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Video: Media Bias in Kentucky Census Worker Killing

By Robert Stacy McCain on 9.30.09 @ 10:46AM

MANCHESTER, Ky. -- Political prejudice against Republicans isn't the only bias that undermines the mainstream media's credibility. Even Democrats can be vicitimized by media malpractice. While in Clay County to cover the investigation of Census worker Bill Sparkman's mysterious death, I happened to meet a young lady who says she was misquoted by a reporter in a Sept. 24 article that made headlines nationwide:

PREVIOUSLY: Murder and Motives in Clay County.

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Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:04PM

The media reported that it might have been an "accident."

The victim's head fell into the noose accidentally?

Pingback| 10.3.09 @ 3:58PM

Look, Another Steaming Pile of MSM Journalism on the Sparkman Murder links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Kentuckians as backward, ignorant and impoverished have resulted in a misleading portrayal of the decent, hard-working, law-abiding citizens of Clay County. (Let’s don’t even get into the Kelsee Brown angle.) And now we see how a too-eager desire to cast Bill Sparkman’s death as a political symbol is leading to assumptions that may be equally misinformed. It’s a free country, which…

hom| 1.12.10 @ 8:15AM

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