KSTP savaged for Mayor Hodges
Have you ever had the experience of being so embarrassed for someone who has so completely stepped in it that you can t even turn away from the scene? So it is with KSTP TV s Jay Kolls (and his managers) after patagonia houdini discount0last night s report on Mayor Betsy Hodges flashing gang signs. The hyper liberal Daily Kos was one of the first national outlets to jump on it. Shaun King writes, What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction. It s so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it s satire from The Onion. It s real though, and that s what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal. Does the Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP not have a filter in which something that smells this bad gets flagged for poor journalism? Sadly, only racism allows such an ugly story and stereotype to be advanced about a young man who was clearly not flashing a gang sign with the mayor of Minneapolis. He deserves a public apology and heads should roll at this station for even allowing it to ever make it to the air.
Paige Lavender and Nick Wing at Huffington Post say, KSTP reporterpatagonia shoes buy online Jay Kolls has defended the station s interpretation of the photo, suggesting the point is actually a symbol of a local gang called the Stick Up Boys. Kolls did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Huffington Post. Video is available at both sites.patagonia better sweater icelandic
For Jezebel, Anna Merlan says, Kolls also spoke to a retired cop, Michael Quinn, who told him, She s putting cops at risk, adding, The fact that they re flashing gang signs back and forth at each other, showing solidarity with the gangs, she s legitimizing what they re doing. She s legitimizing these people that are killing our children in Minneapolis. Or. she s. pointing. The hashtag Pointergate has blown up on Twitter, and another Daily Kos reporter, David Waldman, has responded to the controversy by merrily digging up reporter Kolls own criminal record, namely a DUI arrest from 2007. The photo in question
In the International Business Times (!) Julia Glum writes, Pointergate was trending on Twitter Friday morning as people across the United States reacted with outrage and humor to what some are calling the most racist news story of 2014 Gordon is a felon, twice convicted, on drug selling and firearm possession charges. He is under supervised probation until 2016. For the past two years, Gordon has been a member of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, a Minnesota charity aimed at fighting for racial and economic justice for low income residents. Last weekend, the organization s volunteers canvassed in Minneapolis along with the mayor and police chief, Janee Harteau.
In Vanity Fair Kia Makarechi says, Today from the file of stories that would be simply ridiculous if they didn t reveal sad repatagonia guide pants specialalities of life in America: during a get out the vote drive, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posed for a photo with a black constituent, only to be slammed by local police as throwing up gang signs. Hodges had previously criticized the police force, and told residentspatagonia houdini discount that she was aware that some officers abuse the trust that is afforded to them, and take advantage of their roles to do harm rather than prevent it. It appears as though some officers have found a way to strike back with an assist from KTSP, the ABC affiliate.
For Talking Points Memo Brendan James says, A Minnesota television station was met with widespread outrage and ridicule on Friday after it aired a segment claiming Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges had recently flashed a gang sign while standing next to a convicted felon. What the report left out: the photograph was taken during an event put on by the Twin Cities charity Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC), and the young man, identified in the news segment simply as a criminal, was a volunteer. The story is so far beyond a mere dog whistle it s a dog siren.
In a fast commentary of the Strib, Nekima Levy Pounds, a professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School, writes, My eyes could not believe what I was seeing, but not for the reasons one may think. I could not believe that any credible news station in the Twin Cities would produce a segment like the one in question and attempt to pass it off as legitimate news. After the story aired, many in our community took to social media, with the hashtag pointergate to express their outrage. The daily replaying of the narrative of blackness as evil,patagonia shelled fleece jacket kids size 12 excellent condition great color dangerous, and in the case of Mayor Hodges, contagious, has a cumulative effect on the American psyche and permanently warps our perceptions of the other. Somehow I don t think the others are the target demo for that kind of story.
