Media Outlets Go Into Frenzy Over Death of Trayvon Martin

When seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by twenty eight-year-old George Zimmerman last week, the media went into a frenzy. Zimmerman claimed Martin attacked him, and in order to defend himself, he shot and killed the teen. Now news outlets have been having a field day trying to sway the public to their side of the issue.

Rather than simply reporting the fact, journalists from all over the country are trying to influence their readers with obvious bias. How else can you have one newspaper portray Martin as an innocent kid who was attack and killed when another reports that Martin attacked Zimmerman first?

Now “civil rights activists” are muddying up the investigation even more by trying to push the Justice Department to charge Zimmerman with a hate crime, when the only evidence they can provide is that he may or may not have muttered a racial slur while on the phone with 911. Now, the police are having an even more difficult time trying to uncover all of the facts in this cloudy case simply because people from all over the country think they know more about what went on and are trying to force their beliefs to become truths.

Now, instead of having a tragic incident that resulted in the death of a young man, whether right or wrong, we have a media frenzy. With the media spinning every new piece of information or update to fit their personal agendas, it’s impossible to know the truth of what happened that fateful night.