The case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was a clear example of biased news reporting for the sake of sensationalism and higher ratings.  This page is a spin-off product from the Media Bias page and the page about specific examples of bias.

Overview:
Incompetence Wasn't the Problem in Broward County.  Seventeen-year-old Miami-Dade student Trayvon Martin got neither incarceration nor education.  Eleven days after this self-congratulatory press release, Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida, 250 miles from his Miami home.  For all the attention paid to the case, the media have refused to report why Martin was left to wander the streets of Sanford High and alone on a Sunday night during a school week.  Sundance, who lives in South Florida, broke this story through old-fashioned gumshoe reporting.  He writes, "Over time the policy [in Miami-Dade] began to create outcomes where illegal behavior by students was essentially unchecked by law enforcement."  Sundance was alerted to the problem during the investigation into Martin's death when six M-DSPD officers blew the whistle on their superiors, the most notable of them being Chief Hurley.  The whistleblowers told of cases of burglary and robbery where officers had to hide the recovered evidence in order to avoid writing up the students for criminal behavior.  "At first I didn't believe them," writes Sundance of the whistleblowers.  "However, after getting information from detectives, cross referencing police reports, and looking at the 'found merchandise' I realized they were telling the truth."  One of those incidents involved Martin.

From George Zimmerman to Kyle Rittenhouse:  A Decade of Woke Misrule.  Ten years ago this coming February, George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a rainy night in Sanford, Florida.  Without intending, Zimmerman triggered a dark new phase in the history of progressive America. [...] With the dawn of the social media era, however, the newly minted "progressives" made a conscious turn to the sinister.  No longer content to conceal the guilt of the guilty, they lied now to conceal the innocence of the innocent. [...] Had video captured the shooting of Martin, Zimmerman would not have been arrested. [...] In the absence of video evidence, Trayvon's parents and their attorney, Benjamin Crump, executed the most outrageous bit of judicial fraud in anyone's memory.  They manufactured a bogus story and a fully fake "ear witness" to tell her story both in depositions and at trial.  Without this witness — the mentally-challenged, plus-sized "girl friend," Rachel Jeantel — the State could not have arrested Zimmerman, and the Martins could not have sued the homeowners association.

The Rise of Jacobin Justice.  [Scroll down]  In February 2012, in Florida, a battleground state, the Jacobins put their revised strategy to the test, transforming a Hispanic, Obama-supporting civil rights activist into a murderous white supremacist.  A neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman shot and killed the deeply troubled young Trayvon Martin in self-defense.  Zimmerman aspired to be a police officer.  He never got the chance.  With a president to re-elect, the media flaunted their growing indifference to the truth.  In the seventeen months between Martin's death and Zimmerman's acquittal, they would violate all accepted journalistic standards in their effort to help Jacobin handyman Al Sharpton and his cronies convict a transparently innocent man.  This was a milestone, the first time in anyone's memory that the national media writ large conspired to enable so conspicuous an injustice.  With the help of social media, mobs, both real and virtual, descended on Florida to demand justice for Martin.  As Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert proved beyond doubt in The Trayvon Hoax, prosecutors used as their star witness a woman who was not a witness at all.  The media pretended not to notice the most flagrant corruption of the judicial process in their careers.  Fortunately for Zimmerman, the six women on his six-person jury paid no attention to the news.

Media Malpractice and the Murder of Andreas Probst.  Two weeks ago, I had breakfast with George Zimmerman — yes, that George Zimmerman, the Florida man whose life was ruined by a national media eager, as always, to highlight the killing of a black person by a white man.  Within a week or two of Trayvon Martin's death, the media had transformed the innocent, Hispanic, Obama-supporting civil rights activist Zimmerman into the poster child for white nationalism.  In my 2013 book, "If I Had a Son": Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman, I document all the editing tricks Big Media — NBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times — used to pull off this evil alchemy.  As a result, ten years after his acquittal, having narrowly survived one assassination attempt, Zimmerman continues to live a life in the shadows.

