The people signing a petition against him are unhappy with several incidents, including:
....he insisted that his colleagues Wolf Blitzer and legal analyst Sunny Hostin withhold deciding whether South Carolina "resource officer" Ben Fields used excessive force when removing a student from a classroom earlier this week. (N.Y. Daily News Story)
...which I think may be the most bizarre complaint about a journalist I've heard. He wanted his colleagues to wait for all of the facts to come in before taking sides in a controversy...and that's why they want him fired??? Is it the fact that Lemon is black and the officer he's with-holding judgement on is white that has people confused? Did no not rush to judgement fast enough?
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TIME is out with the stunning news that TV ads work.
"...fast food commercials featuring toy giveaways led children to ask their parents to take them to the restaurants."
Does TIME think they give the toys away to reduce sales?
The magazine story reports on research in the Journal of Pediatrics. I may have to mail back the calculator some magazine sent me as a premium to get me to subscribe.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a longtime feature of www.timlennox.com]
It was pretty clear from the various videos, that the officer used excessive force. Not to excuse the kid's insolence, but there are other ways to handle such a situation.
ReplyDeleteInstead of tossing the girl around, he could have demanded that she get up, handcuffed her if necessary, and marched her off. No violence.
When I was a kid (lo, these many years ago) I never liked those one-piece desk/chairs. I felt that they were--and still are--inherently unsafe.
Plus, how would you hide under such a contraption during an air-raid drill?
Jay,
ReplyDeleteSome teachers I've spoken to disagree...if the student is refusing to move, using force may be the only solution. But my disagreement is over the early decisions by Wolf and Co.
Tim
Using force may be necessary, but not that kind of brutal force.
ReplyDeleteTossing a kid still stuck in the desk/chair contraption could have caused some severe injuries. From what I saw, the officer didn't give much of a reasonable amount of time to comply. He seemed to act out of anger.
As I said, my disagreement here is with the journalists judging the situation instead of reporting the situation (-:
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