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insomniasexx  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ferguson: summary of last night by twitter screenshots

Reading that headline, I could've sworn Hubski was broken and this was a super old post. Jeez. I thought we were done with this, Ferguson.





user-inactivated  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The media is done with it. All new information is essentially coming out of one guy's twitter account -- the one JackTheBandit mentioned. Such a strange situation.

cgod  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lots of Ferguson stuff still coming out from many different sources on Twitter. I'd say that my Twitter is still often 50% furgeson or STL content.

rjw  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's one of the fucked up things about the media - any sort of protest or social issue gets about a week or two of attention then it's on to the next thing (unless the paper itself has adopted it as a cause célèbre - some UK papers are still writing stories about Madeleine McCann, the Daily Express has been on a 'crusade' against inheritance tax since before I can remember, etc). People assume that if it's not being reported on, then it probably all finished and everything went back to normal. That's often not the case.

galen  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

See also: Occupy

Bloomberg promised not to kick them out of Zucotti and then did exactly that. And no one covered it b/c Occupy's 15 minutes were up.

rjw  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah - if you time everything just about right you can make it as if it never happened. He who controls the past...

galen  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Orwell sounds more prophetic every day.

JackTheBandit  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Done? What did you expect it to just get swept under the rug like everything else? You must not be paying attention to what's been happening, let me help you:

Shaun King has been doing an amazing job organizing information we've known to occur regularly. Trend of law enforcement fabricating incidents around the murder of civilians: https://storify.com/laurahib/shaun-king-1?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaign=&utm_content=storify-pingback&awesm=sfy.co_phMW

Prevailing trends of corruption in the STL area https://storify.com/laurahib/shaun-king

Evidence of STL law enforcement already crafting lies https://storify.com/VeryWhiteGuy/shaunking-exposes-ferguson-pd-lie-about-distance-f

cgod  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Grand jury has until january to return a decision, get ready for a long wait.

user-inactivated  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's gonna be a warm January