I don't even know where to start to with this statement:

In a brief clip that aired on Monday's "Today," Oprah Winfrey compared the killing of Trayvon Martin to that of Emmett Till, the young black boy whose brutal murder helped fuel the civil rights movement.

It was one of her first public comments about the case, which has seen African Americans and whites sharply divided about whether George Zimmerman's acquittal was just.

"Trayvon Martin, parallel to Emmett Till," Oprah told The Grio's Chris Witherspoon. "Let me just tell you, in my mind, same thing. But you can stuck in that and not allow yourself to move forward and to see how far we've come."

In a previous interview with Diane Sawyer, she said her new movie, "The Butler," could offer an answer to white people who were confused as to why African Americans were so outraged about Martin's death.

Oprah also appeared on "CBS This Morning" for that show's entire second hour, talking about things as varied as morning sex, her upcoming interview with Lindsay Lohan, and her network, OWN.

"We're having fun, we're making money, we're really in the business," she said of OWN.

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But, let's just start with the basics:

Emmitt Till was brutally tortured and killed for whistling at a white woman in 1955.
His body tied to a cotton gin fan and thrown in a river.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
His killers were acquitted by an all white jury but publicly admitted to the killing in a magazine interview.





Trayvon Martin was shot and killed after he attacked George Zimmerman.
A jury of 6 women found George Zimmerman not guilty of manslaughter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin#Aspects_of_coverage
Zimmerman has always maintained his innocence in that he believed that his life was in danger.
His physical wounds would seem to back this up.
The police who were on the scene 2 minutes after the shooting and interviewed Zimmerman for 5 hours decided not to charge him because they believed the shooting was in self defense.

Charges were only brought 6 weeks after the shooting amid widespread outside and public pressure, much based on misleading or outright wrong media reports.


Zimmerman was accused of being motivated by racism[4][151] and of having racially profiled Martin.[4][105][257][282] During early media coverage of the incident, Zimmerman's call to the police dispatcher was misleadingly edited by NBC so that it appeared that Zimmerman had volunteered Martin's race. The unedited audio recording proved that the police dispatcher specifically asked about Martin's race, and only then did Zimmerman reveal that Martin was black. NBC apologized for the misleading edit and disciplined those involved.[283]


