Opinion What Happened to the Media Inciting People to Riot Everyday?

[SmilinDesperado]

The media drummed it up out of thin air. Whether the democrats were a part of it, I don't know but they certainly latched on to it.

America has been becoming less racist by the day for decades and the media took a couple of piss poor policing situations and drummed it up into an "everyone that doesn't agree with us is racist" narrative.

Out of thin air would imply that it was completely made up. That there was absolutely zero reason to believe what they believe.
You can disagree with some conclusions that people have made, say things aren't balanced, and information is being left out, but that it was "drummed up out of thin air" is obviously false.

You're also biased in how you're presenting what you saw. The narrative was not "this country is more racist than ever", it's that "in 2020, this shouldn't be happening at all--why are there no laws stopping this abuse".
We can argue about how extensive the problem is, not whether or not the problem exists.


And for the thread topic, you are ignoring all of the obvious reasons why these stories got more attention in the first place----VIDEO, social media, and a 24 hour news cycle. We have a 9 minute video of a cop sitting on a guy's neck in broad daylight. That image is going to get stuck in peoples' heads. And when more and more videos come out, it creates a feeling that this is something that is always happening. That's not all on the media. That's how people feel. Blacks have felt like this BEFORE 2020. This isn't some new feeling.
Add to all of this, when the POTUS makes some unpopular comments on these sensitive issues, it's going to bring more attention.
That's not the media "drumming up things out of thin air".

 

[SakurabasEar]

This is an utter lie. The same media Biden is supposedly in bed with are all against him on Afghanistan. Knocking him every single day since this started.


Can you at least stick to a narrative and have it make sense.

First off, he still has plenty of defenders on afghanistan.

Secondly, the MSM only started to actually do their jobs after it became utterly clear how big of a mess the pullout was. It was nearly indefensible.

Obviously, there are going to be exceptions. But a majority of the time his backers in the media will continue to deflect and mitigate on his behalf.

The funniest part about this is how often biden snapps at reporters (reporters that represent the same outlets that pander to him) for otherwise normal questioning.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

First off, he still has plenty of defenders on afghanistan.

Secondly, the MSM only started to actually do their jobs after it became utterly clear how big of a mess the pullout was. It was nearly indefensible.

Obviously, there are going to be exceptions. But a majority of the time his backers in the media will continue deflect and mitigate on his behalf.

The funniest part about this is how often biden snapps at reporters (reporters that represent the same outlets that pander to him) for otherwise normal questioning.

so by your logic the msm isn’t in bed with Biden. If they were they’d defend him on everything he’s doing. That’s not the case though.

 

[ineverpost]

Are you kidding me?

Every time a black criminal was killed while resisting arrest they played the story non stop.

Many many people were convinced that the police were a death squadron murdering every black man they could find without mercy.

Many people are still convinced of that today.

Most rioters are young people and most young people are not news watching demographics. They def spread news via social media but it isn't monetized by the big media corporations (it is monetized by facebook, that's another issue). The media "inciting" is just the media being reactionary to social media which is kicking the shit out of them in the under 30s groups.

 

[ShadowRun]

Speaking of the media … there was the thread the other day about this of course it’s gone. People read the original headlines and don’t know it was full of shit. That’s been the left media last few years just run with whatever story right away and quiet updates that debunks the news.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

You think these things are coincidences?

A guy that majored in political science had an interest in the CIA, interned there, and instead of taking the CIA route, he went into journalism and covering politics for CNN---and this is evidence that he has actually been a CIA agent for the past 30 years, and his job is to brainwash the 38-82 year olds every week night at 7 pm? Is Don Lemon one too? Is there some secret gay CIA news squad?


And Tucker Carlson being rejected from the CIA is proof that he is also an agent?????? Tucker Carlson....CIA?????

Get help. Seriously.

 

[lifelessheap]

This. The media was caught lying multiple times making stuff up.
The media backed awful people for no other reason than to spite the president.
The media has been on this since the trans bathroom nonsense in the mid 10s. They gaslight and call everyone who disagrees a bigot. Now it’s reached a retarded level and I feel like perhaps some reasonable people are pumping the breaks

Dishonest media?!

 

[S Class]

That's a very well reasoned moderate response.

Yes, yes it is.

