WUSA scrubbed all videos of dreadlock hoax and denies Mikea Turner's family friends disclosure?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Run TO the media.

The reporter didn't chase this girl down and beg for this story. The grandparents called the reporter.

Actually...

-- reporter has months long social media history pushing "natural hair" / discrimination political agenda
-- reporter asked for stories about natural hair / discrimination day(s) before interview
-- reporter showed up at the girl's home for a sit-down interview
-- reporter was first to loop in VP's wife to the hoax
-- reporter quoted major media tweets, boasting she first scooped the story
-- reporter invited the girl to the studio for follow-up milking

So a black female reporter does a months long series of tweets about the challenges black women face in the workplace with natural hairstyles. And?

You do realize that the hairstyle coverage goes back months, long before anyone heard of this kid, right?

And the grandparents contacted the reporter about this, right? Meaning they sought out the reporter, not the other way around.



At this point, Mr President, I'm afraid it's my duty as an American to tell you to step away from your computer and stop posting. You need some sleep. Get it while you can, because I hear it's hard to sleep in prison.

[Anonymous]

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New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Adding to my own post... is this because the boys actually did tease her, and from there it was a tempting and easy step to say they cut off a bit of her hair?
And then the reporter really wanted it to be true, and ran with the story, and the media picked it up because it's the kind of race-based oppression story that generates views?

Anyway. I don't agree with the very angry posters on this thread. Let this die down of its own accord, let's not punish unduly.

I'm just fascinated that no one is blaming the girl. There's lots of blame for the reporter. A bit of blame on the boys. Some more blame for the school. But when it comes to the girl, all we have is "I wonder why she did that?" As I said - fascinating.

Because she's a child, and could very well have been bullied or teased before this incident. She could also have been persuaded to lie by relatives or the reporter. I am certainly withholding judgement on her, PP, and don't find that fascinating at all - just reality.

Why, did you have something in mind, such as race or gender bias?

Well, it is quite obvious that the media is treating this black girl WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG much more kindly than they did treat some white boys WHO HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

No argument there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why blame her? Do you think she was in on it? If not, she was as duped as the rest of us.

You're ridiculous.

It was her f#cking job to verify facts before misleading the whole country and defame some minors and that school.

This.

Did she talk to other sources? Did she verify the story? That is a journalist’s job.

Otherwise, she’s just writing opinion pieces and should make that clear.

IMO, this is a big problem in journalism right now.

-Not the OP

She DID verify the story. The girl TOLD HER this happened. That's called firsthand sourcing, for those of you who aren't journalists.

She got confirmation from the school that they are looking into it.

She got confirmation from the Fairfax Police Dept that they are indeed investigating.


At this point, she has done her due diligence as a reporter. She can now report that this girl tells her that this happened, and the school and police confirm they are investigating it.




That's the story. An allegation that _____ happened. Here's a soundbite of the victim interview to listen to yourself. Here's the soundbite of the school saying they're investigating it. Here's the police spokesperson saying they're investigating it. That's a story. That's how it works.

The fact that the "victim" lied about the whole thing is something that is impossible for anyone, including the girl's grandparents and the reporter, to know until a thorough investigation is done by police.

Are any of you journalists? Either by training or practicing? I'm guessing no. Because if you were, you'd understand how this can happen.

And for those of you who are not, are you parents? Because if you are I ask you this: what would be your default condition - your very first instinct - if your child came to you with a story about _____ happening to them? A situation where your kid was claiming to be attacked and victimized?

Would your first instinct be to assume your kid is lying about the whole thing?

Or would you believe your kid?





We just had a national argument this spring about whether victims are to be believed or not when they say that 35 years ago a Supreme Court nominee acted like a cad. There were choruses of people on this very site crowing about how women MUST be believed, no matter what. On the heels of the MeToo movement, where WOMEN MUST BE BELIEVED!!!!!

So now, with this case, with hindsight being perfect, now we have the same idiot DCUM people here screaming "the reporter SHOULDN'T have believed her..... until the investigation was over".


Utter nonsense. Sheer, unbridled hypocrisy.


I almost never underestimate the stupidity of the DCUM crowd when it comes to .... well, anything. If there's anything I've learned in the years of observing this forum, it's that the people here who think they're the smartest ones in the room are usually the biggest idiots. So I'm almost never surprised by how dumb people here can be. Almost..... never.


Today is one of those times where I DID overestimate DCUM.


Live and learn. You folks are even stupider than previously thought.

Hi Mikea.

More like Mikea's drunk lover

Savage burn, brah. Savage.

[Anonymous]

Well, it is quite obvious that the media is treating this black girl WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG much more kindly than they did treat some white boys WHO HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

This.

And now people are saying "well, i am sure the boys did SOMETHING to her.

Why?

Because they are white.

Racists. The only proven liars and criminals in THIS story are not white.

[Anonymous]

This post reeks for so many reasons.

Voice of reason here.

