| Raze said: Civil society, perfect oxymoron. =p I guess I could credit the idea if the shootings were occuring where or near the protest is happening. Also might credit it better if it was anything outside the NY Post, and I'm not just saying that because that's your source, but because having grown up in NYC, most see the Post as a bit of a tabloid more than a credible news company. |
There's something to that. For one thing, the Post is literally a tabloid. I don't really think they're all that much less credible than a lot of other, more respected papers and outlets, though. They just happen to wear their bias on their sleeve, which I actually prefer, and that's one reason I prefer MSNBC to, say, CNN. But it goes almost without saying that the Post doesn't like OWS, so they have every reason to uncritically quote a couple of NYPD sources (only one named) and tie the rise in shootings to the protest.
