Latest Mike Tobin video on Baltimore "shooting" today

Posted: May 4, 2015

Here is the new video. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-mike-tobin-defends-inaccurate-initial-report-on-baltimore-shooting/ In it, Fox News' Mike Tobin says: "It was the observation of myself, my security team and my camera man that the officer had his weapon drawn. We heard a gunshot, we saw the person being chased on the ground. I arrived at the conclusion that the man had been shot, as you naturally would in a situation like that. We walked up on him, he looked to be in bad shape. The police now say that he was uninjured. So it's not clear if he hit his head, if he was exhausted or if he was just play-acting, but he looked to be in bad shape when they took him away on the ambulance. Obviously, the initial conclusion that he was shot is inaccurate now, but if the situation were to duplicate itself a short period time from now, or any time in the future, I'd be hard pressed not to arrive at the same conclusion." Interestingly, Manuel Rapalo from RT reported the same thing via Twitter. Okay, but I still have no idea of what really went on today, then, or why the man WAS lying on the ground. Though Fox News gave an apology, that's not exactly an apology from Mike Tobin. I don't think it's because he's too proud, but because he almost sounds still unconvinced. This is why the press either needs to film it while it's happening or report their perception, but explain they don't have confirmation of their perception yet. And by confirmation of the full perspective, I do not mean just from the police; I mean getting BOTH sides of the story from both police and the man taken to the hospital via ambulance himself, later (which we still don't have). And hey, since we still haven't heard from the guy that went to the hospital, Mike Tobin could still be right. That'd be a looootttt of lying by a lot of higher-up police, so I don't think so, but ya never know with all that's gone on. Interestingly, both liberals and conservatives have reported both on social media and here that they "saw it happen live", giving vastly different accounts, but provide no video link, and apparently no such video yet publicly exists of the actual event, just the after-effects of it (at least at the time I wrote this). Does this mean either liberals or conservatives are lying about what they saw or stupid or knee-jerk hysterics? No, not necessarily. It means that sometimes we as humans jump to conclusions based on what pieces we DID see or we see what we want to, especially when there's lots going on or tensions and emotions are high. Or sometimes we ARE telling the full story based on what we could see from where we were standing at the time, both literally and figuratively. Still other times, it's a person's individual personality they focus on details rather than big picture or vice versa. Although the press is supposed to hire more objective personalities, nowadays, it seems they're looking more for PR people and sensationalists. But even when they are more objective personalities reporting, they're still human. So perhaps the reason this happens in situations like these is because underneath all the political perspectives, we're all the same as human beings, subject even to the same flaws, just in different ways - whether we like to admit it or not:) PS - I realize this isn't going to win me any popularity contests on either "side" and it's not like I haven't done this myself. But that's my point. Maybe we all do sometimes, it's not party specific:);