tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post3606448156810355318..comments2024-01-13T10:12:47.756+00:00Comments on Ranting Stan: One out of threeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-15208149067284818302009-02-23T15:47:00.000+00:002009-02-23T15:47:00.000+00:00Two things strike me when considering the treatmen...Two things strike me when considering the treatment of the Macpherson report by the MSM over the last decade.<BR/>Firstly, the fact that "professional incompetence" was consistently overlooked as a likely cause of the Met's lamentable investigation.Many of the team working on the Lawrence murder also worked on the Green Chain Rapist case (Robert Napper)- and look how they failed to link that with the Rachel Nickell murder, much to the disadvantage of Colin Stagg. I suppose it helped Lawrence's parents heal the void of his loss to imagine they were victims of racism rather than laziness or incompetence. Seeing their perception of events echoed and magnified by the media clearly had a bandwagon effect- to which Macpherson provided the fitting climax.<BR/>Secondly, the MSM can usually be relied upon to trot out the 'it's a cock up, not a conspiracy' line when offialdom is found out to be complicit in tragic events. Yet in this case they bought into a concept, 'institutional racism' more opaque, and more lacking in hard evidence, than many 'consipracy theories' that are widely ridiculed (such as the 'David Kelly was murdered' theory).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com