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If you trace back the source for these facts, the source is a tweet referencing an interview with Mohamed's father. These "facts" get bubbled up the chain until
by aliston 11y ago
If you trace back the source for these facts, the source is a tweet referencing an interview with Mohamed's father. These "facts" get bubbled up the chain until they make it into reputable news services without verification. It may be true that he asked, but I guarantee you that some of the critical "facts" you're reading about this will turn out not to be true.
- DanBC 11y agoThe critical facts are: 1) He took a clock to school 2) He got arrested 3) He got suspended That alone should be sufficient to cause anger. US isn't a crime free zone. Why aren't police spending time dealing with real actual crime?
- aliston 11y agoThese are not the critical facts. The news media wants you to be outraged because it drives eyeballs. That's why it is in their interest to write the story in such a way that you think these are the critical facts.
- rnovak 11y agoYou're debating that he was at an airport? Or that he didn't keep the thing in his backpack? Both of those were reported by the school itself. And the tweet came from a reporter at the CNN. I'll grant that CNN isn't the best, and has had issues, but for the purposes of this convo, I don't know how that is relevant (it's not like anything you or I say is going to matter to anyone anyway).