When The Media Doesn’t Check The Facts
From: L. Michael Hall
2021 Neurons #75
November 22, 2021
Facts #5
In this deep dive into facts, what they are, how to identify a true fact from a false one, how to establish factual evidence, there has been playing out on the media in the past couple weeks a real mis-use of “facts” and generation of non-facts. Some of the media, not all of it, has played really loose and wild with facts, others have offered lies as “facts” with a straight face. In the last administration, the media “fact checked” everything President Trump said. Today they have given that up and do not even attempt to fact check President Biden.
Here’s a fact to start with. On Friday, the jury in Kenosha Wisconsin returned a “not guilty” verdict on all five counts against Kyle Rittenhouse. After 26 hours of deliberating, they decided on the basis of the facts and the evidence presented that Kyle had shot three people in self-defense. That event occurred in August of 2020 when a young teenager came to Kenosha where his dad lived the day after riots and burnings of buildings to give medical aid and to protect a friends. Once there, he was asked to help protect a friend’s car dealership from the violence and rioting.
The amazing thing about facts is that they are pretty easily established when you have a video record. And that’s what the jury had. So the case for self-defense was pretty easy given that you could see Kyle running away from the mob and being chased and then defending himself. There was also video of him falling to the ground, being beaten on the head with a skateboard.