Looks like a lot of people want to hang him now rather than wait for a trial.

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83. What you're talking about here isn't really about this case at all

It's about the 24-hour news cycle and political message board culture.

DU had decided that it's going to talk about Trayvon 24-7 for a while. That's fine and it's natural. It's pretty much par for the course now. This board gets ahold of a topic and shakes it until nothing else can come out of it, much as MSM outlets do, because like them, we have 24 hours a day to fill.

When you're talking about something nonstop, eventually you run out of things to say. Just look at the cable news pundits and the Republican primaries. They are pretty much done with the analysis and this even comes out into the open sometimes when they are forced to talk about it for hours on end.

Most of DU thinks Zimmerman is guilty of a crime and should be charged. With the absence of new evidence but 24 hours a day to fill, what happens is that people end up saying 'he's guilty' over and over and over. And when that happens, you do get kind of a mob effect, or at least something that looks like a mob. But it's less insidious than it seems. Because in the end, this isn't real life, it's the internet. Nobody here will have any bearing on what actually happens.