Why the Washington Post Cannot 'Correct' Its Trayvon Tribute.  On February 26, the Washington Post commemorated the ten-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death with a loving and outrageously dishonest video tribute to the fallen 17-year-old.  Even more troubling, columnist Charles Blow enlisted former president Barack Obama in this mendacious rewrite of recent history.  On Friday morning, March 4, I sent an email to "corrections."  I sent the same email to managing editor Sally Buzbee and several other relevant editors.

NY Times uses the same misleading edit of Zimmerman's 911 call that got two NBC journalists fired.  Over the weekend the NY Times published an opinion video about the 10th anniversary of Travon Martin's death.  The video features interviews with Henry Louis Gates, Al Sharpton and Barack Obama.  It starts off on a controversial note with Gates arguing that the modern Civil Rights movement really started after the "murder" of Martin.  There was of course a trial of George Zimmerman for murder back in 2013 and he was acquitted on grounds of self defense.  In any case, the video quickly shifts into telling the story of the shooting starting with the 911 call which Zimmerman placed that night.

NY Times Publishes Slanderous Video About the Death of Trayvon Martin.  On the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has published a video about this tragedy that slanders individuals, sows racial resentments, and impugns the people of the United States en masse.  In addition to employing a series of highly deceptive half-truths, the video edits a police recording to make it seem like Martin was murdered and that his killer got away with it because Martin was black.  The events underlying the video unfolded on a rainy night in Sanford, Florida in February 2012 when Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teen, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer named George Zimmerman.  Often labeled by the media as "white Hispanic," Zimmerman is half-white, half-Hispanic, and partially black.

Rittenhouse trial calls new attention to 'Trayvon Hoax'.  The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has called renewed attention to a parallel case, that of the Florida shooting in 2012 of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.  In 2019, L.A. filmmaker Joe Gilbert produced a stunningly researched documentary — and accompanying book — on the case titled, "The Trayvon Hoax:  Unmasking the Witness Fraud That Divided America."  In my own 2013 book, "If I Had A Son," I argued that the jury did the right thing in acquitting Zimmerman of all charges in July 2013, an acquittal that led to the creation of Black Lives Matter.  Gilbert took the case a giant step further.  He proved beyond any doubt that the State of Florida's star witness, Rachel Jeantel, did not witness anything, either in person or by phone.  Instead, the Martin family lawyer, the now rich and famous Benjamin Crump, managed to get the obese, mentally-challenged Jeantel to pose as Martin's girlfriend and the "ear witness" to the shooting.

Review: The Trayvon Hoax, Unmasking the Witness Fraud.  [Scroll down]  It is no small thing to substitute a fake witness in a murder trial for the real witness.  I give The Trayvon Hoax documentary five stars.  If you have been interested in the Trayvon Martin - George Zimmerman case, watch this documentary.  It reveals how much the nation has been played by those who benefit from racial strife.  Joel Gilbert deserves high praise for doing the work none of the power elite wanted done.  The two hours spent watching this documentary is two hours well spent.  [Video clip]

Yet Another Grand Jury Defies the Fake News Narrative.  The Fake News convinced many that George Zimmerman was a White supremacist who murdered a sweet, clean-cut teen boy, a darling with a hoodie in Florida.  NBC news doctored a recording that Zimmerman had phoned into the police, omitting key words to make his innocent and desperate call seem like a racist one.  But in the end, George Zimmerman was not charged with a crime for standing his ground when, as a Neighborhood Watch volunteer, he had acted in good faith and was in peril of getting pummeled to death himself by Trayvon Martin.  Zimmerman even turned out to be Hispanic.

Obama's Monster Has Escaped the Lab, Now What?  [Scroll down]  On March 23, 2012, Obama let the monster loose.  Four weeks earlier, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin.  For four weeks, the media constructed an aggressively false narrative about the shooting, perhaps best summed up by Miami congresswoman Frederica Wilson:  "Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog.  He was shot in the street.  He was racially profiled." For four weeks, Obama said nothing.  In the interim, any number of progressive black pundits zeroed in on Obama's Achilles' heel, his fear of seeming inauthentic.  Blogger Yvette Carnell's post hit the target.  "Obama is perfectly willing to give a sermon to black men on Father's Day about what they need to be doing," she commented, "but totally incapable of advocating for a black boy who was murdered in the street while carrying only Skittles and iced tea."  Finally, on that March morning, Obama said for the ages, "My main message is to the parents of Trayvon.  You know, if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."  In projecting Trayvon as a "son," Obama strongly suggested that all black children, even the president's imagined son, were equally vulnerable to the predations of white men.  Four weeks after the shooting, Obama had no excuse for not knowing the facts of the case.

