OH no you don’t…… ABC is trying slowly to back away from their specific and intentional narrative. They are trying to regain some credibility. However, they will NOT be permitted to walk away from their culpability in this false intentional manipulation. We will hold them to account. Here is their latest attempt to walk away innocently whistling, after specifically and intentionally falsifying their reporting:
(ABC News) Old Photos May Be Deceptive in Fla. Shooting Case – When he was shot, Trayvon Martin was not the baby-faced boy in the photo that has been on front pages across the country. And George Zimmerman wasn’t the beefy-looking figure in the widely published mugshot.
Both photos are a few years old and no longer entirely accurate. Yet they may have helped shape initial public perceptions of the deadly shooting.
“When you have such a lopsided visual comparison, it just stands to reason that people would rush to judgment,” said Kenny Irby, who teaches visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The most widely seen picture of Martin, released by his family, was evidently taken a few years ago and shows a smiling, round-cheeked youngster in a red T-shirt. But at his death, Martin was 17 years old, around 6 feet tall and, according to his family’s attorney, about 140 pounds. [Coroners report states 160lbs…/SD]
Zimmerman, 28, is best known from a 7-year-old booking photo of an apparently heavyset figure with an imposing stare, pierced ear and facial hair, the orange collar of his jail uniform visible. The picture, released by police following the deadly shooting, was taken after Zimmerman’s 2005 arrest on an assault-on-an-officer charge that was eventually dropped.
In a police video made public this week of Zimmerman being brought in for questioning a half-hour after the shooting, the 5-foot-9 man appears much slimmer. [He’s 5’8″ and 170 lbs… /SD]
In a case that has caused a nationwide furor over race and the laws of self-defense, Martin was shot to death by Zimmerman in the city of Sanford on Feb. 26 as the unarmed black teenager was walking back from a convenience store.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic, has claimed self-defense, saying he opened fire after Martin punched him in the face, knocked him to the ground and began slamming his head on the sidewalk.
Black leaders and others are demanding Zimmerman’s arrest on murder or manslaughter charges, but state and federal authorities are still investigating.
Betsi Grabe, a professor at Indiana University-Bloomington who has studied the effect of news images on public opinion, said photos that gain the most traction play into the desires of both journalists and the public for a story with a distinct victim and aggressor.
“At the center of most stories we tell in our society, cross-culturally and across the centuries, is the struggle between good and evil,” she said. “If the ingredients are there, that is what journalists will grab onto and present.”
Grabe said it is natural to present the most innocent-looking image of the person believed to be the victim, and the most menacing one of the suspect.
A more complex portrait of the two figures has emerged since then. A photo of a beaming Zimmerman looking sharp in a jacket and tie has come out, along with a more recent picture of Martin, with gold teeth and a white sleeveless undershirt. At the same time, it was learned that Martin had been suspended from school for marijuana residue in his backpack.
The Associated Press has not been able to verify the sources or creators of what are purported to be more recent photographs of Martin circulating online and elsewhere. The family’s attorney has not released the photos. (read more)
Lets just deal in facts surrounding optics. This is the way the institutional leftist legacy media wanted to portray Trayvon:
They even went so far as to “doctor the photographs” of him:
Actual picture Doctored version printed by media
This is what they ignored:
These photographs were just as available to the “Mainstream Legacy Media” as they were to the new media doing research. Yet they chose a particular optic to sell their narrative.
Because this ABC article is focused on “optics”, well, now lets look at Height and Weight. Remember, The media originally reported that George Zimmerman was 5’8″ and 248 lbs. They originally reported Trayvon Martin as 6’0 and 140 lbs. They continually sold the narrative that Zimmerman outweighed Trayvon by 100 lbs so subsequently he could not possibly be at a disadvantage in a physical confrontation.
We now know with certainty, that George Zimmerman is 5’8″ @170lbs, and Trayvon Martin was 6’3″ and 160 lbs. The TRUTH is quite different than the false media narrative huh?
