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   From: DEMI_GOD_@SHAW.CA   
      
   ''Cincinnati Cops Kill Black Man.''   
   ChronWatch Founder, Jim Sparkman - thinks it's a "Huge Media Distortion"   
      
      
        Want to read a great article on bias in the news?  All it takes is a   
   storyline of the cops beating a black man to death. The media take it from   
   there.  This article from the Cincinnati Enquirer, written by Petre Bronson,   
   tells the sad sordid story of how the media can twist such a story into an   
   unrecognizable distortion.   
      
            News is like a deviled egg.  The farther it travels, the more it   
   begins to stink.  Just get a whiff of some of these stories about the big   
   news in Cincinnati this week:   
      
             ''Officers beat black man to death,'' said the headline in   
   Australia's national newspaper, The Australian.   
      
            ''The police were called after Nathaniel Jones awoke from his early   
   morning slumber at a fast-food restaurant and starting becoming a   
   nuisance,'' the story began.   
      
            Phew.  There was no evidence that Jones was beaten to death.   
   Reports from the coroner showed he was not seriously injured by the cops,   
   who jabbed him in the legs to get him to put his hands behind his back.  The   
   cause of death is more likely to be a combination of an enlarged heart and   
   obesity mixed with PCP and cocaine.  But story after story around the world   
   and the nation jumped to the reckless conclusion that it was a fatal beating   
   by the cops.   
      
            And what about that ''slumber'' line?  The frantic 911 call said he   
   was passed out.  ''Slumber'' makes it sound as if he were taking a nap   
   before he nearly ''nuisanced'' a cop to death.   
      
             Here's a Google headline that smells like green baloney: ''Black   
   policeman dies after beating'' - The Independent in South Africa.  The story   
   actually had a few facts right, but the Google headline was laughable.   
      
             Great Britain's Independent reported: ''Police video shows U.S.   
   officers fatally beating black man'' - and went downhill from there.  ''An   
   investigation has been launched in Cincinnati after a police video revealed   
   officers beating a black man with steel clubs,'' said the story by (no   
   kidding) Andrew Buncombe.   
      
            ''Steel clubs'' sounds so much more lurid than a P-24 collapsible   
   baton made of aircraft aluminum filled with Styrofoam.   
      
             The New York Daily News reported, ''Man Dies in Cincy after cop   
   beating.''  The story reeks of food-poisoning exaggeration:  ''Cincinnati   
   was boiling with racial tension last night sparked by the death of a   
   350-pound black man who was beaten by nightstick-wielding cops as he cried   
   'mama.' ''   
      
            Anyone who swallows that one needs a stomach pump. ''Boiling with   
   racial tension''?  Hardly.  On Monday, the ''last night''  referred to in   
   the story, only four protesters showed up at City Hall.  Four.   
      
            Jones didn't beg for his mama, but he did call the cops   
   ''nappy-headed, white-boy redneck.''  He said something like, ''My mama   
   taught me how to (garbled)'' as he attacked the cops.   
      
            Such ridiculous reporting is too warped to be excused by mere   
   ignorance and mistakes.  It looks deliberately distorted to fit a biased   
   agenda: Those racist cops in Cincinnati are killing black men.   
      
            Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.   
      
            This story never would have made it past Dayton if the suspect had   
   been white.  It never would have traveled past Columbus if the cops had not   
   turned on their own patrol-car camera to record the entire thing.   
      
            Time after time on TV, the cable news reporters rerun the tape,   
   drooling over the ''good video.''   
      
            But they nearly always leave out the most critical part--when Jones   
   ignores the cops' commands to stay back, lunges at Officer James Pike, slugs   
   him and tries to grab him in a chokehold.   
      
            Unless Michael Jackson dangles another toddler over a balcony soon,   
   the Cincinnati Police reruns could break the record set by O.J.'s white   
   Bronco.   
      
            It's rotten-egg reporting.  Salmonella sensationalism full of   
   bacteria bias. It's sickening.   
      
      
   --   
   As Benjamin Franklin advised, "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.   
   Empty the coins of your purse into your mind, and your mind will fill your   
   purse with gold"   
      
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