Frances Robles has become is the most pathetic excuse for a one-hit-wonder journalist. With only one storyline to occupy her time, she spent dozens of hours putting this article about “Bloggers and Trayvon Martin Case” together.
There is even a petition to see her dispatched to the land of irrelevence.
Read her latest diatribe, and ask yourself a question.
What value does this have to 
a reader? Other than page/space filler what is it about, and who actually would invest the time to write about, what, exactly?
It sure would be nice to see this much effort or energy in, say, well, Lake Mary Florida, for a few days talking to “actual people” about, one of Robles’ most, well, recent propaganda accusations.
My hat is off to all the folks who refused her contact requests, and I know there are many TreeHouse visitors on that list. And to those website operators who willingly participated in her sophomoric attempt at journalism, you should be ashamed. Here is a portion of her scribble, or you can GO HERE for the whole crayon:
(Miami Herald) While other people watch reality shows, a marketing specialist in Michigan who goes by the name “Bcclist” spends time in his yard, calculating Trayvon Martin’s last steps with a tape measure and smart phone stop watch.
He is joined on the Internet by Dave Turner, an Illinois man who had his sons yell in the dark from a distance of 30 feet to see whether he could tell which one cried for help.
Both men are often guided by the work of “Tchoupi,” an engineer with a Ph.D. in physics who has spent countless hours making maps, analyzing witness statements and fleeting headlight patterns in surveillance videos to compute George Zimmerman’s moves the night he killed Trayvon.
The three are among a growing group of people on the Internet so fascinated by the mystery of the killing that captivated the nation that they are out to crack the case themselves. They listen to jailhouse calls, pore over witness statements, study evidentiary documents and measure walking speeds.
After hundreds of hours going through the records, some believe they have debunked Zimmerman’s account of what happened that rainy Feb. 26 night in a gated community in Sanford, when the former neighborhood watch volunteer says he was jumped by Trayvon and was forced to kill him during a struggle. Others say the same evidence points a finger at Trayvon, the 17-year-old Miami Gardens high school junior who they believe contributed to his own death. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder.
Experts say the amateur sleuths may very well be the new-media reality for high-profile criminal cases in Florida, where extraordinary public records laws make evidence widely available before trial. In a big case such as this one, prosecutors provide information electronically, meaning anyone with Internet access can comb through the evidence. The bloggers say their intense interest in the case underscores a deep-seated distrust in both law enforcement and the mainstream media, who they blame for shoddy coverage and poor analysis of the facts.
Florida’s “trials of the century” take place so publicly that the exposure of evidence raises profound questions about whether the public’s right to know has trumped a defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial. With such a serious risk of jury pool contamination, Zimmerman’s attorney jumped into the fray to be sure that the evidence favorable to the defense was reviewed on the blogosphere, too. (Continue reading)
Perhaps the most embarrassed person who contributed to Ms Robles’ article should be Jeralyn Merritt, who blogs at TalkLeft.com and who finds herself now linked to self-described fabulous people like “Super Filexican” and an unknown woman with 9 cats who is destroying the legal universe by discussing the State Vs. Zimmerman.
It is obvious from the narrative that rabid prog-lefty Jeralyn’s sense of self-importance pushed her right into the useful hands of Robles. Progs are just simply idiots, even when they are right about an issue they just can’t stop worshipping themselves…..
