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Posted by AL STOCK (Member # 1852) on :
 
"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you kn
ow the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.


CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.


You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/morgan-freeman-on-adam-lanza

Very well said Mr. Freeman
 

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Posted by ECOboostin (Member # 4347) on :
 
I loves his opinion on race. That guy is the MAN!
 

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Posted by Camara90 (Member # 134) on :
 
Very true, I was just telling my boy this the other day. Its a sad world we live in, I have 3 kids around the same ages and this shit brought tears to my eyes thinking about my kids.
 

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Posted by a302juGRnot (Member # 10163) on :
 
Very good point. I can't imagine any other logical motive besides mental illness how someone would want to kill 20 random children at once.
 

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Posted by East Bay 50 (Member # 8081) on :
 
Morgan freeman didn't say rhat shit..
 

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Posted by 5Porn0 (Member # 6001) on :
 
He should be president
 

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Posted by warhorse58gt (Member # 7702) on :
 
He didn't say that! http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121216/FEAT/121216011/Morgan-Freeman-hoax-actor-denies-statement-about-Newtown-shooting-spokesman-says

[ December 17, 2012, 02:04 AM: Message edited by: warhorse58gt ]
 

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Posted by Luke87GT (Member # 21) on :
 
There's a lot of truth to those comments.

Our media has enormous power that is often misused unfortunately. But to their defense, we as a society have some sick obsession with villains.

[ December 17, 2012, 11:24 AM: Message edited by: Luke87GT ]
 

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Posted by Wildfire532FB (Member # 1482) on :
 
Morgan Freeman is such a badass, he always plays good roles in movies and likes astronomy, hella smart and doesn't have his head up his ass like most actors.
 

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Posted by twisted54 (Member # 1981) on :
 
Hicks: Morgan Freeman quote not from Morgan Freeman
By Tony Hicks Contra Costa Times
Posted: 12/17/2012 10:17:03 AM PST
Updated: 12/17/2012 10:17:03 AM PST

Morgan Freeman didn't say it.

A quote attributed to Freeman criticizing the media for its coverage of Friday's mass shootings in Connecticut went viral on the Internet over the weekend.

"Morgan neither made statements nor posted those statements. We are trying to find out who did, but they did not originate from him," the actor's rep told E! News.

This is terrible. If you can't have faith in things randomly posted on the Internet, what's left?

The remark supposedly went like this: "You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why. It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody."

The post continued to scold the media and said people should donate to mental health research "instead of pointing to gun control as the problem."

Contact Tony Hicks at thicks@bayareanewsgroup.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks.
 

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Posted by East Bay 50 (Member # 8081) on :
 

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Originally posted by warhorse58gt:
He didn't say that! http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121216/FEAT/121216011/Morgan-Freeman-hoax-actor-denies-statement-about-Newtown-shooting-spokesman-says

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Originally posted by warhorse58gt:
He didn't say that! http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121216/FEAT/121216011/Morgan-Freeman-hoax-actor-denies-statement-about-Newtown-shooting-spokesman-says

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Exactly! cafords sheeple believe anything...

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Originally posted by warhorse58gt:
He didn't say that! http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121216/FEAT/121216011/Morgan-Freeman-hoax-actor-denies-statement-about-Newtown-shooting-spokesman-says

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Exactly! cafords sheeple believe anything...

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Easy there tiger.

Does it matter who said it? Understand the message behind the statement, not the person who said it.

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It doesn't.. Just because he didn't say it. Doesn't mean it don't ring true.

P.s. Morgan is a bad ass..
 

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Posted by 66_5.0 (Member # 9974) on :
 
Well whoever said it is on point. The world is sick..feeding off shit like this and making it glamorous for these lunatics.

Focus on the children and their families for once
 

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