about 12 hours, and now the story is starting to repeat...I guess for the folks who are just now figuring out that this is a story.
Secondly, former Reagan administration advisor and CNN commentator, David Gergen described internet news as the "bottom of the food chain," and repeated Mark Twain's famous line that a lie can travel around the world in the time it takes for the truth to get its pants on. So, in this media environment, a blogger or internet source will say something, anything -- truth is immaterial. Then a network will pick it up and run with it. Once one network picks it up, the others are forced to. So in this case, the blogger behind biggovernment.com ran an edited clip that made Shirley Sherrod seem like she held racist views. The comment, taken out of the context of her entire speech (which revealed quite the opposite), was the basis of the story. Fox picked up the erroneous story and ran with it, as if it were an expose. Shirley Sherrod's boss then asked for her resignation, and she gave it to him, and that was interpreted as an admission of guilt.
Good gravy, People. What the cat hair is going on here?
How concurrent, Mrs. Fletcher! As I was going to check the blog, I spotted this "Shirley Sherrod" controversy on the Road Runner home page, and thought, 'Why not take a look?' I read the article, and I found it to be quite interesting.
ReplyDelete---Here's a link to what I read:
http://rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9008/16569717/White_House_apologizes_to_ousted_USDA_worker
I would strongly suggest checking it out. It's hard to fit the story in a nut-shell, but basically the gist of the story(from what I got out of it) is this--- An African-American Agriculture Department employee named Shirley Sherrod was accused of being bias and racist after a blogger posted a video that was edited to make her look racist(correct me if I'm wrong here, please). In destined yet unfortunate fate, the department officials asked her to step down from her duty. Today (Wednesday) the White House apparently apologized to her. She, in turn, accepted the apology. This is a very unfortunate incident. How do you guys feel about the situation? Why? Was it justified to make Sherrod resign given the situation? I am curious to hear what fellow bloggers have to say.
This case of shirley sherrod definetly proves that people should investigate before making big decisions. It was something the bosses and authorties should've looked into and didnt. It was wrong to accuse without investigation. At least in the end she got offered a new job and got a 7 minute chat with Obama.
ReplyDeleteIf I were Shirley I would be a little nervous to get my job back, why go back to a job where the people there barley have respect for you? Sherrod isn't the only one who's been wrongly accused of racial misconduct either; this subject isn't new. I read an article the other day on Yahoo and it listed numerous stories of fabricated accusations, lies and fables. which they all, in common, included race. One story of a white woman who claimed a black man stole her car while her 3 yr. old child was remained in it. Another story of a young black girl who claimed a group of white men wrapped her in a trash bag, covered her in feces and wrote racial slurs on her body. Why people make theses things up is beyond me. It's not only selfish, it's shameful. Making the suspects/victims of your story an opposite race of you is just as confusing.
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