The national media slobbered over the news of the vicious anti-gay
hate crime for days on end. Now I haven't heard anything about the
story being made up by the deranged "victim" other than in the local
newspaper. Interesting.

Aug 21, 6:26 PM EDT

Police: Ex-Neb. hoops star faked anti-gay attack

By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A former University of Nebraska women's
basketball star faked an attack in which she allegedly carved anti-gay
slurs into her skin because she felt it would spark change, police
said Tuesday.

Four days before Charlie Rogers crawled naked and bleeding from her
Lincoln home, screaming for help, she outlined in a Facebook posting
what investigators believe was her motive for faking the July 22
attack, Police Chief Jim Peschong said at a news conference.

"So maybe I am too idealistic, but I believe way deep inside me that
we can make things better for everyone. I will be a catalyst. I will
do what it takes. I will. Watch me," read the July 18 posting,
according to police.

Furthermore, genetic testing on evidence gathered at the crime scene
undermines Rogers' account of what happened, Peschong said.

Charlie Rogers, 33, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to making a false
police report and was released on her own recognizance. She didn't
respond to a message seeking comment left Tuesday at a number listed
as hers, but her lawyer, Brett McArthur, said she maintains the attack
happened and plans to vigorously defend herself.

"This has been a very traumatic event for her, and having the focus of
the investigation turn toward her has been really hard," said
McArthur, who described Rogers as reserved and soft-spoken, and not
the type to seek attention.

"She has no reason to lie about what happened. She's pretty
devastated, when you go to authorities and things kind of get turned
around on you," he said.

Rogers, a lesbian who ranks second all-time in blocked shots for the
Cornhuskers, reported the attack amid a charged debate in Lincoln over
the city's proposed "fairness ordinance," which would ban
discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
The City Council approved the ordinance in May, 5-0, but two
conservative groups gathered enough signatures to force a popular vote
on it before it can take effect.

According to police, Rogers said three masked men broke into her home,
and that one of them pinned her down while another sliced a cross into
her chest, cut the front of her thighs and shins and carved derogatory
words in her arms and abdomen. She said they then rolled her onto her
stomach and cut her buttocks, the back of her thighs and the back of
her right calf. She also said they tried to burn down her house.

Rogers crawled from her home naked, bleeding and screaming for help, a
neighbor told police. The community's gay community responded swiftly,
and hundreds turned out for a rally that weekend outside the state
Capitol.

On Tuesday, four Nebraska gay-rights groups that followed the case
released a joint statement crediting police for conducting what they
believe was a balanced and thorough investigation.

"It is important not to focus on the actions of any single
individual," the groups said in the statement. "As residents of
Lincoln we must continue to bring our community together to declare
that violence and hate are not the values of our city."

According to Peschong, police found a pile of clothes, white knit
gloves and a red box cutter on the living room floor after the alleged
attack. Rogers said the gloves didn't belong to her, but investigators
determined that a lot of the DNA found inside the glove was Rogers'
and that none of it came from a male.

Peschong said investigators discovered that Rogers deleted numerous
text messages she had sent the evening of the alleged attack, and that
she bought cotton gloves, a box cutter and zip ties from an Ace
Hardware Store in Lincoln on July 17. All of the items were later
found in her house, he said. When confronted about the evidence weeks
later, he said, Rogers admitted to purchasing all of the items except
the gloves.

She also sent a photo of a cross-shaped cut on her chest to a friend a
few days before the reported attack, Peschong said.

Investigators say they found no apparent sign of a struggle in the
living room where Rogers said she was attacked, and no blood on the
sheets where the cutting allegedly took place. An FBI forensic
pathologist concluded that Rogers either cut herself, or allowed
someone else to do it.

Peschong said the department spent thousands of dollars investigating
the case, but he stressed that the case will not undermine the
department's trust in people who report hate crimes.

"The FBI, the Bureau of Fire Prevention and the Lincoln Police
Department have spent an exorbitant amount of time and personnel
resources investigating this," he said. "We aggressively investigated
this. Every day since this incident has happened, there have been
investigators working on trying to identify who these assailants
were."

On 8/22/2012 7:42 PM, Rob wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Truth Teller
wrote:

The national media slobbered over the news of the vicious anti-gay
hate crime for days on end. Now I haven't heard anything about the
story being made up by the deranged "victim" other than in the local
newspaper. Interesting.

Aug 21, 6:26 PM EDT

Police: Ex-Neb. hoops star faked anti-gay attack

By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A former University of Nebr

The associated press is world wide news provider. There is nothing hidden
about this incident.




True, but few people read the raw feeds on the wire services. (For
example, who here is aware of the UPI stories on Israeli death
squads being deployed in Western nations?)

There is a huge difference in the way national editors treat stories
with Politically Correct perpetrators versus those with Politically
Incorrect perpetrators. One often results in major network and front
page coverage for weeks -- the other almost never does so.


With every good wish,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://nationalvanguard.org/
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

On 8/22/12 18:51 , Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
On 8/22/2012 7:42 PM, Rob wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Truth Teller
wrote:

The national media slobbered over the news of the vicious anti-gay
hate crime for days on end. Now I haven't heard anything about the
story being made up by the deranged "victim" other than in the local
newspaper. Interesting.

Aug 21, 6:26 PM EDT

Police: Ex-Neb. hoops star faked anti-gay attack

By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A former University of Nebr

The associated press is world wide news provider. There is nothing hidden
about this incident.




True, but few people read the raw feeds on the wire services. (For
example, who here is aware of the UPI stories on Israeli death squads
being deployed in Western nations?)

There is a huge difference in the way national editors treat stories
with Politically Correct perpetrators versus those with Politically
Incorrect perpetrators. One often results in major network and front
page coverage for weeks -- the other almost never does so.



