"when we practice to deceive"
Posted in Greensboro
Jan. 11, 2008 at 10:08
by BrendaBee
Excerpt from YES!WEEKLY post dated January 11, 2008 as follows:“….Holder, along with Brenda Bowers objects to my use of the term “retraction” to describe the post-script provided by lawyer Walt Jones and published by The Rhinoceros Times concerning Officer Stacy Morton’s disciplinary case. This is a matter of semantics. I leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions about the truth of Morton’s case by examining Bledsoe’s initial account juxtaposed with the information that was subsequently provided to him.” (color for emphasis mine. BB)
I, Brenda Bowers, do sincerely wish to thank YES!WEEKLY for two very generous actions in their post today. First, putting the Opinionated Old Broad’s name in the same sentence with Ben Holder. Ben Holder is highly respected and admired by the members of the blogosphere, and I am sure by people all over the triad as a man seeking and finding truth and justice. He has dedicated his life to righting wrongs. It is indeed an honor and privilege to be linked with him if only in this one small matter.
Second, by proving my point that they egregiously used journalistic shenanigans to turn truth into a lie by calling the Rhino’s a mere printing Walt Jone’s (Stacy Morton’s defense attorney) account of the incident in question a “retraction”. In today’s post they refer to this as merely “semantics”. I stated in my last paragraph that if caught they would make this claim.
“That one little word "retraction" that made all the difference. And what makes this so frightening for the average reader is that all thru the quotes of the "Retraction" the reader is told that the speaker is Walt Jones. And yet because the quote is labeled "Retraction" the reader misreads "said Jones" and accepts what Jordan Green wants the reader to accept and that is that Jerry Bledsoe is speaking. In truth, Jerry Bledsoe made only one retraction. He had stated in his account that the case was thrown out by the court when in fact Stacey Morton was acquitted. Bledsoe explains this in detail and apologizes for not double checking his sources by seeing the actual records himself but taking the word of a clerk. The final assault on the truth is well understood by Jordan Green also, and that is that the average reader having failed to comprehend what was written will continue to believe the last version they read which is Mr. Green's. It won't matter that Ben Holder gives an accurate and point by point refutation of Jordan Green's article. It won't matter that I ( with a specialty in Reading Education by the way) am pointing out just what exactly was done to mislead the reader. The lie will stand as truth. And if Jordan Green is forced to admit his misleading journalistic endeavor he can simply apologize for mis-using one little word. No big deal to misuse one little word in the whole long article is there? BB”
Jordan Green was found out and he did exactly what deceivers always do when their deceit is found out, he fell back on the old rusty excuse “It’s just a matter of semantics”. People I leave you to judge for yourself just as Jordan Green has left you. Was the mere printing of a letter from another person who disagreed with the article the paper had printed a “retraction”? (withdrawal, renunciation) Or was it a mere courtesy to give the opposing side an equal opportunity to state their case? Printing of a Letter to the Editor as the Rhino and other news papers do all the time. BB
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