The Trayvon Hoax: Are Young Blacks Weary of Being 'Played'?  As the YouTube comments revealed, several of the viewers grew up thinking of Trayvon Martin's death the way their grandparents thought of Emmett Till's, two innocent adolescents killed for the crime of being black.  They had no idea that Martin, a skilled street fighter a half-foot taller than Zimmerman, gratuitously attacked the neighborhood watch captain.  Nor did they know Zimmerman was an Hispanic civil rights activist and Obama supporter.  In 2019, Gilbert took up where Sundance left off and confirmed the Treepers' suspicion that the State of Florida's star witness, Rachel Jeantel, was an impostor.  In the film, Gilbert proves his case beyond doubt and even locates the real phone witness, an attractive young Haitian-American named Brittany Diamond Eugene.  The attorney who orchestrated this fraud, Gilbert makes clear, was none other than Benjamin Crump, the ringmaster of the George Floyd show and the subject of an upcoming Netflix documentary.  If enough young black viewers watch Gilbert's film and speak out, the Crump film will never air.

Zimmerman Prosecutors Deny the Undeniable As Lawsuit Proceeds.  [Scroll down]  It is understandable why other parties in the case would lie.  At least three of them have done it before under oath, and they have got a lot to lose. [...] The prosecutors and the others involved have to be sweating the response of Trayvon's actual girlfriend and real phone witness, Brittany Diamond Eugene.  The recent criminal justice graduate of Florida State University has changed lawyers twice already, but she has never lied under oath.  She has no compelling reason to start now.

George Zimmerman sues Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren for $265 million.  George Zimmerman wants a day in court against two of the leading Democratic presidential contenders, accusing them of defamation.  In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Florida, the man who killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense in 2012 accused Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of "maliciously defam[ing]" Mr. Zimmerman, using the killing "as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers."  Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on traditional self-defense grounds, because Martin attacked him and beat his head against the ground, supposedly for profiling the black teen while on a neighborhood-watch shift.

Hey, GOP! This is What Pushback Looks Like.  [Scroll down]  Others are pushing back too, perhaps taking inspiration from President Trump.  Here are two recent examples.  Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, director of The Trayvon Hoax is suing Coral Gables Art Cinema and the city of Coral Gables.  As the Miami Herald reported, "The suit says the cinema, at the urging of the Coral Gables mayor, had no right to cancel a rental of the theater for a private screening of Gilbert's documentary on the George Zimmerman trial after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin."  Not only did Gilbert expose the bogus Trayvon Martin story, he is pushing back against those continuing to perpetuate the hoax.  There is nothing like a $670,000 lawsuit as a punch in the nose to those bullies pushing censorship and suppression of the truth.

Did the Media Force a False Narrative on the Trayvon Martin Case?  There has been widespread reporting of the civil lawsuit for $100 million being brought by attorney Larry Klayman on behalf of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin almost eight years ago.  At the core of the lawsuit is the claim that the key witness against Zimmerman at his trial, Rachel Jeantel, was a fake witness pretending to be Diamond Eugene, the 16-year-old girl who was on the phone with Trayvon in the last minutes before his death.  The lawsuit, based on investigative reporting by documentary producer Joel Gilbert, targets Trayvon's parents, their lawyer Benjamin Crump, both Jeantel and the real Diamond Eugene, prosecution lawyers and the state of Florida, all of whom, according to the lawsuit, knew or should have known of the witness substitution.

Operation Mockingbird's Racial Destructive Lies.  To sell their irresponsible evil lie that whites routinely murder blacks, fake news media reported that Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a "white Hispanic."  The truth is, Martin jumped on top of Zimmerman and began beating his head into the ground.  Incredibly, NBC news went as far as to edit Zimmerman's 9/11 call to make him sound like a racist.  Fake news media mislead the public about Martin's age, promoting a photo of him as a cute little boy.  Martin was a 17-year-old thug.  George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting.  And yet, the Martin shooting continues to be used to sell the lie that innocent black children live in constant danger of being murdered by racist white men.  Zimmerman is fighting back with a $100 million lawsuit against Martin's family and the prosecutors.

