Shawn Parcells; CNN’s forensics expert’s creds questioned
Andy11M sends us a link to The Daily Caller which reports that CNN’s go-to forensics expert in the Michael Brown/Ferguson case isn’t who he says he is, and he doesn’t have the credentials that he says he has. Now, I don’t watch CNN, I haven’t since they ran that report of the military using chemical agents to kill defectors to the North Vietnamese in the late 90s. But apparently they used this Shawn Parcells pretty extensively;
Parcells appeared on all of the major cable TV networks, but showed up most frequently on CNN. He was interviewed multiple times on Anderson Cooper 360, and by Jake Tapper and Ashleigh Banfield. He also made at least two appearances on HLN with Nancy Grace.
But in its investigation, the very same network that cited Parcells so often found that he had embellished his academic background and that he conducted a 2012 autopsy in Missouri without a licensed pathologist present.
He even made up the term that CNN used to lend credibility to his reportage – a Forensic Pathologist Assistant. Of course, in true pretender fashion, Purcells blames CNN for not checking his creds;
Despite ample public evidence against Parcells, he told TheDC that when he was making the rounds on the TV circuit to discuss the Brown autopsy, networks never asked about his professional past.
“I was expecting them to ask, but they never did,” Parcells said.
Like I’ve been saying since we started busting the anti-war phonies here, it’s more important what the fakers are saying than what are the source’s credentials for saying that stuff. The media is more interested in making news than reporting it.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit, Media
So like I said before, if I watch Ducky doing autopsies on NCIS, then I ca n say I’m a forensic pathologist, right?
This goes beyond the pale of Stolen Valor. This jackass’s statements were not only reported as fact by reporters who didn’t do due diligence, but were later refuted by real FPs.
That alone destroyed any credibility he had, but the media pander to people like him. Then they have to cover their tracks later.
I wonder how much they like the egg on their faces instead of their plates.
No, but you COULD be a Forensic Pathologist Assistant, just like Parcells…
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I thought all one had to do was stay at a Holiday Inn Express…
Again, if they cared about the truth, they wouldn’t be in the Media business. Journalism isn’t about finding “fact” anymore, its about “ratings” and who gets the highest ratings.
Discrediting CNN is akin to disproving that the Earth is flat. Yeah, it can be done but once is enough. What’s CNN’s viewership now, 26? I sometimes come upon CNN in certain businesses and waiting areas. It’s like elevator music. You suffer it where you must and be done with it.
What you said.
Well, for some reason, CNN still has a grip on the TVs in the local Mickey Ds around here. I can’t figure out why, unless there was deal cut years ago? And certain airports still feature CNN, perhaps because of their devotion to missing airliners?
I think they are making a rebound. They have been stealing from MSNBC’s middle of the road audience. So maybe they have 200 viewers.
When there are nationally “captivating” events (O.J., Casey Anthony, Katrina, Ferguson, Monica Lewinsky, 9-11, etc) CNN gets gang buster numbers & actually challenges Fox News in key demo (18-34). CNN edged out FNC in the key demo on night of the grand jury decision though were well behind in total viewers. Problem is the “slow news” days where their brand suffers…viewership falls off a cliff. Audiences generally treat CNN as the “break glass in case of emergency” channel.
How is Al(Gore)Jazeera doing? I don’t know about the rest of America, but it still strikes me as plain wrong to ever watch it.
I’ve watched it a time or two, just to get a sense of what they are reporting from the propaganda side of things. I have my Intel NCO watch it to do his analysis as well.
It is about the most boring thing you can imagine. Its like the reporters for the America version know they are working for scumbags and hate it, but just do the job so they have a paycheck.
Dirtbag.
Yeah but it was his intentions that were good so the truth doesn’t matter !!!
No, what matters is that CNN a couple of ratings points during the Ferguson mess using unqualified “experts”, so the end justifies the means as usual.
I think the word they were looking for was, pathological. As in, liar.
He was only doing it to “honor” forensic pathologists.
Your Creepy Uncle…LMAO!
Also, if Obama had a son who was a Forensic Pathologist Assistant…
Jonn,
It only gets better if you read the original CNN story online. This zipper head signed off on a couple of reports without approval from the real pathology doctors. This in turn allowed a few rapists and a couple of murderers to keep walking the streets.
He even has stolen $$ from folks looking for continuing education credits to maintain license, by teaching and saying he was certified when he wasn’t. All around scum bag.
Never was a Nancy Grace fan (her voice really, really grates on me). Having said that, perhaps Parcells influenced her cheap shot at Darren Wilson.
http://www.inquisitr.com/1640399/darren-wilson-nancy-grace/
Insult to injury, Darren Wilson is about to be released from Ferguson PD w/ no severance package – just final pay. Good luck to him…his wife has a baby on the way also.
Is anyone here at TAH really surprized?
I often watch CNN and MSLSD for the purpose of gathering OPEN SOURCE intel.
The CNN coverage of the Ferguson circus, along with all others, was discusting. The media fed the fire and more specifically CNN and the correspondances were clearly on the side of the poor little boy.
To hear that CNN had this loon on supports my position that these media outlets are no longer reporting the news, they are making the news, facilitating it and forming opinions for those who are too dumb to know right from wrong.
But what do I know?
At this point, I can truly say that I am quite glad I do not have a working TV and will not get one for the foreseeable future. If the media as a general group thinks it’s okay to engage in witch hunts and ignore facts in favor of sensationalism, they are no better than tabloids and lynch mobs.
If you recall the macabre behavior of some network reporters in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and the completely off-the-wall things they said and did, you know what I’m talking about.
They were wrong on so many things during that mess, and they were wildly wrong in this media-generated display of violence. Without the presence of lights, cameras, reporters and the perceived promise of national coverage, I doubt seriously that the events in Ferguson would have got more than a sideways glance.
It’s not that we should ignore such goings-on, because hiding your head in the sand over something like Ferguson won’t make it go away. It’s more like the uptick in it was a display put on for the cameras, which should have been stopped before that began.
How many people sat through the hours and hours of reports on London burning in 2011, or the Arab Spring riots in 2013, or the 24-hour news coverage of Desert Storm by C-SPAN? Not many. No, if there wasn’t some kind of violence going on, with blood spilled everywhere, the TV set went dark or changed channels.
These events become more and more pandering to the lowest common denominator and the god of gossip and sensationalism.
Frankly, my sensationalism gene has been overfed since 1968.
I thought he looked like a graduate of the Dennis Chevalier School of Aviation and Forensic Stuff.
Jonn, is that affiliated with “The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too” ?