Also at the Strib, Eric Roper reports, Hundreds took to Twitter to lambast the story, which many said had racist overtones, under the hashtag pointergate. Many also posted photos of celebrities with similar hand gestures, alleging sarcastically that they too were in a gang. Kolls defended the story in subsequent responses over the course of Thursday evening. Some of these are pretty funny if you re not Kolls or KSTP.
KSTP s official response to it all: Law enforcement sources alerted KSTP TV to a photo they believed could jeopardize public safety and put their officers at risk, especially given the recent increase in gpatagonia houdini discount3ang violence. Multiple sources from several law enforcement agencies told 5 EYEWITNpatagonia arizona for saleESS NEWS the photo had the potentpatagonia austin store hoursial for undermining the work they are doing on the streets. 5 Eyewitness Newpatagonia houdini discount1s blurred the individual s face and did not name the group he was working for because police called into question only the judgment of Mayor Betsy Hodges. Which, I think, is another way of saying, We swallowed the internal cop politics strategy on this hook, line and sinker.
Daily Kos is very middle of the road, and far more fact based than most of what you ll find coming out of Limbaugh s mouth or see on weasel news.
(sorry, that was an insult to weasels).
Aren t the studios from which the weasel broadcasts lovingly referred to as fantasy island?
As far as KSTP goes, the old canard that things rot from the head definitely comes to mind.
Considering the size of the police force of Minneapolis, I m sure an enterprising Nightcrawler type reporter could find a retired officer to back up any kind of whacked out, racist theory that the reporter was trying to add credence to,.
but that doesn t mean that officer knows any more about what he or she is talking about than the average person on the street,.
and of course there s not a SHRED of racism to be found among retired police officers in Minneapolis, is there!?
If I hadn t given up watching ALL local TV news a few years back, because it ALL leaves a great deal to be desired, with far too much fluff, and far too little hard news, and far too much if it bleeds it leads, .
I d boycott KSTP news now. Perhaps opatagonia everlong review rokuthers will make that choice.
Daily Kos is liberal. That makes it not middle of the road, and I don t think it presents itself as middle of the road (the way Fox News does with its fair and balanced slogan what an awful choice for a slogan). MPR is left leaning middle of the road. Daily Kos leans more to the left than MPR. Which is fine. I also agree with you that liberal sites like Daily Kos are more fact based than conservative ones like Fox News, and their points are generally based on more concrete prinpatagonia fly fishing instructionciples. But the only reason I would see to call any liberal organization middle of the road is perhaps a generation or so frompatagonia guide jacket and shorts now when the middle of the road may not be between two heavily polarized sides and more are on the liberal side. Although I m not convinced we re not creating new conservatives with the recession and aftermath and the me first hunkering down that resulted.
That said, I m disturbed that Kolls and KSTP chose to do this. It s the least controversial news I ve seen in ages, in terms of people taking sides. People are overwhelmingly hating on the news station.
And I don t get the cop response at all. Creepy.
I don t watch primetime news like Dateline and 20/20 because it s not news, but I generally like local news. C mon, they have the best bloopers on YouTube. Seriously, I think local news is important for the community. I m a newspaper journalist, and I ve covered the same events the local news covered. A lot of the TV news people work their asses off to bring qualitypatagonia houdini discount2 coverage to viewers who want to read about death, scandal, sex crimes and drugs. Same with newspaper reporters. It sucks.
And I d boycott KSTP too. I m just flabbergasted they allowed this to go on. Bad, bad move.
The Kos piece says heads should roll at this station for even allowing it to ever make it to the air.
Hah. As MinnPost reported in Feb. of 2012, KSTP owner Hubbard Broadcasting donated $100,000 to a Karl Rove PAC, plus another $100K to a Tom Emmer linked group.
These were not private contributions by the billionaire chairman or the Hubbard family (they give, too, of course). This was direct corporate money, profit earned selling viewer eyeballs to TV advertisers, going directly to GOP and right wing groups.
If anything, given all the flack, I can see the news director getting a big ol atta girl from Stanley.
