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Originally Posted by Oralist
I like it that Robin Roberts and ABC/ GMA are all busy trying to cover their tracks. She should have gotten her story from the Police after the facts were known. But, it's who gets the story first, not who gets the true facts.
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And there in lies the problem that's been created by the need to "sell" news rather than just report it. Got to get that story first so they can keep the ratings up and sell commercial time.
So now the whole thing has flipped and everyone is pronouncing him guilty and that he needs to be locked up starting with Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Now admittedly he knows the facts but I think it just as irresponsible for him to come out with the statement he made as it was for all the networks to assume Smollet's story was above reproach.
Regardless of whether he took the risk of being convicted in the court of public opinion, He still deserves a fair trial in a court of law by an impartial jury. That ain't going to happen and the way the covering of the story has flipped is going to cause undue scrutiny for anyone else. You can blame that on Smollet to some degree or better yet you can say he should have known better but the real blame goes to the media and the consumers of it for having to have the pendulum swing as far as it can one way or the other.
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