Tuesday, December 17, 2013

OMG, the Denver Post has lost (the liberal) Mediaite! The Ugly Mindset That Led Denver Post to Sanitize Arapahoe Shooter’s Political Beliefs

Children matter not.
It's the ideology.
It's the control.
It's the power!
The Ugly Mindset That Led Denver Post to Sanitize Arapahoe Shooter’s Political Beliefs | Mediaite
This was not an unsupported bit of reporting. The Associated Press backed up the Post’s findings. “Students said Pierson held communist views and liked to discuss current events and issues, offering his own solutions,” the AP reported. “None said Pierson was bullied for his beliefs.”
When confronted about the decision to stealthily cleanse the piece on this shooter’s politics, Denver Post senior editor Lee Ann Colacioppo revealed a particularly insidious mindset behind the decision: “We decided not to have another student apply a label to the shooter — a label the student likely didn’t even understand,” she wrote.
So, the shooter can have vivid and informed opinions on gun laws, on policy debates in Washington, and on arcane economic theories, but the term “socialist” is far too complex a notion for a high school student to grasp? 
If Colacioppo thought this admission would shed light on her perfectly defensible logic, she accomplished precisely the opposite effect.

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