Inside the Manifesto

Read this:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/05/judge_throws_out_murder_charge.html

You may be surprised at my response to this article.  It has nothing to do with the facts of the case or the decision of the judge.  It has to do with the narrative.  It has to do with how a spokesperson for a county prosecutor violates his professional responsibility in a pretty flagrant way.  The  very notion  of a spokesperson for Bill Mason is appalling.  Why can't he speak for himself?, one might ask.  Perhaps he's too busy pursuing a Wind Energy Feather in his Cap, or being intimately involved in cases where people's convictions are overturned because of prosecutorial impropriety.  At any rate,  Bill Mason has abused his office again and again.

Perhaps he and Ryan should go where a county prosecutor should go.  To the courtroom, so they, themselves , can see the utter incompetence, fraudulence and corruption they preside over and propagandize.

The problem dates back many years, but coincides with the pathetic turn of local news media into twenty-four-seven infotainment.  It's a cozy relationship: 19 Action News gets the inside dirt on lots of criminal cases while tainting and alarming the jury pool public; Mason gets to set the narrative in all criminal cases, and has the help of a spokesperson to do it.  Nevermind that it is a violation of professional ethics to discuss cases, state facts, give opinions.  It's just business as usual.  Sometimes it's an even cozier relationship:  I'm not sure who's fucking whom between the Plain Dealer staff and the County Prosecutor's Office staff, but it's time for the PD to make a mea culpa if it's editorial content has been compromised by sexual relationships.

Ultimately, the local news media has acquiesced to a propaganda machine.  Think I'm over-reacting?  Ask Ryan Miday the difference between what he knows and what he believes.  Then ask him who helped him draft the clever script in the article, above.

He and/or his spokesperson should feel free to post a response.  Or perhaps he should let his attorney speak on his behalf. "Hello, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association?"

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