Which is why I used her religion as my example. Was her religion a major factor in why she was shot? Without any corroborating evidence, such a conclusion is just commentary, not news. Did the shooter have an anti-Democrat or anti-Semitic shirt on? Shout slogans of such a nature? Did he do anything to say why he was shooting at the time of the shooting? No. It is only after the fact that information implying his motivations are found.
News is about facts at the time of reporting. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > When it's Jewish Congresswoman shot by man with possible ties to > anti-semitic group...it would show a potential connection. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 22:44 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Democratic congresswoman shot in the head at point blank > range. > > > I wonder what the response would have been if I posted "Jewish > congresswomen > shot in the head at point blank range". > > Think it though and realistically imagine your response to such a post. Try > to block out what you've read from this thread and the news since and > really > think of your response. How many here would have a first reaction of "how > do > you know it's because she was Jewish", "why do you inject religion into > this", "there's no proof it was an anti-semitic thing", and on and on. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333085 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
