Do Reporters CARE That a BLM Protester Attacked a Journalist?

August 27th, 2020 6:15 PM

One organization that has received more than its fair share of publicity recently is Black Lives Matter, which seeks to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.” The group got exactly the wrong sort of publicity on Tuesday, when Alpha News, a Minneapolis-based company “that covers stories the local…

MSNBC Guest: Did George Zimmerman Deliberately Gain Weight to Look Wim

July 1st, 2013 12:41 PM
Talk about your dirty lawyer tricks! That’s what MSNBC’s Karen Finney and the network social critic Goldie Taylor seemed to think they were did last Friday. The two were taking the temperature of the George Zimmerman murder trial when Taylor offered up the possibility that the defendant altered his appearance — most notably by putting on pounds — in a ploy to appear less ominous to the jury:

AP Searches on Trayvon Martin: One Vague Quote About Bounty, No Mentio

March 26th, 2012 7:20 PM
A search on Travyvon Martin's name (not in quotes) at the Associated Press's main national site at 7 p.m. returned 37 items. A search on "Trayvon Martin bounty" (also not in quotes) returned one item. Here is the relevant section of the related story by Jennifer Kay and Errin Haines, way down in Paragraphs 13 and 14: