It seems to me that a for-profit media structure makes situations like this inevitable. What do they need? Money. How do they get it? By getting people to tune in, click, and forward to others. How can they accomplish it? By making the new interesting. Dress it up in hearsay, pull out experts and ask for opinions. Hell, read what random people post on Twitter.

Media hasn't produced factual analysis for decades. What they do produce only incites and encourages spectacles like Ferguson. It will get worse before it gets better.

At least the grand jury is out. The entire narrative can be disseminated. Too late for Ferguson, unfortunately.