So one of the things that has been going around on Twitter and other social media (in certain circles) is that by only pushing "highlights" of a jury trial, that certain media outlets are providing a false narrative that could get people "expecting" a guilty verdict, when in fact there may not be a "guilty verdict".
If the jury fails to end up convicting Chauvin of murder, then the argument goes that any fallout will fall on the shoulders of those in the media who are attempting to give the impression (true or false) that the jury must have ignored the facts and refused to convict a known killer for some other reason.
Now I am quite certain that even if many people were expecting a not guilty verdict on the murder charges, that there would still be rioting if that is the final result. In fact, there may still be rioting from BLM and Antifa even if he is convicted. There may not be anyway to stop it.
But I understand the concept. Obviously your television networks and news networks are not going to go as in depth as someone with legal expertise is going to get into it. That is just the nature of the beast. But when your highlights are basically little more than providing the broader principle of a witness (eg: use of force experts states Chauvin did not follow procedure) then are they really providing any real insight at all?
I guess we will have a better understanding later in the case when the defense take center stage. Perhaps the media will do no more with those witnesses then the same two minute recap of the very reason the defense called them, without any suggestion as to the effectiveness.
But under that scenario, we are simply recapping the witness list and treating it as if the actual testimony itself is irrelevant. Why bother at all? It would be one thing if we didn't have to worry about any sort of fallout based on the result of the trial, but we do. I think that provides that our media outlets should be a little more responsible for providing more than just a witness list as their analysis.
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Ben Shapiro
https://mobile.twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1379793686523961351
If you watch the actual Chauvin trial and then watch the media coverage of the Chauvin trial, the gap is stunning. The media are paving the way for riots by ignoring the prosecution's difficulties -- and his acquittal is not a remote possibility based on those difficulties.
WaPo headline: "Trial to resume after training officer says an unauthorized neck restraint was used on George Floyd."
This ignores the actual takeaway from the use-of-force expert's testimony.
The use-of-force officer admitted that Chauvin's procedure (use of body weight and pressure) was a LESSER use of force than adopted in the past, that it wasn't a chokehold...
..that use of force standards change based on drug use or physical stature of a suspect, that he had personally restrained suspects until EMS arrived, that some suspects quickly regain consciousness and thus sometimes suppression is necessary despite appearances.
...that use of force standards change based on drug use or physical stature of a suspect, that he had personally restrained suspects until EMS arrived, that some suspects quickly regain consciousness and thus sometimes suppression is necessary despite appearances.
accidentally left off this final tweet
This was all a thread...
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Researchers at the University of Oxford compared data on almost 240,000 patients with COVID-19 to a similar number of patients who had other respiratory infections, like the flu.
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