The Recklessness of the 8/13/10: CNN Special Investigation Unit Feature on BP Gulf Oil Crisis Clean Up, The Alleged Rapist Ronnie Charles Robertson, Hatchet Journalism and the Rotten Underside of the Criminal Justice System

On 8/13/10; CNN aired a segment by it's Special Investigation Unit on an incident during the BP Gulf Oil Crisis clean up.  This 8/13/10; CNN Special Investigation Unit feature is a classic example of everything that is wrong with Corporate Media and it's relationship with the viewing public.  The /8/13/10; CNN Special Investigation feature was on the alleged rape committed by a member, Ronnie Charles Robertson, a Black Man, of the clean up crew of the BP Gulf Oil Crisis.  The 8/13/10; CNN Special Investigation feature presented a perspective that is crass sensationalism and hatchet journalism.  It attempted to hold BP responsible for an alleged criminal act committed by a BP contract employee, after work hours, at a venue outside of the BP work area because the worker a convicted rapist wasn't registered on the Sex Registry.  as spurious and reckless as this perspective-opinion masquerading as journalistic investigation is.  CNN permitted the alleged rape victim, the Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Mississippi and the alleged rape victims Lawyer Adam Miller to indict, convict and exact sentence on Ronnie Charles Robertson, the alleged rapist with their unchallenged and unrebutted on the air views and comments, despite the fact the alleged rapist has claimed the sex was consensual.  CNN performed this hatchet journalism under the sensationalistic logic that BP should have done a background criminal check on the contract employee.

The recklessness of the 8/13/10; CNN Special Investigation Unit feature is extraordinary.  CNN had the prime opportunity to expose the rotten underside of the nations Criminal Justice system, with the simple question Why didn't the Prison System, it's Department of Corrections that released Ronnie Charles Robertson register him on the Sex Registry Before Release, Why isn't the Prison System, it's Department of Corrections and the Criminal Justice System blamed instead of the easy to blame BP?

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