Media portrayal of Martin and Zimmerman
The Associated Press noted that initially the most widely used media photo of Martin was several years old and showed him as a "baby-faced boy," rather than as a 17-year-old young man. To represent Zimmerman, the media chose a shot of a beefy 21-year-old Zimmerman taken seven years prior to the shooting, whereas recent photos show him as slim-faced and more mature. The two outdated photos chosen by the media may have helped shape the initial public perception of the shooting. The AP quoted academic Kenny Irby on the expected effect, "When you have such a lopsided visual comparison, it just stands to reason that people would rush to judgment," and another academic, Betsi Grabe, as saying that journalists will present stories as a struggle between good and evil "[i]f the ingredients are there."[332]
With the release of witness testimony and the details of the altercation prior to Martin's death, various media had advanced the primary source testimony with speculation surrounding the events which further drove public outcry. Martin's and Zimmerman's height and weight were the subject of contention in the media and blogs and used to inform speculation.[333] Some of these speculations fueled outrage and controversy on both sides; combining scant or misleading information with speculation.[334][335] Contributing to the controversy was an image of a different person also named Trayvon Martin in a "gangsta" pose; the error discovered much later.[336][337]
CNN and "white Hispanic"
CNN's usage of the label "white Hispanic" to describe Zimmerman has been derided by critics (including Zimmerman's father) as erroneous and "injecting a hostile racial narrative" into news coverage.[338][339][340]
Reporting on Zimmerman's call to police
Economist and commentator Thomas Sowell criticized the national media for implying that Zimmerman had continued to follow Martin after the police dispatcher said, "We don't need you to do that." He said that they mostly left out Zimmerman's answer, "O.K." because "too many people in the media see their role as filtering and slanting the news."[341]
After the audio of the call was released, reports by CNN[342] and other news outlets alleged that Zimmerman had said "fucking coons" two minutes and twenty-one seconds (2:21) into the call. Two weeks later on April 4, 2012, CNN claimed that enhanced audio revealed that Zimmerman had said "fucking cold" (alluding to ongoing rain in February).[343] The following day, April 5, 2012, CNN's Martin Savidge reported that forensic audio expert Tom Owen claimed it was "fucking punks."[344] It is said to be "fucking punks" in the affidavit of probable cause, dated April 11, 2012.[189] Other reviewers of the call have offered alternate interpretations of what was said, some labeling it "unintelligible." According to the Associated Press, the alleged racial slur "fed growing outrage over the police department's initial decision not to arrest Zimmerman."[345][346][347][348]
Deceptive audio editing by NBC
Between March 19 and 27, 2012, the NBC Nightly News, NBC's Today show, and NBC's network-owned Miami affiliate WTVJ NBC6[349] ran segments which misleadingly merged parts of Zimmerman's call. On one version of the recording played by NBC, Zimmerman was heard saying, "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something... He's got his hand in his waistband, and he's a black male."[350] In another what was played was, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." In the original 9-1-1 recording, Zimmerman said: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about." The 9-1-1 operator then asked: "OK, and this guy, is he black, white or Hispanic?", and Zimmerman answered, "He looks black."[283] The phrase, "He's got his hand in his waistband, and he's a black male" came several exchanges after that point in the conversation.[351][352]
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post wrote that NBC's alterations "would more readily paint Zimmerman as a racial profiler. In reality... Zimmerman simply answered a question... Nothing prejudicial at all in responding to such an inquiry... To portray that exchange in a way that wrongs Zimmerman is high editorial malpractice..."[283]
NBC issued an apology for "an error made in the production process that we deeply regret,"[353] but never apologized on the air.[354] The network said that the Today show and Miami edits took place in two separate incidents involving different people. A Miami-based NBC News producer lost her job, WTVJ reporter Jeff Burnside was fired,[355] and two other employees were disciplined.[356][357] Lilia Luciano, who was the reporter on broadcasts containing both edited versions of the audio,[350][358] was also fired, and her aired reports on the Trayvon Martin story, along with the misleading audio, were removed from the Today website.[359][360]
On December 6, 2012, Zimmerman filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC alleging that they intentionally edited the phone call so that Zimmerman would sound racist. The lawsuit said, "NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain."[361][362] A NBC spokeswoman said the network strongly disagreed with the accusations that Zimmerman made in the complaint, stating; "There was no intent to portray Mr. Zimmerman unfairly and we intend to vigorously defend our position in court."[363]
Surveillance video mistake


Image enhancement of a single frame of the police surveillance video (left) by The Daily Caller (middle) and by Forensic Protection, Inc. working with ABC News (right) shows two welts or abrasions. ABC originally said the video showed no blood or bruises.[364]
ABC News obtained a surveillance video of Zimmerman walking unassisted into the Sanford police station after the shooting. An officer is seen pausing to look at the back of Zimmerman's head, but ABC originally said that no abrasions or blood can be seen in the video.[364] The Daily Caller disputed this claim, and posted a still from the ABC video which showed an injury on the back of Zimmerman's head.[365] ABC later reported that it had "re-digitized" the video, and said that this version showed "what appear to be a pair of gashes or welts on George Zimmerman's head," but the story's main focus was on a doctor who claimed it was unlikely that Zimmerman's nose had been broken.[366][367]
Misleading reporting after the verdict
In his July 26, 2013 column, Slate journalist William Saletan accused several major news organizations of editing interviews with "Juror B29" to make it appear that she maintained Zimmerman had gotten away with murder when she had not actually done so.[368]

This is the picture of George Zimmerman the police took at the scene of Trayvon Martin's shooting.
But this is the picture the vast majority of the media chose to use.

No bias there.

Cute kid.
No bias here either.

Mmm Hmm.

Exactly the same as Emmett Till.

No difference at all.