George Zimmerman Sues Trayvon Martin's family and Florida prosecutors for $100 million, claiming they engineered false evidence in his homicide trial.  George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, is suing Martin's family and Florida prosecutors, claiming that they engineered false evidence in the homicide trial.  The lawsuit filed Wednesday [12/4/2019] in Polk County Circuit Court seeks $100 million in civil damages for defamation, abuse of civil process and conspiracy.  It alleges that the prosecution's key witness in Zimmerman's 2013 murder trial, Rachel Jeantel, was an imposter coached by the family and their lawyers.

The Trayvon Hoax Shines a Light on the 'Fake News' Industry.  Big media balks at the term "fake news," insisting that they honestly and accurately report the news of the day.  Those paying attention to the news can cite numerous examples of fake news, either deliberate misinformation or laziness on the part of reporters.  Joel Gilbert, in his book and film of the same name, The Trayvon Hoax:  Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America, describes one of the biggest examples of "fake news" in modern times: that the prosecution's key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman was in imposter.  Joel demonstrated a long-lost art, investigative journalism, and he did it in a fun, entertaining, and easily readable manner.

Will the Miami Herald Step Up and Save Mainstream Journalism?  As intended, my October 23 article, "Why Did the Miami Herald Abandon Journalism," caught the attention of the editors of that venerable newspaper.  Now that I have their attention, I would like them to address a question that only they have the clout and resources to answer:  did the Florida state attorneys know that their star witness in the 2013 trial of George Zimmerman was an imposter?  If the editors answer this question, they could win a Pulitzer. [...] Here is the immediate news hook:  the one adult who provably knew about the witness switch is now running for Miami-Dade county commissioner with the open support of Hillary Clinton.  Her name is Sybrina Fulton, the biological mother of Trayvon Martin.

An Interview with The Trayvon Hoax Director Joel Gilbert.  The Zimmerman trial literally divided America.  Prior to the trial in 2013, both blacks and whites rated race relations as positive.  These numbers have been negative ever since.  The trial spawned Black Lives Matter and subsequently the Ferguson Effect, a crime disaster for black neighborhoods with homicides up 33 percent nationwide.  Also, the modern era of fake news and race hoaxes took wing with this case. [...] The Trayvon Hoax is two things.  It's the story of how a real phone witness to Trayvon Martin's final minutes was switched for a fake witness.  The Trayvon Hoax is also the name I give to the hoax the media play on black Americans every day:  that blacks should vote Democrat to protect themselves from a racist America where whites want to harm them because of their skin color.

The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down.  With a mediocre economy, growing questions about the efficacy of Obamacare, and a lethargic base waking up from a hope hangover to find that the president had left them hanging on the change part, the media knew that President Obama couldn't win on his record.  The media would need a controversy to galvanize the base and shame moderates into reelecting President Obama.  And so, when an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a man claiming self-defense, the media pounced.  They routinely used a years-old photo of Martin as a smiling young child.  Zimmerman was depicted with a mugshot.  The message was clear:  Martin was just a young child wearing a hoodie and eating Skittles while Zimmerman was a deranged menace.

Filmmaker Joel Gilbert Set To Reveal The Hoax Behind Rachel Jeantel (Witness #8).  Anyone who paid attention to the details in the George Zimmerman case knew Florida state prosecutors knowingly, and with malicious intent, falsified witness testimony from Witness #8 Rachel Jeantel; who they claimed was Trayvon Martin's girlfriend.  Back in November 2012 CTH first emphasized how Trayvon Martin's family created a completely false narrative about Trayvon's 16-year-old girlfriend "Dee Dee".

