tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post520898232374101907..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: The Raleigh N&O without its mask (Post 2)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-42106874373238079782008-09-18T11:38:00.000-04:002008-09-18T11:38:00.000-04:008:10 - Absolutely excellent questions, analysis an...8:10 - Absolutely excellent questions, analysis and comments. Steve in New MexicoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-83016958321621001472008-09-17T23:38:00.000-04:002008-09-17T23:38:00.000-04:00These questions should be answered by the publishe...These questions should be answered by the publisher, Mr. Quarles, and the McClatchy leader, Mr. Pruitt. Polite letters and questions should be sent to members of the McClatchy family who still have a major say in how the company is run. It's a waste of time to communicate with Sill, Drescher and Williams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-58095764332637683772008-09-17T20:10:00.000-04:002008-09-17T20:10:00.000-04:00From the beginning this was an allegation with no ...From the beginning this was an allegation with no confirming evidence. A stripper made an allegation of gang rape. Every other person in the house at the time, including the other stripper, said she was lying. EVERY ONE. The Team captains gave full cooperation and full access to their home from the very first, before they even sought legal representation.<BR/><BR/>In those early days, the N&O secured the only interview with the Accuser. That “interview” set in place a series of lies and misrepresentations that the N&O, with a minimum of journalistic effort could have fact-checked easily. The question remains “WHY did they not put out that minimal amount of effort?” Why did they put out false and misleading information to their readers without the proper journalistic checks? Why did they rush to create a false and dangerous myth and install their phony Goddess dead center?<BR/><BR/>A minimum of journalistic effort would have shown that Mangum was not a shy young mother “new to dancing”: she was a seasoned prostitute, well known to the Durham police. The first officer on the scene asked where her children were! She had a criminal record. She had neighbors willing to talk about her troubled life… as they did to the young reporter from NCCU (who also, in racial solidarity, reported her qualms but not the negative comments) Why did the N&O not pursue BOTH sides of the story? Why send multiple reporters out to cover the collegiate swagger but not the seamy lifestyle of Ms. Mangum? This is all Journalism 101…but only, if you want the truth, the facts. Only if you are keeping faith with providing the most accurate INFORMATION to your reader.<BR/><BR/> Where were the N&O sources ? Why weren't they interviewing people who knew and worked with or were part of Crystal's life? They wanted all the dirt on a college team to "fill out" the Team "story" but not a word on Durham's sex industry to help us understand Mangum's choices? Why did the N&O not do even the most minimal fact checking around town?<BR/><BR/>Or did they? Did Williams and company simply NOT want the facts on all sides of the story to be revealed? Had they already decided they knew, on an allegation and no evidence ALL THEY NEEDED about the case? Why did they essentially become, so easily, the propaganda arm of a corrupt prosecutor’s office? <BR/><BR/>Did they not want contrary information on Mangum to be revealed? They had created the perfect victim. To help her, they had shaped her interview to delete her comments against Kim. Crystal could not be the archetypical “Sister Survivor” if she was trashing another Black woman…that would mess up the heart-wrenching racial metanarrative. Williams cleaned THAT up for Crystal….to give her a good start at destroying those swaggering white boys. Williams SHAPED the interview. That is undeniable. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Had Williams et al. at the N&O decided that they “knew” boys like the Lacrosse players and needed to prop up and sanitize up their “victim” (as they repeatedly called Mangum) to give her the best chance to destroy these privileged creeps? Did Williams KNOW by the color of their skin, or the content of their Daddy’s wallets, or by gossip on local talk radio shows that she and her staff had to put the power of their newspaper on poor Mangum’s side to assure the proper “guilty” outcome? Her leaked memo reveals an angry woman exhorting those who work for her with her political “gotcha” world view. Is that why the first mention of Mangum’s criminal record was buried at the bottom of a routine piece? Did the N&O management think they were just leveling the playing field against wealth and privilege? Is this how the ”Weekend Editor” justified printing the Wanted Poster, a nifty cut-out guide to the Duke Lacrosse Players as an armed RACIST hate group came to campus to “interview them” …during Exam Week… when they could not leave? Was this supposed to be a “public service?”<BR/><BR/>From that first “shaped” interview to the Wanted Poster cut-out for Racist Militants, the N&O provided their readers with skewed biased reporting that could lead and did lead to false and dangerous conclusions. “You’re a dead man walking” someone shouted at Reade.<BR/><BR/>This was the level of pure malevolence the N&O directed at innocent young men! With just an allegation and no evidence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-62932904209365092792008-09-17T19:42:00.000-04:002008-09-17T19:42:00.000-04:00Sill, Drescher and Wright bear heavy responsibilit...<I>Sill, Drescher and Wright bear heavy responsibility for the N&O's Duke frame actions, uncluding cover-ups beginning in March 2006 and continuing until this day.</I><BR/><BR/>Wright?TruthHurts001https://www.blogger.com/profile/01183674558757778892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-72719740312609797302008-09-17T17:22:00.000-04:002008-09-17T17:22:00.000-04:00The N&O is a rapidly sinking ship, along with ...The N&O is a rapidly sinking ship, along with the entire McClatchy organization. Drescher, Sill and Williams will be looking for work soon and it is then, I believe, that their chickens will come home to roost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com