remains, and so even in the court system, though we have a different judge in ferguson, the court system is still vigorously prosecuting people who were arrested last year for instance for noise violations during the protest. these people are still being prosecuted today. people are still being arrested and ticketed in large numbers, and so the system itself still needs to be changed. stick with us alderman, don t go away. just before we sort of came on air you and i were chatting about new orleans, almost at the ten years since the tragedy that is hurricane katrina, and you know, i remember these markers when people would say it s one year later, what s changed? five years later, what s changed. ten years later, that s right, something happened and part of what i m wondering is whether or not even in our system of asking what has changed we re missing the point of what the ferguson story was. in some ways and 50 years
what is our responsibility as reporters? making sure boothth sides of the story are fairly presented. i think it drove a narrative that created part of the furor in ferguson that people who live there paid for dearly. there are also people who commented who were from ferguson who said they were driven from their homes and who watched the media only sbrir or tell part of the story. so i m not as interested in apologies as i am in lessons learned. what can we do going forward if something like this happens again. richard fowler, is it fair to say that many in the mediaed a vert tently pursued a false narrative? there are two sides to the story and one side was missing. and the reason has everything to do with the fact they didn t speak up. the police were pretty much mum when it came to talking about what really took place that night. does that let journalists off the hook? not at all.
talking about a firing squad for him. celebrating was short-lived. bergdahl did not want to see his parents and his fellow soldiers began to go public with their disgust. he knew what he was doing when he deserted. how did the media push back against this as a returning hero? great. in 24 hours they had platoon members talking how he was a deserter and what shocks me is how it was below the surface. if it was just below the surface all of the platoon leaders talking how did the white house miss this? highway did susan rice say he served honorably? how is that possible. it was so easy to find these people. washington post did a good major finding the story. white house aides considered hit swift boating but the journalisted reference to the campaign against john kerry journalists
a demonstration to the american people that his colleagues and people with him and we have a lot of deserters but to desert on the battle field is another issue l is another way to view this story from a media perspective that the white house we brought one of our soldiers home and i think it is a fact and if it was my chide no matter what the child had done, he put on the american uniform and went to fight for our country and he may have problems, maybe psychologically unstable but to bring our soldier home is a good move. you do bring your people hope. i don t have an argument with that. we are saying the media did its job and it is not . no one is asking for a standing ovation. the interesting footnote in january o reilly factor and nbc reported that the army decided to charge persian doll but they denied it and there was a
initially defended this story and then put out a statement that kind of blamed jackie and then took it back. so not exactly owning up to clearly we used to say the story was flawed. i think the story is just utterly blown up. and what i liked most about the reporting at the washington post was that s real reporting. they looked under every stone every corner and they really just tore that story apart. and by doing basic reporting. nothing here is rocket science. this is just going and doing your job. and why rolling stone feels that makes me question everything else that has ever been printed in that magazine. we don t want to interrupt the narrative, the narrative is more important that be the facts. p that s troubling because it underminds our credibility. this was a huge mistake and a long time and rolling stone still has not owned up to it. thanks very much for stopping by. after the break, hillary tees