Opinion: "No matter how noble, an agenda-driven narrative built on rigged, misleading and ignored facts self-destructs its own argument."
by Dale Brumfield
In a 1969 memo, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote to the Chicago field office that “facts are immaterial” in pursuing its goal of harassing and disrupting the Black Panther Party. Facts frequently can interfere with an agenda-driven narrative, such as the one the FBI pursued against the Panthers in the late ’60s, and more recently the one that Rolling Stone magazine pursued Nov. 19 of an alleged rape at the University of Virginia.…[ Read more ]
