On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:35 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> All analogies are imperfect, I grant you, but it is far from false. For >>> instance, you don't need to search far to find people who claim to have >>> witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya, or to view the "authentic" Kenyan birth >>> certificate on the internet. And I want to emphasize that I'm not >>> attempting to defend a potential rapist; I'm merely pointing out that >>> people saying somebody did something isn't actually evidence they did >>> something, and without any research on the part of a reporter to verify the >>> claims, it is wrong to confront someone with accusations that have not been >>> vetted. Simon wasn't being a journalist when he asked the question; he was >>> being TMZ. >>> >> > But - we are not talking about internet claims that Cosby raped some > women. We are talking about real women, who we know had real relationships > with Cosby, who made formal, sworn statements during a legal proceeding. > Again, that is not enough to convict him of a crime, and I reject the > claims of some who are now referring to Cosby as a serial rapist, but the > record is far more substantial than simply internet gossip. >
The way our minds work is that we take facts or pieces of information we learn and form them into narratives. And from observing the discussion here, what we have is a clash of narratives rather than a clash of facts. The reason I bring this up is that we see the Cosby case as a continuation of similar narratives whether the facts fit or not. Onr recent story which shows some insight to me is the Jerry Sandusky story from Penn State. In most ways the stories are different - Sandusky happened within State College, PA while Cosby was all over the place, the trigger for the Sandusky story going public was a state prosecutor's report saying that victims' allegations, while also were more than a decade old, merited a court's attention which hasn't happened to Cosby, and the public idol taken down was Joe Paterno, not the accused. But the thing about the Sandusky story that resonates is that once the story was out and proven many sports journalists in western PA who covered Penn State over the years said that it was common knowledge about Sandusky but nobody could publish anything because it was all gossip until the prosecutor's report. I don't know if charges will be brought against Cosby. Because Sandusky assaulted children there was no statute of limitations. But if the victims' stories are substantiated, there will be no end of entertainment journalists (or maybe "journalists") who will claim that they knew for years about Cosby. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