The truth is that almost no one is committed to being informed, in
this country, anymore. They take what they're spoonfed, and ignore much
of that. To be truly informed requires work, and there just isn't that
much effort being put into by the public. And editors know this.

In school, I sat through class after class telling me that the public
will know what we WANT them to know, because we're the media, and
they're ignorant (although the presentation was much less direct than
that statement). At CBS, I sat through meeting after meeting after
meeting, (until I could no longer stand it and left), where we were told
what we'd talk about, how we'd cover it, and what our position was to be
on that subject. And when I spoke up and said that the 'official'
position isn't true, was told...and this is a direct quote from my
GM..."this is what we stand for. And we will make the case, without
reservation, or we'll no longer work here. The subject is not open for
debate."

I walked out in utter disgust not long after. Put my key on the
table, and never went back. Not even to clean out my office. I left my
mics, preamps, and compressors there, as well as nearly 12 years of
material and properties.

Andy Warhol, of whom I was never really a fan, made a significant
point with his Empire State building film: that the truth, in media, is
what's given to you. And that everything you see, hear, read, or
experience in media is from a point of view selected by the producer,
editor, writer, or presenter. Doug Urbanski said that in Hollywood,
EVERYTHING is staged. The topic is selected. The presentation is
crafted, and everything...every inflection, every pause, every facial
muscles' twitch is carefully selected to imply a judgment about the
topic. There is no unbiased coverage, or presentation. Not in Hollywood.
Not anywhere.

Even something as simple as 8 hours of a single shot of the Empire
State Building is biased. You see the perspective of the camera. A
perspective that's chosen for you, unchallenged, and uncontrasted, by
the person who chose the shot. The unbiased truth isn't what's on the
screen, it's what's standing at 5th Ave and West 34th. The unbiased
truth is the Empire State Building seen from all sides, and all angles
all times of the day or night. And experienced in totality.

Media doesn't do that. Media selects. Media edits. And the truth is
often the things that Media never presents, never reveals.

On 8/22/2012 8:36 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 8/22/12 18:51 , Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
On 8/22/2012 7:42 PM, Rob wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Truth Teller
wrote:

The national media slobbered over the news of the vicious
anti-gay
hate crime for days on end. Now I haven't heard anything about the
story being made up by the deranged "victim" other than in the
local
newspaper. Interesting.

Aug 21, 6:26 PM EDT

Police: Ex-Neb. hoops star faked anti-gay attack

By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A former University of Nebr

The associated press is world wide news provider. There is
nothing hidden
about this incident.




True, but few people read the raw feeds on the wire services. (For
example, who here is aware of the UPI stories on Israeli death squads
being deployed in Western nations?)

There is a huge difference in the way national editors treat stories
with Politically Correct perpetrators versus those with Politically
Incorrect perpetrators. One often results in major network and front
page coverage for weeks -- the other almost never does so.



The truth is that almost no one is committed to being informed,
in this country, anymore. They take what they're spoonfed, and
ignore much of that. To be truly informed requires work, and there
just isn't that much effort being put into by the public. And
editors know this.

In school, I sat through class after class telling me that the
public will know what we WANT them to know, because we're the media,
and they're ignorant (although the presentation was much less direct
than that statement). At CBS, I sat through meeting after meeting
after meeting, (until I could no longer stand it and left), where we
were told what we'd talk about, how we'd cover it, and what our
position was to be on that subject. And when I spoke up and said
that the 'official' position isn't true, was told...and this is a
direct quote from my GM..."this is what we stand for. And we will
make the case, without reservation, or we'll no longer work here.
The subject is not open for debate."

I walked out in utter disgust not long after. Put my key on the
table, and never went back. Not even to clean out my office. I left
my mics, preamps, and compressors there, as well as nearly 12 years
of material and properties.

Andy Warhol, of whom I was never really a fan, made a significant
point with his Empire State building film: that the truth, in media,
is what's given to you. And that everything you see, hear, read, or
experience in media is from a point of view selected by the
producer, editor, writer, or presenter. Doug Urbanski said that in
Hollywood, EVERYTHING is staged. The topic is selected. The
presentation is crafted, and everything...every inflection, every
pause, every facial muscles' twitch is carefully selected to imply a
judgment about the topic. There is no unbiased coverage, or
presentation. Not in Hollywood. Not anywhere.

Even something as simple as 8 hours of a single shot of the
Empire State Building is biased. You see the perspective of the
camera. A perspective that's chosen for you, unchallenged, and
uncontrasted, by the person who chose the shot. The unbiased truth
isn't what's on the screen, it's what's standing at 5th Ave and West
34th. The unbiased truth is the Empire State Building seen from all
sides, and all angles all times of the day or night. And experienced
in totality.

Media doesn't do that. Media selects. Media edits. And the truth
is often the things that Media never presents, never reveals.




Powerful words, Peter.

Thank you.

Another very, very good film on the topic of journalistic
"reality"-making is Orson Welles' _F for Fake_.


With all good wishes,



Kevin.
--
http://nationalvanguard.org/
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

On 8/22/2012 8:36 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

The truth is that almost no one is committed to being informed, in
this country, anymore. They take what they're spoonfed, and ignore much
of that. To be truly informed requires work, and there just isn't that
much effort being put into by the public. And editors know this.

For once, we agree. Nice post!

On 8/23/12 07:37 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 8/22/2012 8:36 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

The truth is that almost no one is committed to being informed, in
this country, anymore. They take what they're spoonfed, and ignore much
of that. To be truly informed requires work, and there just isn't that
much effort being put into by the public. And editors know this.

For once, we agree. Nice post!


Thank you.

On 8/23/12 07:37 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:

For once, we agree. Nice post!

Well, I knew it had to happen sooner or later.