In the past week of the media covering Trayvon Martin, Howard Kurtz observed that MSNBC and Fox News seemed to be acting in lieu of the prosecution and the defense, completely leaving the justice system by the wayside. Hosts on the liberal network are taking a much more aggressive line, especially in Lawrence O'Donnell's now-infamous interview with George Zimmerman acquaintance Joe Oliver, while the more conservative network has been more open to the idea that Martin may have done something to initiate an attack of self-defense.
- 4/1/2012
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
MTV News looks back at the Florida teen's killing and the month that followed.
By Gil Kaufman
Trayvon Martin
Photo: AP
It's been more than a month since 17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by self-appointed neighborhood-watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, on February 26.
Since the case burst onto the national consciousness over the past month, there have been protests, unending questions about the facts in the incident, a national debate about the wearing of hoodies and plenty of reaction from the hip-hop community about what other issues may be beneath the surface of the shooting.
"There is a general understanding from society that the law will work when it is supposed to and, when the facts support one understanding of a crime, that the law will do what it is supposed to do to make sure everyone is vindicated in the way they should be,...
By Gil Kaufman
Trayvon Martin
Photo: AP
It's been more than a month since 17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by self-appointed neighborhood-watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, on February 26.
Since the case burst onto the national consciousness over the past month, there have been protests, unending questions about the facts in the incident, a national debate about the wearing of hoodies and plenty of reaction from the hip-hop community about what other issues may be beneath the surface of the shooting.
"There is a general understanding from society that the law will work when it is supposed to and, when the facts support one understanding of a crime, that the law will do what it is supposed to do to make sure everyone is vindicated in the way they should be,...
- 3/30/2012
- MTV Music News
Earlier today, Mediaite's own Noah Rothman delivered a pretty harsh assessment of Lawrence O'Donnell and Charles Blow's interview with George Zimmerman friend and former news anchor Joe Oliver on last night's The Last Word, even comparing Blow to a Stalinist prosecutor. While their interview style was undeniably aggressive, it was necessary, and achieved what journalism is supposed to achieve: it revealed a multitude of truths.
- 3/28/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell invited Joe Oliver, friend and spokesperson for unindicted Tryavon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, on his program “The Last Word.” O’Donnell also invited New York Times’ columnist Charles Blow to participate in the discussion. What followed was a theatrical performance that should give the overtly progressive network and O’Donnell’s audience pause.
- 3/28/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
The death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has devastated his parents and set off a nationwide debate after he was killed by George Zimmerman during a routine neighborhood watch patrol in Florida.
Martin covers the latest issue of People, and Zimmerman, who was not arrested, is reportedly going through his own torment as a result of the teen's death. Zimmerman's friend, Joe Oliver, said, "He's not the man that I knew before the shooting. He's a...
Martin covers the latest issue of People, and Zimmerman, who was not arrested, is reportedly going through his own torment as a result of the teen's death. Zimmerman's friend, Joe Oliver, said, "He's not the man that I knew before the shooting. He's a...
- 3/28/2012
- Extra
George Zimmerman is accused of doing the unthinkable: shooting an unarmed teenager during a routine neighborhood watch patrol. The death of Trayvon Martin - and the police decision not to arrest Zimmerman - has devastated Martin's parents, set off a nationwide debate, and prompted President Obama to speak out in unusually personal terms. But a friend of Zimmerman says the Florida man is going through his own torment. "He's not the man that I knew before the shooting," Joe Oliver tells People in this week's cover story. "He's a completely different man; he'll never be the same. He prays for...
- 3/28/2012
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
On Tuesday night's The Last Word, George Zimmerman friend and former news anchor Joe Oliver finally ran into an interviewer who has been watching the game films, and the result was an epic two segments of television that left Oliver's premise, that he knows Zimmerman well enough to know he couldn't have killed Trayvon Martin in cold blood, in tatters.
- 3/28/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Former reporter and news anchor Joe Oliver continued his media tour on behalf of his friend George Zimmerman, who claims he killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in self defense, with an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball. Among several inaccurate or contradictory claims, Oliver offered a bizarre explanation of the 911 tape in which Zimmerman appears to grumble "f**kin' coons" moments before shooting Trayvon to death.
- 3/27/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
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