April 14, 2009, - 11:48 am
10 Years Later, Real Story of Columbine Killers Shows How Much Media Got Wrong; Calls Columbine Killers “Terrorists” But Won’t Do the Same for Actual (Islamic) Terrorists
By Debbie Schlussel
It’s not like we didn’t know this before: the liberal-dominated mainstream media lies, fabricates, and just doesn’t do its homework. And it reports a lot of “news” that’s simply false.
And so it goes with the Columbine massacre that happened a decade ago. Today’s USA Today cover story (yeah, I know, a liberal mainstream media outlet) shows us how much was false. It’s more proof of the proverbial don’t-believe-what-you-read adage. And it shows how ridiculous the conventional wisdom and nanny state push for “anti-bullying” laws are. It was all based on the false media allegations that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were bullied, when in fact they were not.
They weren’t goths or loners.
The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver’s Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren’t in the “Trenchcoat Mafia,” disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn’t been bullied – in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and “fags.”
Their rampage put schools on alert for “enemies lists” made by troubled students, but the enemies on their list had graduated from Columbine a year earlier. Contrary to early reports, Harris and Klebold weren’t on antidepressant medication and didn’t target jocks, blacks or Christians, police now say, citing the killers’ journals and witness accounts. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI says now.
A decade after Harris and Klebold made Columbine a synonym for rage, new information – including several books that analyze the tragedy through diaries, e-mails, appointment books, videotape, police affidavits and interviews with witnesses, friends and survivors – indicate that much of what the public has been told about the shootings is wrong.
This is a great analysis and expose on how the media lies to us, but four words are missing. It should read:
[M]uch of what the public has been told by the mainstream media about the shooting is wrong.
Read the rest of the article. It’s very enlightening about how lazy reporters simply regurgitate rumors and hearsay and don’t do their homework. You know, the same lazy reporters who deride blogs and websites like this one that actually do their homework and break news the lazy reporters miss or deliberately omit and expose falsehoods they propagate.
One other point: The article goes on to say,
In fact, the pair’s suicidal attack was planned as a grand – if badly implemented – terrorist bombing that quickly devolved into a 49-minute shooting rampage when the bombs Harris built fizzled.
But, wait, we can’t call Klebold and Harris and their plot “terrorist,” according to the mainstream media’s stories for the last two weeks about how the Somalian Islamic terrorist “pirates” are not terrorists. After all, the New York Times and an annoying liberal commenter on this site say that terrorists are only terrorists if they are “linked to other terrorists” and “make an ideological demand.”
How dare USA Today call them terrorists?
I love, though, how the paper is ready, willing, and able to call this random pair at Columbine High “terrorists,” but it refuses, ad nauseam and ad absurdum, to call actual Islamic terrorist, including HAMAS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and the “Somalian pirates,” “terrorists.”
Regarding the media, Rush Limbaugh uses a phrase to describe how they operate. Rush says that a story must “fit the template.”
The media has a preconceived view (illusion) of the world. This template is their religious base. They evangelize and promote it all the time.
Every story must either; fit into the template, be transformed to fit within the template, or totally ignored (not reported).
Rick on April 14, 2009 at 12:53 pm