When a newspaper apologizes for publishing an accurate headline

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Jazz Shaw:

After the tragic ambush murders of multiple police officers in Dallas recently, many of the same old conversations were kicked off in the media. These included the usual recriminations, warnings and misdirection which accompany any such incident, but for once there was at least some level of consensus as to who did it and why. The name was provided fairly quickly and the “why” portion of the coverage was available from the recorded conversations between the shooter and hostage negotiators. (At least until the bomb throwing robot showed up. Good job, sparky.) One unexpected consequence, however, turned up in Tennessee, where a newspaper found themselves having to issue an apology for publishing a headline which included a direct quote from the killer. (Fox News)

A newspaper in Memphis quickly apologize after protestors complained about its choice of headline in the wake of the deadly police shooting in Dallas.

“Gunman targeted whites,” read the lead story headline in the Commercial Appeal, a member of the USA Today network. The headline was accurate, as Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson explicitly talked about wanted to kill white police officers before he was eliminated via robot bomb.

That didn’t stop protestors from gathering outside the paper’s office in downtown Memphis on Wednesday to express their displeasure, some holding signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”

Commercial Appeal editor Louis Graham quickly apologized after meeting with the protestors, and wrote an editorial titled, “We got it wrong.”

In case you’re feeling as if you must be missing something here, you didn’t. That was essentially the entire story. The shooter told law enforcement as a direct quote that he wanted to kill white people, particularly white cops. Nobody coerced the statement out of him. He just put it out there for the world to digest. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis ran a short headline stating exactly that fact. And then the Black Lives Matter protesters showed up outside their offices, so the editor – Louis Graham – quickly ran to his keyboard to issue a full throated apology for printing something which he again noted was factually accurate as part of the retraction.

Graham’s “excuse” for how this exercise in what used to be referred to as journalism made it into print is shocking, but the steps he plans to take in ensuring that no such further truth makes it into 26 point type on the front page is even more embarrassing.

The checks and balances in place to avoid just this type of disconnect didn’t work that night for a variety of reasons. Too few people looked at the front page before it rolled off our presses. We’ve taken steps to correct that. But the larger challenge is recruiting a diverse enough staff to better reflect the city we cover. We continue to work on that and will be more introspective about how we do our jobs.

The editor’s comment about better reflecting the city we cover is a call-back to his introduction, where he points out that the headline was particularly offensive because it was printed, “in a city with a 65 percent African American population.” This is apparently the current state of American journalism.

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Protesting the media for not printing the proper propaganda.
http://www.infowars.com/cozy-blm-leader-lives-in-home-owned-by-soros-open-society-board-member/
Next time call George he will give you what lies you are allowed to publish.
Just as MSNBC Labels Nice Terror Attack as a ‘Truck Crash’.

America has many enemies and George Soros is just one of them theres also the United Nations they were never ever created for Peace a vulture pretending to be a dove and fooling a lot of us all

Rudy was right. Describing Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization accurately described their actions and philosophy. The addition of the “New” Black Panthers is even more alarming given their agenda.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels
applied in 1941 as is today. the radical jackass panthers have been around since the ’60. illiterate blm should be classified as a radical terrorist organization. you think the idiot mulim pres. would ever declare them an issue. the criminal hilary would make them arm of her secret police.

I would like to see these liberal news rags appoligise for their usial anti NRA crappy cartoons or their usial lies but HEY IM FLYING TO THE MOON FOR THE WINTER SQUAWK ‘SQUAWK KKRRAWW ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME?

The truth is not PC so don’t publish it? This is atrocious.

Наибольшие потери является обольщение в средствах массовой информации, который разрушил Америку.

@MOS # 8541:
I don’t know, MOS,
The media has always been deceptive.
It is good we can fact check it on line.
There are some good reporters out there on the web.

Nanny G,
I am glad that someone is literate in a second language. One keyboard is in English a second in Russian. True, there are good journalists that work the trenches everyday around the world. Depending upon the political configuration of the reporting network their work may or may not become publishable.

Of course, when someone black is shot, their race HAS to be mentioned in the headline. If a criminal is black or an illegal immigrant, you are left to research that, if you want to know. The narrative of whites randomly and systematically killing blacks has to be maintained. Whites being attacked in the “knock-out game”, white couples being attacked by black gangs (all due to race) and white cops killed because they are white is harmful information that must be suppressed.

The media is liberal and corrupt. I’m sure this paper cannot imagine why they would have printed a fact about a shooting.