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“Now if only the thousands of other spineless journalists who have corrupted the mainstream media would resign, perhaps we can bring some dignity back into the profession.”
“There have also been suggestions that Cobane has a history of violence against citizens, but I can’t find that link right now even though I remember somebody sending me something. So if you have something, please post it in the comments section.”

I’m all against police brutality but I also like good journalism. You speak of bringing dignity back to journalism yet in the same breath you decline to actually cite a source that you know someone sent you. You’re in dereliction of your journalistic duty the same way violent cops are in dereliction of theirs.

It’s not that I’m trying to hide anything. It’s just that I don’t have the time to search for that email now. I get a shitload of emails every day.

It was a story where the allegations of his previous history were discussed in the comments section.

I have to head out right now, so I can’t find it.

There’s no conspiracy theory here.

I had to play this twice, and crack the volume. Video is damning: racist threat of violence, clear kick to the head.

Clearly newsworthy. Definitely the right outcome for the news director at the Fox affiliate.

WTF is up with these “partnerships” with law enforcement, anyway? That’s not journalism.
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Carlos- I wasn’t proposing any “conspiracy theory”. I was just pointing out that your standards of journalism here clashed with your stated goal.
Anyway, perhaps that was a bit off the point of your post.

I gotta agree with Mark here…how can a news station with a “partnership” with law enforcement ever report critically on law enforcement? It’s the same sort of thing that happens on a larger scale in the White House newsroom, when reporters want a story so bad they let themselves be spoon fed the official slant on the story.
Good on the station that actually reported the news, and let’s hope that Justice appears soon in the lives of those officers.

The irony is that if they had aired the video right away in the middle of the broadcast after the latest national news on the gulf spill/washington politics/whatever, it would not have gotten near the amount of attention that has.

Needless to say, this guy will probably find a job doing public relations in government agency where he belongs. Clearly, a police offer brutalizing an American citizen, or even a non-citizen for that matter, is newsworthy. I hope that this news(speak) director’s decision will send a message to others in the mainstream media that spiking a newsworthy story will result in you walking the breadline.
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BTW, bravo to KIRO-TV for airing the segment, and standing up to FOX-Q13′s bullying attempts to get them to remove the segment from their Web site on dubious copyright claims. Also, a hat tip to Injustice Everywhere and PINAC for putting a whitehot spotlight on this matter.
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Now if we could just get Rick Sanchez to resign.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/05/f-bomb-protected-1st-amendment

In unrelated 1st Amendment news…

“That’s not journalism.”

There hasn’t been any “journalism,” at least mass media wise, since I have been alive (1977). Every “journalist” seems to have their own spin on every story. It seems more and more talk show hosts (radio, TV, whatever) want to wear the “commentator” hat, not the “journalist” hat.

I agree. He should be on Entertainment Tonight not CNN.

I believe the female officer that stomped the guy, was involved in this brutal police beating back on 2003 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...

I hope this guy goes to jail, but unfortunately like all other police brutality cases, the police live by different rules.