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Sourcing Trayvon Martin "Photos" From Stormfront : CJR
Journalists have REALLY dropped the ball on this issue. Citing Stormfront? Wtf?
Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.
It doesn’t run them to debunk them, mind you, but to back up its thesis that “The Media Is Getting the Trayvon Martin Story Wrong,” as it says in the title bar (the headline hedges it as “Why Lots Of People Think The Media Is Wrong About The Trayvon Martin Case.”
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Oh, hey—oops! Guess you shouldn’t have sourced material from neonazis on the Internets about an inflamed racial controversy.
A half hour or so after that correction, Business Insider removed one of the Stormfront-sourced pictures—of a black kid who doesn’t look like Martin flipping off the camera—but left up the Stormfront-sourced picture of a black kid with gold teeth who looks a bit more like Martin, but maybe not, actually.
Journalists have REALLY dropped the ball on this issue. Citing Stormfront? Wtf?