(August 28, 2013 at 4:13 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: The problem is that our media is all too eager to jump on an incident and report it as racism without getting the full story or even caring if what they're reporting is an actual racial incident or not. The simple fact is that racism sells, and the more people you can get riled up by a story the more people will be reading about it.
It could also be that the media knows when a poorly-reported story can generate a lot of interest. The most potentially-damning bit of evidence in the original story (that the restaurant offered apologies and a free meal) is attributed to one of the group that was asked to leave, and apparently wasn't verified by whoever was reporting on the story. And the rebuttal is from an anonymous person who claims to be an employee of the restaurant, which is also apparently unverified.
It's impressive to see such a massive shit storm created with so little shit.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
