Wednesday, 20 March 2013

FUCK CNN

North amerikkkan society is fucked up, to the point where there is nothing worth saving. It has to be torn out by it's roots, so we can put something better in it's place. The recent coverage on that rape case in steubenville, ohio, where those "star" football players raped a drunk and unconscious 16 year old girl  is a case in point. Those shitwipes at cnn showed their true colours when they showed far more sympathy for the perpetrators of the hideous crime, than for the victim. They talked about how they watched as those young men's lives "fell apart". Fuck that, and fuck them. What about the victim? She will live with this trauma for the rest of her life, and she has recently been threatened by two other young women from the same school. If you were this girl's parent, wouldn't you want to give those asshole football motherfuckers your own brand of punishment? Fuck them, and fuck cnn.

Petition blasting CNN for allegedly sympathetic coverage of Steubenville, Ohio, rape convicts garners more than 200,000 signatures

CNN anchor Candy Crowley and reporter Poppy Harlow have been criticized for spending the bulk of their verdict coverage on how the teenage offenders, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, would fare.

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Reporter Poppy Harlow said, “I’ve never experienced anything like it, Candy. It was incredibly emotional, incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures — star football players, very good students — we literally watched as, they believe, their life fell apart.”

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Describing the courtroom atmosphere when the guilty verdict was read, Reporter Poppy Harlow said, “I’ve never experienced anything like it, Candy. It was incredibly emotional, incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures — star football players, very good students — we literally watched as, they believe, their life fell apart."

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An online petition protesting CNN’s coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case verdict has garnered nearly 205,000 signatures.
In reporting Sunday’s guilty verdict for Steubenville High School football players Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, CNN anchor Candy Crowley and reporter Poppy Harlow seemed, to many observers, to have spent the bulk of their airtime empathizing with the 16-year-old boys rather than victim in the crime.
“While reporting on the verdict and sentencing of the two Steubenville rapists, the CNN news personalities told us repeatedly how difficult it was to watch these boy's lives being destroyed. How their crime will haunt them,” the introduction to the petition at Change.org states. “These criminals destroyed their own lives, when they decided to repeatedly rape an incapacitated girl. When they decided to film and share their horrific crime.”
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CNN anchor Candy Crowley said, “When you listen to it and you realize they could stay until they’re 21, what’s the lasting effect, though, on two young men being found guilty, in juvenile court, of rape, essentially?” Such remarks have led to calls for CNN to apologize.

Harlow was inside the courtroom when the verdict was read and gave the following account.
“I’ve never experienced anything like it, Candy. It was incredibly emotional, incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures — star football players, very good students — we literally watched as, they believe, their life fell apart,” Harlow said. “One of the young men, Ma’lik Richmond, when that sentence came down, he collapsed in the arms of his attorney. . . . He said to him, ‘My life is over! No one is going to want me now.’ ”
For her part, Crowley seemed equally moved by what the two convicted rapists now faced as a result of their crimes.
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Ma’lik Richmond breaks down as he apologizes to the victim's family.

“A 16-year-old just sobbing in court -- regardless of what big football players they are, they still sound like 16-year-olds,” Crowley said. “When you listen to it and you realize they could stay until they’re 21, what’s the lasting effect, though, on two young men being found guilty, in juvenile court, of rape, essentially?”
The petition, which received 90,000 signatures in less than 24 hours, included a letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker.
“Apologize for your disgusting coverage of the Steubenville Rapists. Devote an hour long, prime time segment to rape, it's victims, what can be done to prevent it, and how to change the culture that gives rise to this violent crime,” the letter states. “Or better yet, produce and air a series of in depth segments taking your role as journalists seriously and actually report on the issue of rape.”
Toward the end of the CNN segment, Harlow did talk about the victim in the case.
“Her life never the same again. Absolutely, Candy. The last thing she wanted to do was sit on that stand and testify. She didn't want to bring these charges. She said it was up to her parents,” Harlow said. “But I want to tell our viewers about a statement that her mother just made, just made in the court after the sentencing. Her mother just said that she has pity on the two young boys that did this. She said human compassion is not taught by teachers or coaches. It's a God-given gift, saying that you displayed a lack of compassion, a lack of moral code, saying that you were your own accuser throughout this for posting about this all over social media. And she said she takes pity on them. As far as her daughter, she said she will persevere -- she will get through this.”
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