The Trayvon Hoax:  Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.  After a painstaking investigation into the Trayvon Martin shooting, I have produced a film and written a companion book, both called The Trayvon Hoax:  Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.  Only after I started the project did I realize I had stumbled onto the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history. [...] After speaking with Benjamin Crump, for any number of good reasons, Diamond Eugene refused to "follow the script."  She refused to speak with the state prosecutors or bear false witness against George Zimmerman under oath.  Instead, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel was substituted for Diamond, and Jeantel became the key witness in the murder trial of George Zimmerman.  Jeantel was a fraud.  She was not the "phone witness" speaking to Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he was shot.  She barely knew him.  This witness fraud resulted in the seminal race hoax of the Obama years.

The Trayvon Hoax That Divided America Is About to Be Exposed.  On Monday,  September 16, Joel Gilbert will preview his new documentary, "The Trayvon Hoax," in the 500-seat Ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  The screening begins at 1 p.m.  Admission is free, and Gilbert is encouraging all interested parties to come see for themselves what could be a game-changer in the way the media report racially-charged news.  Gilbert's findings are that significant.  Having written a book on the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin — If I Had a Son — I have been following Gilbert's progress with interest. [...] If I were Trayvon Martin's parents or his family's attorneys, I would be very nervous right now.  If I were Florida state attorneys who prosecuted the case, I would be more nervous still.  And if I were the media who covered this case — are you listening Matt Gutman and Lisa Bloom? — I would prepare to be mortified.  The coverage of this case was a disgrace from day one.  To uncover this staggering fraud, Gilbert did what reporters used to do. [...]

Patrisse Cullors:  Nearly Six Years Ago Trayvon Martin Was Murdered 'In Cold Blood'.  Patrisse Cullors is one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, a movement which began after unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman nearly six years ago.  Today, NBC News has published a piece by Cullors which repeats some false claims about Martin's death, foremost among them that he was murdered in "cold blood."

Florida university to award Trayvon Martin a posthumous honorary degree.  At its commencement ceremony on May 13, Florida Memorial University will present a posthumous honorary degree to Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by George Zimmerman five years ago.  The private university announced Wednesday [5/3/2017] that Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical science with a concentration in flight education on behalf of their son.

Travyon Martin will receive posthumous degree in Florida.  A university will award Trayvon Martin a posthumous Bachelor of Science Degree in aviation five years after the black teenager was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in central Florida.

Driver who shot at George Zimmerman's vehicle convicted of attempted murder.  Jurors also found Matthew Apperson, 37, guilty of shooting into a vehicle and aggravated assault with a firearm, local news organizations reported.

12 Fake News Stories from the Mainstream Media.  [For example,] George Zimmerman's edited 911 call:  The media was very interested in keeping the George Zimmerman — Trayvon Martin story hot, fresh, and outrageous, eagerly stirring a bubbling pot of racial paranoia for political and ratings reasons.  A great deal of the early reporting about the Trayvon Martin shooting could be classified as "fake news."  Who can forget the widely circulated images of Martin as a baby-faced child, even though reporters knew that wasn't what he looked like at the time of his death?  The nadir of fake news in the Zimmerman-Martin story was reached when NBC News deliberately, maliciously edited a recording of the call Zimmerman placed to 911 on the night of the February 2012 shooting, to make it sound as if Zimmerman was obsessed with Martin's race.  NBC reporters even tried to convince viewers Zimmerman used a racial epthet.

Lies have consequences.  Trayvon Martin wasn't some innocent little lamb minding his own business who was shot dead for no other reason than he was black.  But you guys in the Enslaved Press peddled those lies nonetheless.  You even went so far as to call the shooter a "White Hispanic" in order to perpetrate the fiction that whites were indiscriminately shooting black "children" for no reason.  NBC, your own network, doctored the 911 tape to make it sound like George Zimmerman called the police because Martin was black.  You idiots in the Enslaved Press used an old photograph of Trayvon Martin from when he was a little boy, rather than a more current photo of him to further push the lie.  From the White House, Barack Obama continued to push the false narrative that Trayvon Martin was an innocent victim of "gun violence" killed only because of the color of his skin.

Zimmerman Case Aftermath Continues.  How much does it cost taxpayers to prosecute the transparently innocent?  Tens of millions.  How much does it cost after the predictable trial loss to defend against the unethical conduct within the case?  You are about to find out.

