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"1 of every 13 African Americans of voting age is disenfranchised." And that's just how the GOP wants to keep it.
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While millions have been vexed for some time by their failure to explain basic information to dolts, that frustration has now reached a breaking point.
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With the release of the new tape on Friday, it’s clear cops were wrong when they said Ted Rall lied in the LA Times. Now the LAPD — and the Times — are the ones in the hot seat.
Here’s some key questions fellow aNewDomain writers Tom Ewing, Gina Smith and Nancy Imperiale raise about the incident:
1. Why didn't LA Times editor Nick Goldberg and reporter Paul Pringle, who was deputized to investigate Rall, bother to find out if the tape was authentic, or whether it would be possible to analyze it for further information?
[It took only three days for Rall to get the tape enhanced enough to prove his case. It wasn’t rocket science. He just took it to an audio engineer, which any journalist worth his salt would in fact do.]
2. Why would the LAPD go after Ted Rall?
[Because he exposed police wrongdoing? Repeatedly!?!]
3. Did the LAPD intentionally plot to go after Rall and get him fired at the Times?
4. Why did Goldberg, Pringle or other Times journalists fail to find a story in their own paper that contradicts the LAPD's story.
[Bizarrely, the LAPD claims the arresting officer had never, ever used handcuffs in his entire career? What has Officer Durr been doing for the bulk of his career at the LAPD — knitting?]
5. Why did the LAPD make such a silly exaggeration that its own records could have easily disproved?
6. Will the Department of Justice revive its long-running investigation into LAPD civil rights abuses as a result of the Rall scandal?
7. Why would the LAPD go to all of the trouble in finding a 14-year-old tape to bust a critical LA Times freelancer?
8. Did reps from the rich, powerful Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Fund, which indirectly owns a hunk of the Times’ parent company, Tribune Publishing Company, use their influence and put pressure on the Times?
9. Was LAPD’s release of the tape to the Times even legal?
[Police audio recordings aren’t public records. They have been judicially excluded from public records laws in California for more than a decade.]
10. Does the LAPD’s self-proclaimed media policy of “fostering cooperation and mutual respect” have a secret “or else” at the end?
11. Did someone doctor the tape?
[One of the producers involved in cleaning up the enhanced audio aNewDomain’s posted Friday told their reporters that he thought, but wasn’t sure, that he could detect up to five splicings on that tape. This has yet to be confirmed, and investigations are ongoing.]
12. If Rall was able to produce an enhanced version of the tape within a few days, why couldn’t the LAPD do it?
13. Why did the LA police union gloat about Rall's firing so much, so soon?
14. Did the LAPD pressure the Times to fire Rall based on the flimsy audio evidence alone? If not, what other complaints did it make to the Times that we don’t yet know about?
15. What happens next? Will the LA Times do what clearly needs to be done: Issue an apology to Rall and reinstate him?
Watch this space as we bring you further updates.
And read aNewDomain's excellent piece here: http://anewdomain.net/…/ted-rall-lapd-la-firing-scandal-ra…/
With the release of the new tape on Friday, it's clear cops were wrong when they said Ted Rall lied in the LA Times. Now the LAPD -- and the Times -- are the...
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With the release of the new tape on Friday, it’s clear cops were wrong when they said Ted Rall lied in the LA Times. Now the LAPD — and the Times — are the ones in the hot seat.
Here’s some key questions fellow aNewDomain writers Tom Ewing, Gina Smith and Nancy Imperiale raise about the incident:
1. Why didn't LA Times editor Nick Goldberg and reporter Paul Pringle, who was deputized to investigate Rall, bother to find out if the tape was authentic, or whether it would be po...
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With the release of the new tape on Friday, it's clear cops were wrong when they said Ted Rall lied in the LA Times. Now the LAPD -- and the Times -- are the...
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