Strong opinions about Trayvon Martin's murder

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

41. Other. The case has been exploited by the media, who have created multiple conflicting narratives

about the evidence that has been released, what is generally known, and a whole lot of assumptions about what was going on inside of various peoples' heads at various times.

There has been a conscious, intentional, calculated effort to push peoples' hot buttons in order to garner increased advertising sales and ultimately corporate income. The perpetrators of the big sham are not above using, and demonstrably have used, such propaganda devices as persistent repetition of false information, exaggerations, sharp focus on issues that will be seen as minutiae by the legal system (but not by the lay public,) rumors, character assassination, etc.; even as far as the Big Lie.

At the end of the day I believe a lot of people will wake up and realize that they have been emotionally manipulated; some others may remain in denial no matter how the trial turns out. Still others will feel elevated by a false yet convincing sense of vindication that they were right all along. These are not new things in the human experience, they have been made more intense by fast propagation of bad information as well as good.

Either way, there will be a lot of people who feel there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. That will be the fault largely of the media that I helped to pioneer, I'm afraid.

I am very, very sorry to see some of my creations and ideas used for unsavory purposes.