Oh Jeff, it's not ignorance. I just have a different prospective on the story. When u don't live in the fishbowl, you have the luxury of listening to all the facts without the emotional passion surrounding the trial.
You guys are correct. The media does play a roll in events such as this. The only problem is its both the liberal and conservative media are equally to blame. Gorillas post is a prime example. You take a tragedy such as this, and your bound to find someone who will twist the facts to fit their own agenda. Both the liberal and conservative media base use are own inherent fear of each other to promote their propaganda. It's us against them. It's white against black, it's poor and well to do.. It's culture against culture. It's our fear of change and the unknown...
What's lost in the circus is that a young man lost his life, needlessly. Do I blame Zimmermen? No, he was doing what he thought was the right thing to do. The problem is we have a society were we need people like Zimmermen taking things into their own hands.
It's our society that's one display here, and we are failing miserably.