@darklight4 said:
@drunk_pi: Are you mentally challenged, this has nothing to do with the fucking government or left or right. My comment was about how the media forces a narrative on various stories. How often in a police shooting involving a black individual do the media turn it into a race war instead of giving people the facts they play with emotions just for views/clicks. The hit pieces on Pewdiepie is another example. The innumerable times they have a one sided interview where the opposition can't defend themselves. The media sucks and until they clean up their act people are going to distrust them even more.
Once again this has nothing to do with politicians, Trump or any other fantasy you conjure up this is simply the media being shit. If I have to explain this one more time you truly are lost cause.
How does the media force a narrative on various stories? The whole point of the news is to offer a story of something happening either locally, nationally, and/or globally. Yes there will be a bias and yes some stories are over-reported and others are under-reported.
As for police shootings of black individuals, sometimes the media does paint a broad brush and other times, the media tends to paint the narrative that crime is being committed by minorities. It's a two way street. That being said, if a police officer shoots someone and the circumstances are murky, of course there is going to be outrage considering how the police have treated minorities since Jim Crow. It's something has been ongoing in American history but the only difference is that it's being reported more often. Should the media not cover it and ignore potential abuse from police departments? In fact, it doesn't necessarily have to be about the police, it can be about anyone and anything.
I'll agree that the media has its issues but to suggest that suppression of the media is a good thing or that the media is somehow conjuring falsehoods is ridiculous.
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