and if we re going to talk about ferguson and st. louis county, you miss the underlying story. you have 90 municipalities some a small county. and will isl s there is bad governance. a lot of journalists talked about the back story. it could have been joe lewis for that matter. could have been anybody. let me go back to joe. after the iraq war, there was a lot of breast beating and editors thoets editors notes about the way in which the press could have been aggressive in challenging the bush administration. and i m seeing very little of that now. i think because a republican was probably in office and to say that president bush was wrong that is easy to sell particularly when his poll numbers were going down 2005, wow 6 2006 once it revealed weapons of mass destruction probably didn t resist. and finally, with opinion journalism you can just say i
there are a couple of things, we saw people on msnbc, he only has a couple of years experience in the senate. hole low hello? what do you think of chris matthews going off and this is not the first time on the joe mccartney-like figure. this is come tear and not straight news. sure. but fair. is it fair? it is not fair it is easy to demonize him. what is fair, he demonizes him by calling him joe mccartney but he does represent the split in party. he is part of the activist wing of the party and there is a strong part of the party now that wants to prove they can govern and he rubs them the wrong way and that is fair game for coverage. it is a true that a lot of the g.o.p. colleagues do not like him and it is not a smear but the whole thing a couple of weeks ago he frightens the three year old because he gave a speech of the world being on
wilson acted properly in self self-defense self-defense, why aren t more news organizes examining where they wrept wrong or even apologizing? joining us, mike concha and susan ferrechio and richard fowler. joe, other than the washington post and a couple others, i haven t seen many journal i.s and news organizations openly grappling with the role that they played in perpetuateing a false narrative. nor have i. and he was under no duress and he went full washington post and he s now being called a race traitor for doing so. but there are real victims here as far as ferguson s concern and those are ferguson residents themselves. if you look at a report by fusion, the abc univision joint