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Most trusted name in news? Not CNN |
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Personal attacks |
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05/23/2005 |
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1. They didn't accept money from Soros or "someone like" him.
2. It's never an either/or. Having people in jail who are wrongly accused is utterly irrelevant to the issue of whether there are unsolved crimes. Even a right wing moron knows you don't "solve" a crime by putitng someone in jail who is innocent.
3. Why would unsolved crimes be part of a documentary that isn't about unsolved crimes?
You're a reporter? I hope it's someplace like Fargo ND... because your analytical skills aren't strong enough for a bigger market...and, come to think of it, that's probably an insult to the people of Fargo. |
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Personal attacks are a sign of someone who cannot form a proper argument.
Robin Mejia produced this program for CNN. On HER OWN website is this:
"Funding for this investigation was provided in part by a 2003 Soros Justice Media Fellowship awarded to Robin Mejia by the Open Society Institute, and by a grant to CIR from the Ford Foundation and CIR's Investigative Venture Fund."
Unsolved crimes are relevant because that is the real effect of underfunded crime labs. Soros-- and the program in question try to draw the conclusion that an overwhelming amount of innocent people are jailed because of problems with crime labs.
The truth is that there are very few people that end up wrongly incarcerated. On the flip-side, an overwhelming number of violent criminals are ending up serving very little or no time in jail. This isn't even mentioned!
Also, the innocence project is a one-sided, one-argument organization designed to keep the flow of money going to defense attornies. They are by no means objective.
The jury is still out on cnn.
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