Comments on: Journalists and the Duke lacrosse case http://www.bloggernews.net/16065 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rhonda Fleming http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-1351218 Rhonda Fleming Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:14:48 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-1351218 We are working with Parent's Of Murdered Children to help us to solve my brother's murder, when the city of Durham NC, considers it closed! Nifong neglected his murder investigation for the LAX case, along with Janet Araboa, and our families have NOT given up our quest for JUSTICE! The MASSIVE CORRUPTION by the city of Durham, and the state of NC SHALL BE EXPOSED! The LaCrosse case has served as a smokescreen for too many years, and I implore all who reads this to contact the Governor, Bev Perdue, and request a Federal Investigation into my brother, Allen Jackson Croft Jr's murder. The form is located here. http://www.governor.state.nc.us/eTownhall/qa.aspx Respectfully, Rhonda Fleming Justice4Jack Sister of Allen Jackson Croft Jr. Murdered May 11, 2005 in Durham, NC Justice4all2005@yahoo.com We are working with Parent’s Of Murdered Children to help us to solve my brother’s murder, when the city of Durham NC, considers it closed!
Nifong neglected his murder investigation for the LAX case, along with Janet Araboa, and our families have NOT given up our quest for JUSTICE!
The MASSIVE CORRUPTION by the city of Durham, and the state of NC SHALL BE EXPOSED!
The LaCrosse case has served as a smokescreen for too many years, and I implore all who reads this to contact the Governor, Bev Perdue, and request a Federal Investigation into my brother, Allen Jackson Croft Jr’s murder. The form is located here. http://www.governor.state.nc.us/eTownhall/qa.aspx

Respectfully,
Rhonda Fleming
Justice4Jack
Sister of Allen Jackson Croft Jr.
Murdered May 11, 2005 in Durham, NC
Justice4all2005@yahoo.com

]]> By: Rhonda Fleming http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-286772 Rhonda Fleming Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:50:44 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-286772 ~LieStoppers~ Why have they closed their boards? Why call themselves LieStoppers if they practice censorship to prevent outing TRUTHS?! Another example of media gone yellow. Quash "Freedom Of Speech" but pornography and sensationalism is the motive to attract readers and attention. No better than what Nifong, corrupt politicians, law enforcement, and Durham did to the LAX team. I find it hypocritical to send people to the "corn field" for speaking up and about injustices, crimes against humanity, civil and basic human rights, and many other true pathetic examples of the evils of citizens and government. A site I once had respect for and joined to support the team, as my brother Allen Jackson Croft Jr was found dead under a train trestle May 11, 2005, and has YET to be INVESTIGATED, much less prosecuted! My family is not alone with unanswered questions about our loved ones murders, and have waited needlessly far too long! Lies truly do kill, and until we are told facts and truths suffer beyond comprehension. Wherein lies our rights to live under any moral and social code? What has become of our country and world? Rhonda Fleming Durham SURVIVOR Justice4All2005@yahoo.com ~LieStoppers~

Why have they closed their boards? Why call themselves LieStoppers if they practice censorship to prevent outing TRUTHS?!

Another example of media gone yellow. Quash “Freedom Of Speech” but pornography and sensationalism is the motive to attract readers and attention.

No better than what Nifong, corrupt politicians, law enforcement, and Durham did to the LAX team. I find it hypocritical to send people to the “corn field” for speaking up and about injustices, crimes against humanity, civil and basic human rights, and many other true pathetic examples of the evils of citizens and government. A site I once had respect for and joined to support the team, as my brother Allen Jackson Croft Jr was found dead under a train trestle May 11, 2005, and has YET to be INVESTIGATED, much less prosecuted! My family is not alone with unanswered questions about our loved ones murders, and have waited needlessly far too long! Lies truly do kill, and until we are told facts and truths suffer beyond comprehension. Wherein lies our rights to live under any moral and social code? What has become of our country and world?