 

[tangata motu'a]

The main reason is Donald Trump. He was the one most responsible for the racial unrest. Once he was out of office, the racist rhetoric disappeared, minorities knew things wuld get better and the media no longer had to report on the newest/latest way Trump was going to make a racist comment

 

[RogerB08]

Ah yes everyone's (especially on the right) favorite whipping boy, "the media"; that enormous umbrella under which everything falls.

 

[ElKarlo]

It's almost like there isn't a loud mouthed divisive president in power that brought attention to racial issues and would pour gasoline on fires, which resulted in more media coverage.


Say whatever you want about dementia Joe, but he doesn't talk about things, which means there is no controversy for the media to cover. And when Joe does talk about testy things, he often gives the standard milquetoast politician answers....not exciting, and not worthy of media coverage.
These protests and riots are as much a product of police shootings as they are the reaction to the police shootings.

BLM formed and existed when Obama was president. The Ferguson riots were in 2014...while Obama was president. It was covered by the media.
You don't have a sustained media campaign on this because you don't have a bunch of conservative idiots in power throwing gas on the fires.

No the media had gone insane before that
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_R... Rape on Campus" is,entirety on April 5, 2015.

 

[ElKarlo]

Dishonest media?!

Lol I know

 

[sangreporsangre]

Who said this? You put it in quotes, so who was saying that it was a good thing that people were gathering, and compared it to COVID?

Are there large protests going on right now like there were last year?
You're obfuscating the issue, and trying to insert race in an argument that isn't a racial argument.

The protests were about racial discrimination by police and the justice system. So obviously race was the focus of the argument. COVID, vaccinations, and masks are about science and public health. Why would race be the central point of conversation when it isn''t a conversation about race? It's a part of the conversation, but at 10% of the US population, it isn't black people that should be the focus when it comes to COVID.
That minorities may have less access to vaccines and medical treatment and a fear/mistrust of government is an example of systemic racism---true. And what? Why would it make sense for that to be the center of the conversation?
And why do you think this point has not been brought up already?

It was all over the media, for example there was some letter that was being touted signed by a bunch of doctors saying that it was important to go out and protest (even though at the time it was illegal to gather in public) because racism is a bigger health issue than covid. Here we had our doctors who were on TV giving updates for the pandemic give us the same story, that racism is the biggest issue and it's ok to go out and protest. And then the sleazy politicians took it and ran with it, standing shoulder to shoulder in massive crowds with screaming people when just days before they were pushing draconian measures on people gathering in parks and stuff like that. Now they're enacting policies that will prevent a big % of black people from eating or working in restaurants or other indoor spaces, how can racism not be the biggest issue here? So many of my black co-workers might lose their jobs next month for not complying with the injection mandate. The impact of these policies is racist by the definitions we've been working with so of course this should be the main angle played by media and politicians but it isn't for some reason. If you can't see the contradiction here you're either trying very hard not to see it or you're just retarded. Going forward I will just assume that white liberals who push for the injection mandates are just racists who want less black people around.

 

[Pinyin]

The media never incited people to riot

 

[HereticBD]

"Who said protests had to be peaceful?"

- Chris Cuomo, CNN media hack

 

[nhbbear]

The fuck they didn’t fan the flames. Riots are good for ratings and political ends

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

I can't see any inflammatory stories recently trying to get People of Color angry and out in the street.

It's like.......

That agenda has been completed?

Even on Social Media. There's nothing. No Anti-Cop Hate Speak in my Instagram feed anymore.

It's like they got over it. Only Covid and Anti-Vaccine stuff now.

the election is over

 

[ElKarlo]

Speaking of the media … there was the thread the other day about this of course it’s gone. People read the original headlines and don’t know it was full of shit. That’s been the left media last few years just run with whatever story right away and quiet updates that debunks the news.

Yep. The outright lies made by the media has become bold.

 

[Mr Holmes]

there was the thread the other day about this of course it’s gone.

It got merged with the mega thread.

 

[TryggeTryggvar]

The main reason is Donald Trump. He was the one most responsible for the racial unrest. Once he was out of office, the racist rhetoric disappeared, minorities knew things wuld get better and the media no longer had to report on the newest/latest way Trump was going to make a racist comment

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