{"id":8596,"date":"2014-08-18T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:22:34","slug":"new_york_times_wrongly_credits_twitter_for_publicizing_ferguson_shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/18\/new_york_times_wrongly_credits_twitter_for_publicizing_ferguson_shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Wrongly Credits Twitter for Publicizing Ferguson Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Folks, if I might, I ran into something yesterday in the New York Times<\/a>. This is a little bit off the beaten path because it\u2019s media. Well, actually that doesn\u2019t make it off the beaten path. David Carr, writing for the New York Times, claimed that nobody knew about this story until Wednesday of last week and that this story didn\u2019t become a story until Twitter got hold of it. <\/p>\n

This story became a story because of a hashtag. That\u2019s all that happened here. If it weren\u2019t for Twitter, you wouldn\u2019t know about this. That is as bogus and irresponsible as I can think. We\u2019ve been talking about this since before last Wednesday. It\u2019s been all over the place since before last Wednesday. It happened last weekend. So I want to get into that, too, because the fact that…<\/p>\n

<\/a>Carr, by the way, writing for the New York Times, is not all that happy about that. It\u2019s not good. What is Twitter? Twitter is nothing more than a real-time newsfeed of citizens. Who needs the New York Times if you\u2019ve got Twitter that\u2019s making the news? If Twitter makes something a story — and what made it a story? The fact that people outside St. Louis finally found it about it. <\/p>\n

Twitter did that, not the New York Times, and that\u2019s not good for the New York Times. <\/p>\n

See, the New York Times and the Drive-Bys used to determine what you thought was news. They used to be determine what was news and what wasn\u2019t. Now Twitter\u2019s doing it, and they don\u2019t like it that. Who needs David Carr anymore if a bunch of citizens tweeting each other can make a story, can create a story before the New York Times issues its story on the matter? <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s another thing I gotta put over here, because that\u2019s an important aspect of this as well. It constitutes and illustrates a changing media… (sigh) What? Media graveyard, media…? To me, anyway, it\u2019s fascinating. And since it\u2019s fascinating to me, I have the ability to make it interesting to you, which I will. Now let\u2019s see, what was it? I don\u2019t know. It was the New Yorker magazine.<\/p>\n

Michael Brown “was eighteen years old, walking down a street in Ferguson, Missouri, from his apartment to his grandmother\u2019s, at 2:15 on a bright Saturday afternoon. He was, for a young man, exactly where he should be — among other things, days away from his first college classes.” That\u2019s how all of this began, not on Twitter, by the way. This all began in the New Yorker after the incident.<\/p>\n

That was picked up by all the Drive-Bys.<\/p>\n

That was picked up by AP, that was picked up by all the cable news, and that is how the country first learned who Michael Brown was: A gentle giant, minding his own business, walking down the street, just couldn\u2019t wait for college to begin, man! He was just days away from college classes ramping up. Oh, yeah! And then he encountered a white cop, who started firing even after the gentle giant put his hands up and surrendered! <\/p>\n

That was the story. <\/p>\n

Only it wasn\u2019t, because we later learned that he was not walking from his grandmother\u2019s, he wasn\u2019t where he should be, and he probably wasn\u2019t thinking with excitement about college classes beginning. He had just robbed a convenience store of a box of Swisher Sweets cigars, which is what you use to make marijuana joints out of, blunts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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