Comments on: The Media & Another No-Cost Federal Killing http://jimbovard.com/blog/2005/12/15/the-media-another-no-cost-federal-killing/ Author James Bovard Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Faith Jacobs http://jimbovard.com/blog/2005/12/15/the-media-another-no-cost-federal-killing/#comment-5 Faith Jacobs Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:38:11 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2005/12/15/the-media-another-no-cost-federal-killing/#comment-5 What more can you expect from perky Ken and Barbie doll journalism? No bomb afterall? That was yesterday's story. What more can you expect from perky Ken and Barbie doll journalism? No bomb afterall? That was yesterday’s story.

]]> By: Patriot http://jimbovard.com/blog/2005/12/15/the-media-another-no-cost-federal-killing/#comment-3 Patriot Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:25:54 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2005/12/15/the-media-another-no-cost-federal-killing/#comment-3 James, I saw your article in Reason. Good job. I was listening to NPR's report hours after this incident, and I was infuriated by NPR's willingness to accept the government's word that Alpizar said he had a bomb as fact without any independent verification, when there's an obvious motive to lie. You easily could have included NPR reporter Eric Weiner's gullible reporting in your article. This is what Weiner said when recapping the events that lead to Alpizar's shooting on All Things Considered: "They were reboarding the flight, it was continuing to Orlando. That's when federal Air Marshalls confronted this man. He was acting suspiciously, <i>he claimed to have a bomb</i>, Federal Air Marshalls told him to get on the ground. He did not comply"[italics added]. Here's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5043017 " rel="nofollow">a link</a> to Weiner's NPR interview. I also added a section about Weiner's statements to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberto_Alpizar" rel="nofollow">Alpizar Wikipedia entry</a>. James, if you write another article about Alpizar's murder, could you please expose this Eric Weiner clown as the government shill that he is? James, I saw your article in Reason. Good job. I was listening to NPR’s report hours after this incident, and I was infuriated by NPR’s willingness to accept the government’s word that Alpizar said he had a bomb as fact without any independent verification, when there’s an obvious motive to lie. You easily could have included NPR reporter Eric Weiner’s gullible reporting in your article. This is what Weiner said when recapping the events that lead to Alpizar’s shooting on All Things Considered: “They were reboarding the flight, it was continuing to Orlando. That’s when federal Air Marshalls confronted this man. He was acting suspiciously, he claimed to have a bomb, Federal Air Marshalls told him to get on the ground. He did not comply”[italics added].

Here’s a link to Weiner’s NPR interview.

I also added a section about Weiner’s statements to the Alpizar Wikipedia entry.

James, if you write another article about Alpizar’s murder, could you please expose this Eric Weiner clown as the government shill that he is?

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