Rhonda Fleming
Durham SURVIVOR
Justice4All2005@yahoo.com

]]> By: jeffersonflanders http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14770 jeffersonflanders Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:54:14 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14770 Responding to Ilia, I would agree that the May 1st Newsweek article included Reade Seligmann's alibi and other inconsistencies in Nifong's case. But the cover, with the two players' mug shots and the headline "Sex, lies and Duke" left the impression that Seligmann and Finnerty were somehow linked to "sex" and "lies"---when it was already clear that the case was weak. Would the editors of Newsweek have wanted their family members photos published on the front cover in similar circumstances (the old New York Times' Abe Rosenthal Test)? I think not. Jefferson Flanders Responding to Ilia,

I would agree that the May 1st Newsweek article included Reade Seligmann’s alibi and other inconsistencies in Nifong’s case. But the cover, with the two players’ mug shots and the headline “Sex, lies and Duke” left the impression that Seligmann and Finnerty were somehow linked to “sex” and “lies”—when it was already clear that the case was weak. Would the editors of Newsweek have wanted their family members photos published on the front cover in similar circumstances (the old New York Times’ Abe Rosenthal Test)? I think not.

Jefferson Flanders

]]> By: Ilia http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14740 Ilia Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:16:28 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14740 Kudos to journalists and bloggers who help to debunk the case! But I am confused - it is exactly the Newsweek article "Sex, lies and Duke", which convinced me that the case against the players was most probably a fraud. Reread the article and, yup, it is the article that basically did for me. What was distorted exactly? And if something was wrong in Newsweek, I am sure, after reading that article, nobody would think that Nifong's case was based on the facts, not false assumptions. Kudos to journalists and bloggers who help to debunk the case!
But I am confused - it is exactly the Newsweek article “Sex, lies and Duke”, which convinced me that the case against the players was most probably a fraud. Reread the article and, yup, it is the article that basically did for me.

What was distorted exactly? And if something was wrong in Newsweek, I am sure, after reading that article, nobody would think that Nifong’s case was based on the facts, not false assumptions.

]]> By: margaret http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14659 margaret Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:26:21 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14659 Please don't forget the greatest offender, RITA CROSBY. She is a disgrace along with Nancy Grace and Wendy Murphy! Please don’t forget the greatest offender, RITA CROSBY. She is a disgrace along with Nancy Grace and Wendy Murphy!

]]> By: Nobody Knows http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14452 Nobody Knows Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:14:18 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16065#comment-14452 The abuse of these men by the media, academia, various groups and organizations is egregious. I find it equally as nasty to contemplate the wealth of articles flowing from the same sources decrying the abuse that they, themselves, are guilty of. I hope that the Duke players a)find a meaningful and positive future that is free of this crap that has been heaped upon them and b) that they sue every single individual or group that maligned them that they possibly can. They should make so much money off of it that they never have to work in their lives. The system is corrupt. The Political system is corrupt, the Judicial system is rife with prosecutorial misconduct and there are innocent people in prison all over our land, we have secret prisons and our leaders aren't accountable, and the media is a joke and can not be trusted with the truth or with the reputations of people it focuses on. It repeatedly abdicates its responsibility to please its advertizers and its political benefactors. Pathetic and sad. The abuse of these men by the media, academia, various groups and organizations is egregious. I find it equally as nasty to contemplate the wealth of articles flowing from the same sources decrying the abuse that they, themselves, are guilty of. I hope that the Duke players a)find a meaningful and positive future that is free of this crap that has been heaped upon them and b) that they sue every single individual or group that maligned them that they possibly can. They should make so much money off of it that they never have to work in their lives. The system is corrupt. The Political system is corrupt, the Judicial system is rife with prosecutorial misconduct and there are innocent people in prison all over our land, we have secret prisons and our leaders aren’t accountable, and the media is a joke and can not be trusted with the truth or with the reputations of people it focuses on. It repeatedly abdicates its responsibility to please its advertizers and its political benefactors. Pathetic and sad.

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