Don't judge a book just by a video clip

[LennG]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/central-park-confrontation-goes-viral-white-woman-calls-cop-on-black-birder/2431773/

Don't know if everyone was able to know about this. It happened maybe a year ago and was broadcast all over the news. This lady was crucified, lost her job now has a suit against her former company about it, and was basically driven into hiding, all because of a phone call and a clip-on someone's cell phone.

NOW, it has come to light that there is more to this story than the news media cared to share with the public.

https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/cathy-young-1.50331946

Seems the media saw a good chance to vilify someone without all the facts and SELECTIVELY chose to show a clip that really didn't tell the entire story.

As the article says, the lady who screamed wolf, wasn't maybe the nicest person in the world, but her reasons and actions were plain, once we see the entire story.

How many stories and video clips that we see about certain things do not tell the entire story, maybe what led up to the filmed incident. We see 15 seconds of a story that maybe takes 5 minutes to happen and we make conclusions from that.

Again, this still may not be a nice lady, but I hope she gets justice for things that were not all her fault.

[ozzie]

Unfortunately I couldn't see the Newsday article, a pop-up to subscribe blocked it.

[LennG]

Unfortunately I couldn't see the Newsday article, a pop-up to subscribe blocked it.

Lou

If you can, try to open anything like this with an 'in private; window. Doing that usually blocks these pop-ups.

[MightyGiants]

I read it and despite the best efforts by the article to SPIN the events the woman still comes off as a dishonest racist XXXXXXX who more than deserved the public scorn heaped on her.  The article couldn't deny (despite their best efforts) that the white woman deliberately weaponized the man's race against him.   

[LennG]

I read it and despite the best efforts by the article to SPIN the events the woman still comes off as a dishonest racist XXXXXXX who more than deserved the public scorn heaped on her.  The article couldn't deny (despite their best efforts) that the white woman deliberately weaponized the man's race against him.

Maybe you didn't read the entire article and did not try reading it with a one-sided opinion.

It didn't say she wasn't a racist, but it did tell us about circumstances that led up to her 'outburst' which no one has ever known before.

As I did say, she probably is some sort of racist, but it did explain why she repeated it so many times.

Anyway, the gist of this wasn't all about this particular incident, but many incidents in general where we form opinions based on seeing a blub of a video and not being privy to the entire incident. Sort of what many news outlets do tos way opinion.