April 30, 2007
Today, ABC runs the headline Va. Tech Shooter, Victim Linked to Gun Range, in an attempt to establish a connection between Seung-Hui Cho and his first victim, Emily Hilscher.
The connection?
Cho used the Jefferson National Forest Firing Range at least three times in the six weeks prior to the Virginia Tech massacre. Heather Haugh, Emily Hilscher's roommate, said that Hilscher went to that range with her boyfriend Karl David Thornhill, perhaps even a month ago.
The ABC News reporter, Lara Setrakian, then states:
The link between Hilscher and Cho is unclear, but possibly crucial to understanding a motive behind the April 16 attack.
Interesting line. Setrakian essentially admits there is no clear link, but then speculates that a link that may not even exist is "possibly crucial to understanding a motive."
Setrakian presents no evidence that Cho and Hilscher were at the range at the same time, same day, or even the same week.
This is "crucial?" Do we blindly speculate much?
You know, I was in a sporting goods store some years ago in Middletown, NY, when actress Holly Hunter purchased a treadmill, and I actually helped her and the guy she was with load it. Does that prove we have some sort of relationship? Apparently it would to ABC News, as it is a far more concrete link than this Cho/Hilscher story.
Sadly, blind speculation and incompetence, along with outright, still uncorrected falsehoods, are sadly becoming the new journalistic standards of ABC News, where "ABC" seems to be defined as "anything but credible."
Holly, if you read this, and remotely remember that tender handful of seconds we almost had together almost talking in a Middletown, NY parking lot... call me.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at
11:35 AM
| Comments (6)
| Add Comment
Post contains 327 words, total size 2 kb.
Posted by: Laddy at April 30, 2007 12:38 PM (dZABG)
Posted by: Doc Washboard at April 30, 2007 01:01 PM (nrafD)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 30, 2007 03:35 PM (ivi7/)
Posted by: bub at April 30, 2007 11:28 PM (rV+M7)
Posted by: David Caskey at May 01, 2007 07:27 AM (G5i3t)
Posted by: Justin at May 01, 2007 08:28 AM (NiTuu)
54 queries taking 0.0827 seconds, 157 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.