George Zimmerman: Obama Stinks.  It was bad enough that George Zimmerman was attacked, his head beaten into the pavement by a man who was bigger than him, which forced him to kill his attacker to defend his own life.  Then he became the target of an unending propaganda campaign by a race-obsessed media, aided and abetted by the President of the United States himself.  But Zimmerman's not taking this one lying down.

Never Before Outlined Details Of False Racially Constructed Case Against George Zimmerman.  [Scroll down]  Part of that prior outline highlighted three law enforcement officials who were trying to get George Zimmerman arrested despite the investigative evidence that showed Zimmerman was acting in self defense.  Those people Serino cited were Sargent Arthur Barnes and officers Rebecca Villalona and Trekelle Perkins.  However, previously unknown was how racially motivated their efforts were. [...] Sgt. Barnes and officer Perkins are black; Villalona is married to an African-American man.  All three "Law Enforcement Officers" were working behind the scenes, on behalf of the black Sanford community, the Black Grievance Industry and the local NAACP, to insure that Zimmerman was arrested.  Sgt. Barnes was in frequent and continuous contact with Trayvon Martin's father, Tracy Martin, giving him information about what was going on.  In turn, Tracy would then relay this information to attorney's Benjamin Crump, Daryl Parks and Natalie Jackson.

President Obama Honors Third Anniversary Of Notorious Burglar, Thief and Knock-Out Participant's Death.  [Scroll down]  It was that M-DSPD internal affairs investigation which revealed in October 2011 Trayvon Martin was searched by School Resource Officer, Darryl Dunn.  The search of Trayvon Martin's backpack turned up at least 12 pcs of ladies jewelry, and a man's watch, in addition to a flat head screwdriver described as "a burglary tool".  When Trayvon was questioned about who owned the jewelry and where it came from, he claimed he was just holding it for a "friend".  A "friend" he would not name.

The Liberal Circus.  [Scroll down]  The Trayvon Martin controversy descends from the purportedly preteen of released photos who was shot down in cold blood by a white vigilante into doctored NBC tapes, airbrushed photos, the New York Times' invented rubric "white Hispanic," the president weighing in on Trayvon's shared racial appearance, girlfriend Rachel Jeantel's explanation of Trayvon's violence as a sort of homophobic act of [violence] [...]

ABC (above) says the announcement was made on the 24th.  CBS says it was Monday the 23rd.
No federal civil rights charges expected in Trayvon Martin case.  Three years after teen Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., setting off a national debate on race and gun laws, the Department of Justice announced Monday [2/23/2015] it had concluded that there is not enough evidence to bring civil rights charges in the case.  Attorney General Eric Holder called the case "a devastating tragedy," in a press release.

Justice Dept. Won't Charge George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin Killing.  The Justice Department on Tuesday [2/24/2015] closed its investigation into the shooting death three years ago of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager in a hoodie who became a symbol of racial profiling and expansive self-defense laws, without filing hate-crime charges against the gunman George Zimmerman.

Overview of the Zimmerman case:  When you are constructing a ruse — based on faulty and imperfect details — control becomes the primary factor.  Everything must be controlled.  In 2012 anything not specifically controlled by those who are shaping events is considered a "risk".  That "risk" is why a Grand Jury was never used in the Zimmerman case.  The facts and the grand jury were a risk because they specifically ran counter to the claims being advanced.  That's also why you never saw the results of the FBI investigation into the Zimmerman case — because that investigation showed there was ZERO substance to the claims being made.  It would be entirely possible to write a book on all of the legal and political maneuvers made in 2012, 2013 just to avoid the facts of the Zimmerman case reaching sunlight.

Trayvon 2.0 Redux — Comparing Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin Similarities.  While the two shooting events are separated by two and a half years, Trayvon (Feb 2012) Mike Brown (Aug 2014) the similarities are quite remarkable.  One of the key aspects that aligns both narratives is the appearance of the attorney for both families Benjamin Crump.  The second key aspect is the way the media portray both events.

Progressives and Blacks.  Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens.  After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said:  "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated.  She's a smart cookie."  That's a remarkable conclusion.  Here's a 19-year-old young lady, still in high school, who cannot read cursive and appears to be barely literate.  Morgan may have meant Jeantel is smart — for a black person.

