Why is it so hard to get simple facts. I've watched CBS, FOX News, and CNN over the past few days. All three disagree on simple facts concerning this case. As usual, FOX News spouts the most misinformation. Even 12 hours after the oldest son was in custody, FOX News said the police had to be careful, because the oldest son was in the house, armed, and had threatened the police. That's a nice trick, being in two places at once.
The rant by Don Harkins is even worse. He claims the family was attacked with "sophisticated technologies that to most people are the stuff of science fiction." And, he claimed the kids were going to be vaccinated which is the "introduction of toxic substances directly into their blood streams." The state will give the children junk food that will cause "psychological equanimnity (sic)." Could we please get facts and not your paranoid rants? Was this guy wearing a tin hat while writing this?
Is there any news source that presents facts?
Way offtopic rant: I've always thought reporters should have to learn how to program. It would teach them vital skills. One being that if you don't get the syntax (the grammar) just right, then the program won't compile. I've seen way too many reporters that are fast and lose with their sentence structure. Secondly, if you don't get the semantics (the meaning) right, then the program probably won't do what you want it to do. For example, the local evening news recently described an attacker as having a full-automatic bolt-action rifle. Programming teaches you that if you don't know what something means, then leave it out. Thirdly, programming also teaches you how to sequence events. In other words, one thing happens after another. My wife had a cooking show on the local news for several years, and did some editing of news stories. The main problem I saw was that the reporters simply didn't care about facts or the order in which they were presented. Example, a coworker of mine fired a gun at a robber. This was after he was hit in the head with a hammer by the robber when the robber grabbed a bag containing a delivery of a bag of change to the soda shop. A cut and dried case of self-defense. The evening news said that the robber hit my friend after the robber was shot. They made it look like the robber used the hammer in self-defense. It wasn't intentional. The reporters simply had no sense of sequence. That's were programming would help them. I've sent a pretty serious anti-media bias here. Some of it is deserved, but much of it is because these guys simply don't understand logic, critical thinking, cause/effect, or the English language. I want to find a reporter/news source/news editor that does understand these things.
Sorry for the rant.