04-19-2013, 06:21 PM
As shoju pointed out, you jumped to conclusions just like the "news" organizations did. CNN is not a news organization, hell they fired most of their journalists a year or so ago and when asked about it said that they could hire people that could read social media and google facts for less money. I haven't trusted them for years.
The last American based agency I have any faith in anymore is NPR, and I'm aware of their biases and faults too. So http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013...n=20130419 is the best consolidated source that I trust. As mentioned there are other sources that you can trust, but it's not always organized like this.
Both of them have been here for years and the younger brother sounds like he very well could have been naturalized at this point, he's been here for 7 years now. If I were to draw conclusions on those linked bios I could say the older brother convinced the younger to help him out and the younger helped because it was his brother asking. He may have shared some of the thoughts, heck probably had to at some level to do what he did, but family can be powerful. Now he may simply be scared and confused and possibly even very guilt ridden and hiding not knowing what to do. It doesn't excuse him, and I could be just as off as CNN with so many things. But if wanted to make that a report many of the "news" agency would probably buy it and air it as fact if I had "criminal investigator" or "psychologist" attached to my name.
It's odd that the awful reporting on this incident might be what I end up the most upset about. We've had bad reporting before, but some of the things that have come out on this...
The last American based agency I have any faith in anymore is NPR, and I'm aware of their biases and faults too. So http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013...n=20130419 is the best consolidated source that I trust. As mentioned there are other sources that you can trust, but it's not always organized like this.
Both of them have been here for years and the younger brother sounds like he very well could have been naturalized at this point, he's been here for 7 years now. If I were to draw conclusions on those linked bios I could say the older brother convinced the younger to help him out and the younger helped because it was his brother asking. He may have shared some of the thoughts, heck probably had to at some level to do what he did, but family can be powerful. Now he may simply be scared and confused and possibly even very guilt ridden and hiding not knowing what to do. It doesn't excuse him, and I could be just as off as CNN with so many things. But if wanted to make that a report many of the "news" agency would probably buy it and air it as fact if I had "criminal investigator" or "psychologist" attached to my name.
It's odd that the awful reporting on this incident might be what I end up the most upset about. We've had bad reporting before, but some of the things that have come out on this...
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.