Now The Brutal Bias From The Orlando Sentinel In The Zimmerman Case Makes Sense.  [Scroll down]  At the time I was directed to contact Rene Stutzman by author Jack Cashill who was privy to the back story we were discovering.  It was around the time we discovered Trayvon Martin had been expelled — not suspended — from Krop Senior High School, which came as a consequence of having his police engagements diverted to alternate discipline methods.  The trail of provable evidence from inside the Miami-Dade School Police Department was not a matter of opinion, it was fact.

ABC Still Corrupting Zimmerman case.  In a perverse bit of post-trial agitprop, ABC News somehow recruited the one woman of color on George Zimmerman's "all white" jury and twisted her words to reflect the presumed editorial position of ABC News.

Did Zimmerman juror really apologize for verdict or was interview deceptively edited?  [Scroll down]  The Department of Justice seized the gun used during his fight with Tayvon Martin, despite the "not guilty" verdict.  Many citizens felt that act violated Zimmerman's civil rights.

MSNBC Is Now Rev. Al Sharpton's Personal Fiefdom.  It was just another day at the office when Sharpton held a rabble-rousing rally for Trayvon Martin in the afternoon and then covered it on his show hours later.  But Saturday's rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial celebrating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington was the most dramatic conflict of interest yet.  Sharpton organized the rally (with Martin Luther King III), and MSNBC aired huge chunks of it live, including all 20 minutes of Sharpton's screaming keynote speech.

ABC News Accused of Dishonestly Editing Zimmerman Juror to Take 'Got Away With Murder' Out of Context.  According to all reports, Juror B29, the sole nonwhite juror on the George Zimmerman trial, said the neighborhood watch volunteer got away with murder.  But Slate's William Saletan says not so fast, and accused the network on Friday of deceptive editing and manipulation to get the answers they wanted.  According to Saletan, the juror — identified only by her first name, Maddy — has "been framed as the woman who was bullied out of voting to convict Zimmerman."  But, he said, that's simply not true.  Saletan said she stands by the not guilty verdict.

WaPo Buries Lede On Zimmerman Juror: She Called Trial A 'Publicity Stunt'.  The headline of the July 25 piece blares what the left-wing commentators have been screaming for days:  "Zimmerman got away with murder."  It's juicy.  It's eye-catching, but it paints a two-dimensional portrait of how the juror, who calls herself Maddy, feels about the case.  In fact, Maddy, a mother of eight of Puerto Rican heritage — bursting once and for all the "all-white jury" meme in the liberal media — said in a televised interview that she thought the trial was a "publicity stunt," and probably shouldn't have been convened the first place.

The Media Fail to Start a Race War.  You have to wonder:  Do the mainstream media really want blacks in this country to riot because a jury of his peers found George Zimmerman "not guilty" of the charges against him?  That's certainly the impression I get from the coverage of the trial and its aftermath.

Channeling King Henry II.  A properly instructed jury found Zimmerman not guilty of the charges he faced.  National headlines should have ended at this point. [... But] Cable news channels continue to play and replay events from the trial.  Some have gone to great lengths to portray the 17-year old Martin as angelic and above reproach.

How TV news failed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and American people.  In the charade that became the trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, and in the continuing aftermath of the verdict, there was one thing the American people didn't get from much of the national broadcast media:  fairness.  In the hours of continuous coverage that I monitored and recorded, I couldn't believe the lack of balance in coverage.

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I wonder how the writer "couldn't believe the lack of balance" since the imbalance has been especially blatant over the last 20 years.

Defending American Principles Is Now a Revolutionary Act.  The [George Zimmerman] case was a joke, but you wouldn't know that if you only listened to the mainstream media.  The media's rank speculation, mischaracterization of the evidence and outright lies were designed to replace the strict adherence to law and the rules of evidence that for a thousand years have protected the accused from the mindless fury of the mob.

The Rev. Sharpton's already flagging posse.  Instead of inspiring more hatred, Rachel inspired pity.  Rather than the handful of viewers who watch CNN thinking of her as an ignorant bigot, a flaming liar, or worse, folk saw her for what she really was — CNN exploited.