As a former teacher, news media outlets should refrain from reporting school-based incidents and interviewing children. Period. I can’t begin to count the number of times during my teaching years that children made up stories or exaggerated events , many times a cry for attention and in some cases, help.

When I first saw the interview, my teacher gut told me that the child may have been either hiding something, lying, or excluding a major set of facts in the situation. Did the child cut her own hair experimenting and get caught? Did the child tell a lie to grandma to cover something up that she had no clue would extend to national news coverage? Did someone she “likes” cut some of her hair and she doesn’t want to get them in trouble?

Kids in crisis do some very seemingly strange things. I agree that scrubbing the child’s name and videos from the website was the right thing to do. The child needs counseling and the grandparents should not have to be vilified for perpetuity with their names and images out there on the internet forever.

The accused children have been possibly cleared and the adults need to move on.

[Anonymous]

I just read that the reporter had previously promoted the family's natural hair care company. Everyone involved, except the innocent boys, are shady AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it is quite obvious that the media is treating this black girl WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG much more kindly than they did treat some white boys WHO HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

This.

And now people are saying "well, i am sure the boys did SOMETHING to her.

Why?

Because they are white.

Racists. The only proven liars and criminals in THIS story are not white.

Actually, some of the liars may well be white.

Two NYT reporters and a number of unnamed editors also published this garbage story and with a headline clearly intended to play the race card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read that the reporter had previously promoted the family's natural hair care company. Everyone involved, except the innocent boys, are shady AF.

Daily Caller picked up the story

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/02/wusa-false-dreadlocks-story-natural-hair-laws-laws/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post reeks for so many reasons.

Voice of reason here.

As a former teacher, news media outlets should refrain from reporting school-based incidents and interviewing children. Period.

+1. And WUSA has not only not apologized, they don’t think they did anything wrong! TEGNA should be real proud of their flagship station.

[Anonymous]

I posted that I thought it was fake news several times on the previous thread. The moderator deleted it each time. Sounded so fake to me from the beginning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted that I thought it was fake news several times on the previous thread. The moderator deleted it each time. Sounded so fake to me from the beginning.

Yup.

Suspicious at the very least.

Thank God the school had cameras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Adding to my own post... is this because the boys actually did tease her, and from there it was a tempting and easy step to say they cut off a bit of her hair?
And then the reporter really wanted it to be true, and ran with the story, and the media picked it up because it's the kind of race-based oppression story that generates views?

Anyway. I don't agree with the very angry posters on this thread. Let this die down of its own accord, let's not punish unduly.

I'm just fascinated that no one is blaming the girl. There's lots of blame for the reporter. A bit of blame on the boys. Some more blame for the school. But when it comes to the girl, all we have is "I wonder why she did that?" As I said - fascinating.

Because she's a child, and could very well have been bullied or teased before this incident. She could also have been persuaded to lie by relatives or the reporter. I am certainly withholding judgement on her, PP, and don't find that fascinating at all - just reality.

Why, did you have something in mind, such as race or gender bias?

Well, it is quite obvious that the media is treating this black girl WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG much more kindly than they did treat some white boys WHO HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

I think this is where so much of the anger comes from.

I'm not White, but I feel like we see this over and over in different stories. The media wants to feed some crazy narrative - for ratings? because it's what the public wants? for money? - and so this is the kind of story we end up with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Adding to my own post... is this because the boys actually did tease her, and from there it was a tempting and easy step to say they cut off a bit of her hair?
And then the reporter really wanted it to be true, and ran with the story, and the media picked it up because it's the kind of race-based oppression story that generates views?

Anyway. I don't agree with the very angry posters on this thread. Let this die down of its own accord, let's not punish unduly.

I'm just fascinated that no one is blaming the girl. There's lots of blame for the reporter. A bit of blame on the boys. Some more blame for the school. But when it comes to the girl, all we have is "I wonder why she did that?" As I said - fascinating.

Because she's a child, and could very well have been bullied or teased before this incident. She could also have been persuaded to lie by relatives or the reporter. I am certainly withholding judgement on her, PP, and don't find that fascinating at all - just reality.

Why, did you have something in mind, such as race or gender bias?

Well, it is quite obvious that the media is treating this black girl WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG much more kindly than they did treat some white boys WHO HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

I think this is where so much of the anger comes from.

I'm not White, but I feel like we see this over and over in different stories. The media wants to feed some crazy narrative - for ratings? because it's what the public wants? for money? - and so this is the kind of story we end up with.

True.

We knew that the media was becoming more and more sensationalistic and less and less "hard news" -- but this type of stories only stoke anger and distrust.

[Anonymous]

Did you all fools forget that this actually did happen to the young man who was a wrestler. His locks were cut. So of course, when this story came out, everyone took it seriously. You guys are dumb for suggesting she should be fired or suspended. She won't be so get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read that the reporter had previously promoted the family's natural hair care company. Everyone involved, except the innocent boys, are shady AF.

Daily Caller picked up the story

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/02/wusa-false-dreadlocks-story-natural-hair-laws-laws/

It's a good story.