Saturday, April 20, 2013

It would be good

if the news media could get things right.


Two versions of one story. The first one I heard Thursday, quoting 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspect #1 who is now dead, "I have no American friends. I don't understand."

The second I heard Friday, and I saw the actual words . "I have no American friends. I don't understand them."

I'm assuming the second is correct. But who's to know? Anyway, the meaning changes considerably, don't you see.

Now, if this suspect #2, the 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, lives, and if Matt Lauer and his ilk don't mess it up with their self-proclaimed smarts and "I know the law and other stuff" talk all over the networks and the world, maybe there will be answers and a solid case and conviction. And I have had enough of talk from people who know him or knew him or thought they knew him.

I just heard that their father says he's coming to the United States and that his sons were framed, and he also said, "My kids didn't do nothing." He wants proof.

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