Legal Experts: Zimmerman Suit Could Cost NBC 'Millions'.  If you look at this timeline that lists the objectively terrible media behavior in the early days of the Zimmerman case last year, you will see how crucial NBC's fraudulent editing of a 911 call was in setting a media and political narrative that falsely claimed George Zimmerman is racist.

Zimmerman lawyer to move 'asap' against NBC News.  Last night's not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial will enable the neighborhood-watch volunteer to resume his case against NBC News for the mis-editing of his widely distributed call to police.  Back in December, Zimmerman sued NBC Universal Media for defamation over the botched editing, which depicted him as a hardened racial profiler.

More lies from the main stream media about the Zimmerman case.  The claim that Zimmerman was at fault because he pursued Martin after being told not to has absolutely no basis in fact.  It is a made up assumption that has been repeated so many times by the media that people actually believe that is what happened.  The 911 call that was placed by Zimmerman is on the web in both audio and written transcript form.  It was played numerous times at the trial.  There is no excuse for continuing to lie about the evidence.  The Chicago Tribune should know better than to continue to perpetuate lies that have fueled so much anger over this case.

The Spectacle of Al Sharpton.  MSNBC's reaction to the Zimmerman verdict was an editorial vomit.  The network chose Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry to be among its commentators.  Both predictably injected race into the discussion.  It's the only card in either one's deck.  Al Sharpton's presence as a commentator is particularly galling.  Sharpton operates as part shakedown artist, part con man, and part Hizballah-lite through his National Action Network.  He was no bystander in the Martin case.  He was among the first to turn the tragedy into a phony referendum on race relations.

Media's High-Tech Lynching Of George Zimmerman.
  •   ABC News originally claiming Zimmerman had no visible signs of injury based on a fuzzy video that later, when enhanced, clearly showed wounds to his head.
  •   CNN isolating part of a 911 call and speculating Zimmerman could be heard in the background calling Martin a racial slur, when in fact he did no such thing.
  •   Networks broadcasting photos of Martin as a pre-teen, ignoring the social-media photos of the 17-year-old smoking, shooting the middle finger and glowering at the camera with gold teeth.
Major media also ignored Martin's criminal history.  At the time of the shooting, he was visiting Zimmerman's townhouse complex in Sanford, Fla., from Miami, where he'd been suspended from school after officials found burglary tools and allegedly stolen jewelry in his backpack.  Previously, police had detained him for pot, firearms and defacing school property.  He'd also allegedly been involved in various assaults.

Jack Cashill's If I Had a Son.  The definitive account of the conspiracy to send George Zimmerman to prison for the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin is reaching bookstores today.  Jack Cashill's If I had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman is a must-read for anyone interested in race, justice and the corruption of the American mass media. [...] There are villains aplenty, and Cashill not only names names, he documents and explains the outrages that were perpetrated on a gullible public.

Zimmerman case hurt media's image.  A Pew Research poll this month revealed that less than a third of Americans believe journalists contribute "a lot" to societal well-being.  That's more in a continuing stream of bad news for the media.  Unfortunately, the press has done little to improve that image with its coverage of Trayvon Martin's death.  Instead, reporters took a tragic situation and sensationalized it [...]

Were Trayvon Martin or George Zimmerman connected to al Qaeda?  Why is anybody in the media focusing on such absolute nonsense?  From Jody Arias to the Martin-Zimmerman trial, the American media has focused on complete and utter drivel while world financial systems are collapsing and Middle Eastern governments are exploding into flames.  Media scavengers may desperately need ratings, but that does not excuse the American people from investing their energy in two men who should not be known to anybody outside of their immediate families.

Al Sharpton: 'Some People Exploiting Differences Between Us for Their Own Advantage'.  Reverend Al Sharpton, known for racially divisive rhetoric as an activist, political candidate, and talk show host, accused conservatives Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly — who he termed "the unholy triumvirate of right-wing reaction" — of "exploiting differences between us for their own advantage" following the George Zimmerman verdict.

        "Accuse others of what you do."

- Karl Marx            

This is an original compilation, Copyright 2013 by Andrew K. Dart