Is Ferguson a Social Media Victim?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 21st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Is Ferguson a Social Media Victim?
Froma Harrop, RealClearPolitics
Soon the cameras, protesters, gawkers and tweeters will depart Ferguson, Missouri, leaving the question: What will be left of this embattled city when the smoke clears? We’ve seen predominantly African-American communities caught up in such turmoil before. We’ve seen the people’s buildings, stores, places of employment and reputation wrecked for decades — Watts in 1965 and Newark in 1967. In both cases, demonstrations set off by long-simmering grievances attracted violence and those who feasted on it. What’s different this time is the role of social media in changing both how the story is…
Sullivan’s Alaska Win: Another GOP Establishment Triumph
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
There may not have been an incumbent on the ballot in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Alaska, but the national GOP establishment had a favored horse in the race in former state attorney general Dan Sullivan. And as has happened time and again this primary season, the establishment candidate triumphed over a Tea Party foe whom Washington Republicans feared would be unelectable in November. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Sullivan won 40.1 percent of the vote, besting Tea Party favorite Joe Miller (32 percent) and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (24.9). Miller had been running a…
The Media and the Mob
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
Those of us who admit that we were not there, and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, seem to be in the minority. We all know what has happened since then — and it has been a complete disgrace by politicians, the media and mobs of rioters and looters. Despite all the people who act as if they know exactly what happened, nevertheless when the full facts come out, that can change everything. This is why we have courts of law, instead of relying on the media or mobs. But politics is undermining law. On the eve of a grand jury being…
