No reporter no matter how objective they try to be can be 100% successful in keeping their personal opinions from influencing the way they present a story.

What do you think the intent is of these news agencies?

It seems to me that the main thrust of it all is that there has not been an arrest made and there has not been a convincing presentation of evidence supporting the lack of action. Lacking full information makes people outside the police and justice system believe an injustice may or has occurred.

Unfortunately for the US African Americans have been the victims of so many injustices through the years that one cannot blame them for assuming that this is just another example of it. So our African American brothers and sisters are pushing for action using the only tools available to them, the media being the main one.

Until Zimmerman is arrested or until a complete disclosure of facts convinces folks that what has transpired is appropriate the clamor will continue, and rightly so IMHO.

As for Walter Cronkite, I think you have characterized his comments on the reporting of the Tet offensive incorrectly. As I remember it it was not whether we "won" or "lost" the Tet offensive that made it significant, it was the fact that the North could mount such a large offensive at all.

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