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Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee today questioned the role of a section of media and accused cash loaded political parties of have taking control of media houses to serve their narrow political interests.

Alleging that the run up to the Lok Sabha elections has manifested an alarming role of a major section of the media, Banerjee, in a Facebook post today, said she was shocked with their partial and biased conduct. There is hardly any room for doubt that a few major cash loaded political parties have taken up control of media houses and engaged them to serve their narrow political interests, trampling down the ethics of democracy and voice of people, she said. The partial and biased conduct of a section of the media, both electronic and print, has shocked me, Banerjee said in her post. The brazen personal attacks, distortion of facts, character assassination and vilification in never before manner has stunned the nation.

The West Bengal Chief Minister said that this state of affairs could be overcome only if elections were held with state funding, which has been TMC's long-pending demand. These steps are essential for the sake of democracy. If the current trend continues, then the future of our democracy will, no doubt, be at stake, she added.

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By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch

Donald Sterling, the disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner, is seeking his 15 minutes of repentance.

Now, in the aftermath of the great American pastime of Celebrities Behaving Badly, Sterling has reached out to the American media to plead his case.

Im asking for forgiveness, he told CNNs Anderson Cooper.

Im not a racist, he added in an interview that will air on Coopers prime-time program Monday night.

Dont fall for his sad act. To put it bluntly, shed no tears for Donald Sterling. He is getting what he deserves. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has officially banned Sterling for life from the NBA and fined him $2.5 million, in the hope of forcing Sterling to sell the team. By the way, Sterling can probably get bids of about $1 billion in a sale of the team, so the NBAs death sentence is not exactly without its rewards.

But even if Silver can shove this storys villain out of the NBA picture, the media will keep Sterlings rotten image alive. In this age of 24/7 news, reputations are made and broken overnight and then sealed forever. Because of the advent of Google /quotes/zigman/30194416/delayed/quotes/nls/goog GOOG +2.16% Wikipedia and YouTube, people are, for better or worse, famous forever.

This is more than the fall of a very rich man of privilege and glamour. He got caught making damning racist comments during a private telephone conversation with a woman who was close to him.

It wasnt as if Sterling could claim he was misquoted or even misinterpreted by reporters. He was, after all, the source of those awful comments, which went viral almost immediately. Its essential to examine why the Sterling case resonated so deeply and decisively.

The saga tells, too, the real story of the American media in 2014. If Sterling really was a victim at all, it is because of his lamentable timing. This scandal came fast on the heels of the Missing Plane, a symbol of international intrigue.

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George Zimmerman #39;s Interview FAIL: Blows First TV Appearance Since Trayvon Martin Killing
George Zimmerman #39;s full exclusive interview with Fox News #39; Sean Hannity since he controversially shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Watch the full interview here: http://ywtv.tv/2012/07/19/george-zimm...

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Protesters took the streets in Los Angeles on Sunday night as outrage over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager continued. Zimmerman the US neighbour...

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He stood up for Trayvon Martin's killer at trial and on all the talk shows. He fine-tuned the narrative of Martin as a thug. He concealed his own criminal history and conducted white supremacist podcasts. But Frank Taaffe has had a change of heart, and now says Zimmerman is a racist murderer.

Taaffe, who long identified himself as Zimmerman's best friend and told anyone who would listen that Florida's most famous armed self-appointed watchman was a victim and a hero, told local TV station News 13 that he had to take an agonizing reappraisal after a series of tragic deaths in his own family. The dramatic interview is above; here's part of the writeup:

"What I know of George and his tendencies and also my opinion is that he racially profiled Trayvon Martin that night because if that had been a white kid on a cell phone, walking through our neighborhood, he wouldn't have stayed on him the way he did and that's a fact and I believe that in my heart," said Taaffe.

This is very different from what Taaffe told News 13 numerous times after the shooting, including during an interview back in May 2012 when he said, "That George Zimmerman in a position in a volunteer role wanted to ensure the safety of the community he lived in and he became the victim."

But today, Taaffe claims he just wants to clear his conscience, "I can only ask for the country to forgive me and today I believe that he racially profiled him based on the color of his skin. Reporter: Some people may wonder what does Frank Taaffe have to gain by doing this? Are you working on a book? No book. A TV show? No. I'm just working on me right now and getting right with God."

Taaffe says his brother's death last month and the death of his two sons over the past two years has changed him.

Taaffe says he has a message for Trayvon Martin's parents, "I'm sorry that you lost your son, I know what that's like and I wish things had been different."

Zimmerman and his cheerleading brother Robert declined to comment to News 13 on Taaffe's come-to-Jesus moment. Practically speaking, it doesn't change anything for Martin's family, or for the millions of Americans who live under the tyranny of the vigilante thanks to Zimmerman's acquittal and the proliferation of "stand your ground" laws that protected him.

Nevertheless, it is encouraging to see a man who once denigrated "black dogs" and "hebes" showing true contrition, however he gets there. Whether he's worthy of forgiveness is a call above my paygrade, but he's got a much better case than Zimmerman does.

[h/t Raw Story]

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