3 Boxes of BS

Local media Fox News on Channel 4 has been running this in some variation or another all morning.

Reporter Layota Sillmon this morning was saying that “alcohol caused” the collision – WRONG.

Sorry but the alcohol did nothing by itself.

It was the driver who decided to purchase the alcohol.
It was the driver who decided to open one or more cans.
It was the driver who decided to break the law by driving impaired.
It was the driver who hit the SUV.

My sympathies go to the family of the deceased; they are having a hard enough time I’m sure without the media trying to excuse the actions of the criminal involved.

This is a great example of media bias. Had it been a firearm instead of a vehicle, the media would be “The shooter fired a shot after drinking” instead of “The police believe that alcohol lead to a deadly shooting”.

Come on Fox 4, you are better than this.

Think I’m going to regularly dredge this issue for blog fodders, I mean, make this a regular feature of my hard hitting journalistic endeavor.

The hard hitting headline reads:

Cops use Taser on woman buying too many iPhones

The reality is:

The confrontation involving the Taser happened when Li went to the store on Monday to pick up two iPhones she ordered online.

“The management of the store asked us to have her removed. The officer approached her, told her she wasn’t welcome in the store, and she refused to leave,” Nashua Police Capt. Bruce Hansen said. 

Police say the store had issued a stay-away order against Li.

That’s right, she was tasered because she was a.) committing criminal trespass and b.) failed to follow the lawful orders of  a police officers.

While the family may claim she didn’t understand, I’m having trouble believing that. She understood enough to order the phones, to recognize others were violating a supposed policy, to videotape it and to argue with management about the issue.

Thanks WCVB in Boston for illustrating why so many people distrust mainstream media today.

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