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Azrael · Mar 25, 2012

What?

Drip · Mar 25, 2012

Think about it.

Azrael · Mar 25, 2012

No, thanks.

If there was demonstrable collusion between the PD and Zimmerman to cover this up, it's a much different problem than simple racism.

Devin · Mar 25, 2012

Local affiliate ABC News 7 is reporting that Trayvon Martin dialed 911 shortly before he was fatally shot.

The reporter makes the admission about the 911 call at the 2:41 mark in the video, near the very end of story. It is unclear why this information has not been released earlier, or who provided the reporter with this information since he does not provide a source during the segment.

http://yourblackworld.net/2012/03/black-news/abc-news-reports-trayvon-martin-dialed-911-prior-to-being-shot-video/

ABC 7-Chicago video:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8593399&syndicate=syndicate%A7ion

YankeeFan · Mar 25, 2012

The journey this case took to get national attention:

Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was fatally shot on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. The next day his death was a top story on the Fox-affiliated television station in Orlando, the closest big city to Sanford. Within a week it was being covered by newspapers around the state.

But it took several weeks before the rest of the country found out.

It was not until mid-March, after word spread on Facebook and Twitter, that the shooting of Trayvon by George Zimmerman, 26, was widely reported by the national news media, highlighting the complex ways that news does and does not travel in the Internet age.

That Trayvon’s name is known at all is a testament to his family, which hired a tenacious lawyer to pursue legal action and to persuade sympathetic members of the news media to cover the case. Just as important, family members were willing to answer the same painful questions over and over at news conferences and in TV interviews.

Notably, many of the national media figures who initially devoted time to the shooting are black, which some journalists and advocacy groups say attests to the need for diversity in newsrooms. The racial and ethnic makeup of newsrooms, where minorities tend to be underrepresented relative to the general population, has long been a source of tension for the news industry.

“On this story, there is a certain degree of understanding that comes from minorities, and particularly African-Americans, just because we’ve lived it,” said Don Lemon, a CNN weekend anchor who has covered the case extensively for the last two weekends. He recalled that in a planning meeting for his program, one of his producers, a black mother of two teenage boys, was “almost in tears” as she said, “We’ve got to do something on this story.”

As the case was catapulted onto the national agenda and calls for Mr. Zimmerman’s arrest increased, prominent black journalists and commentators wrote about it in highly personal terms. “This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them ‘suspicious,’ ” Charles M. Blow of The New York Times wrote on March 17.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/business/media/for-martins-case-a-long-route-to-national-attention.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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sportbook · Mar 25, 2012

old_tony said:

I wish we would all be as outraged when Latinos kill Latinos, blacks kill blacks and whites kill whites as we are when a person of one color kills another of a different color. Only being outraged when a Latino or white kills a black but never being outraged otherwise makes it all seem political and selective.
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Couldn't have said it better.

Double Down · Mar 25, 2012

Really powerful piece by David Simon in the Herald.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/24/v-fullstory/2711539/welcome-to-florida-beware-of-gunmen.html

indiansnetwork · Mar 25, 2012

This is a bad situation but should not be a headline maker. D Wade and his gang of merry brick laying men made it at story because D Wade's gf was upset about it. Go care about something that really makes a difference chicky.

Baron Scicluna · Mar 25, 2012

YankeeFan said:

The journey this case took to get national attention:

Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was fatally shot on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. The next day his death was a top story on the Fox-affiliated television station in Orlando, the closest big city to Sanford. Within a week it was being covered by newspapers around the state.

But it took several weeks before the rest of the country found out.

It was not until mid-March, after word spread on Facebook and Twitter, that the shooting of Trayvon by George Zimmerman, 26, was widely reported by the national news media, highlighting the complex ways that news does and does not travel in the Internet age.

That Trayvons name is known at all is a testament to his family, which hired a tenacious lawyer to pursue legal action and to persuade sympathetic members of the news media to cover the case. Just as important, family members were willing to answer the same painful questions over and over at news conferences and in TV interviews.

Notably, many of the national media figures who initially devoted time to the shooting are black, which some journalists and advocacy groups say attests to the need for diversity in newsrooms. The racial and ethnic makeup of newsrooms, where minorities tend to be underrepresented relative to the general population, has long been a source of tension for the news industry.

On this story, there is a certain degree of understanding that comes from minorities, and particularly African-Americans, just because weve lived it, said Don Lemon, a CNN weekend anchor who has covered the case extensively for the last two weekends. He recalled that in a planning meeting for his program, one of his producers, a black mother of two teenage boys, was almost in tears as she said, Weve got to do something on this story.

As the case was catapulted onto the national agenda and calls for Mr. Zimmermans arrest increased, prominent black journalists and commentators wrote about it in highly personal terms. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them suspicious, Charles M. Blow of The New York Times wrote on March 17.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/business/media/for-martins-case-a-long-route-to-national-attention.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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Very true.

Plus, as time has gone on from the killing, the lack of an arrest and the police department's behavoir has made this an even bigger story.

Boom_70 · Mar 25, 2012

YankeeFan said:

The journey this case took to get national attention:

Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was fatally shot on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. The next day his death was a top story on the Fox-affiliated television station in Orlando, the closest big city to Sanford. Within a week it was being covered by newspapers around the state.

But it took several weeks before the rest of the country found out.

It was not until mid-March, after word spread on Facebook and Twitter, that the shooting of Trayvon by George Zimmerman, 26, was widely reported by the national news media, highlighting the complex ways that news does and does not travel in the Internet age.

That Trayvon’s name is known at all is a testament to his family, which hired a tenacious lawyer to pursue legal action and to persuade sympathetic members of the news media to cover the case. Just as important, family members were willing to answer the same painful questions over and over at news conferences and in TV interviews.

Notably, many of the national media figures who initially devoted time to the shooting are black, which some journalists and advocacy groups say attests to the need for diversity in newsrooms. The racial and ethnic makeup of newsrooms, where minorities tend to be underrepresented relative to the general population, has long been a source of tension for the news industry.

“On this story, there is a certain degree of understanding that comes from minorities, and particularly African-Americans, just because we’ve lived it,” said Don Lemon, a CNN weekend anchor who has covered the case extensively for the last two weekends. He recalled that in a planning meeting for his program, one of his producers, a black mother of two teenage boys, was “almost in tears” as she said, “We’ve got to do something on this story.”

As the case was catapulted onto the national agenda and calls for Mr. Zimmerman’s arrest increased, prominent black journalists and commentators wrote about it in highly personal terms. “This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them ‘suspicious,’ ” Charles M. Blow of The New York Times wrote on March 17.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/business/media/for-martins-case-a-long-route-to-national-attention.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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Too bad that it took so long. Interesting that story originated at a FOX affiliate.

In trying to better understand the story after reading Charles Blow column, I googled it and only article that came up day after was on FOX site. The story did not make The Sential until 2 days later.

imjustagirl · Mar 25, 2012

indiansnetwork said:

This is a bad situation but should not be a headline maker. D Wade and his gang of merry brick laying men made it at story because D Wade's gf was upset about it. Go care about something that really makes a difference chicky.
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Wow.

Inky_Wretch · Mar 25, 2012

imjustagirl said:

indiansnetwork said:

This is a bad situation but should not be a headline maker. D Wade and his gang of merry brick laying men made it at story because D Wade's gf was upset about it. Go care about something that really makes a difference chicky.
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Wow.
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It's almost a perfect melange of idiocy and sexism.

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