Negative Space: media frenzy
- ABC News: Toyota targeted Gabby Giffords!
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Diane Sawyer ABC News special claims Toyota targeted popular congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
- How do we keep this from happening again?
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Whenever there’s a tragedy, there is a small cadre of people who frantically push solutions that never worked in the past and wouldn’t have stopped the current tragedy. They’re in a hurry to act before the facts come out that would let us craft a real response. Real prevention means solving real problems. That means waiting for the facts.
- Markos Moulitsas accuses President of assassinating Arizona rep
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Daily Kos chief claims President Obama’s exhortation to followers to “bring a gun” triggered assassination attempt.
- Media Scare Machine: The Sky is Falling
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The media never told us to hoard toilet paper or cancel flights. They just told us that everything was shutting down and that we’d die if we flew. Totally different things.
- The media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- The media’s Trump hatred causes mass murder
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The media’s desperate need to link Trump to all crimes may be encouraging mass murder.
- Showboat media and showboat killers
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Showboat killers share a very important trait with the news media: they both want to become the top news story, and neither really care why they’re talked about.
- Vicious intimidation by the extreme left
- And by “extreme”, I mean anyone who is trying to blame a peaceful conservative protest movement for the actions of a deranged madman. If you’re doing that, you’re extreme.
- You can’t play an honest media
- Sarah Palin gets credit, when she’s not being accused of being unintelligent, of being smart enough to play the media for fools. But she isn’t: she’s telling everyone what she plans to do, why she did what she did; the media just isn’t listening. Then they write something stupid and the LA Times writes about how well she “played” them.
But you can’t play a media that’s doing its job.
More Information
- The list of bogus ‘hate crimes’ in Trump era is long
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“In the wake of the arrest of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging his own racist and homophobic attack, here are just some of the other crimes that have been given prominent play by the media since the 2016 election—often accompanied by politicians decrying, ‘This is America today’—that turned out to be frauds.”
