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President-elect Donald Trump is clearly antagonistic toward the mainstream media. That attitude is unlikely to change after Inauguration Day. His disdain for journalists and reluctance to release details about his finances and business ventures may force journalists to rely increasingly on anonymous sources, a strategy that reputable news organizations have long frowned upon.
So in the age of Trump, how should a reader approach coverage that relies primarily on anonymous sources?
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:48AM
As usual, somebody is always dumb enough to bring the talking points. Watch this folks, and remember this is how the Left always works, there just isn't always somebody around to fisk every TV journalist.
So lets Google each of these names and see what we can find out, shall we?
Sure, how about John Crawford III
First page of results gets me a local news account [daytondailynews.com] related to this one. So the 911 caller had given a very scary report so the responding officer was already spun up, but did give an order to drop the weapon although that is a disputed fact. So you are already probably wrong. Watched the video, inconclusive since it doesn't include audio. What it does show is all the talk about open carry is bunk, the guy was clearly 'brandishing' it, not just carrying it to the counter, it wasn't in a shopping cart (he doesn't have one) and it isn't in retail packaging. Bottom line is the grand jury didn't indict and Obama's politicized DoJ hasn't either. The Wikipedia page is fairly obvious that it was written by a BLM supporter.
Amadou Diallo
One counterfactual narrative [city-journal.org]
. This one sounds like a clusterfsck. But like most of these, when the cops say stop and you stop, things usually turn out good. Try to get away and it only takes a small accident to turn into a fiasco. Cop tripped and went down, everybody else thought he was shot and it was unload the magazine time. And again the Wikipedia entry is pure propaganda.
Don Myrick
No easy links on Google other than Wikipedia, and already seen they are propaganda.
Philip Pannell
You say shot in the back with hands up, This [northjersey.com]disagrees as did the jury. Everybody agrees the kid a) had a serious rap sheet, b) had a gun, c) ran from the police officer who KNEW HE HAD A GUN because the idiot ran when the officer was frisking him and found it.