That’s nothing new. This is, perhaps, a new low in how badly they’re doing it, though. At least “fiery but mostly peaceful” attempted to downplay the prevalence of the behavior.
They're trying to get clicks because journos love posting fire, dead bodies, and blood because of the attention; but they also have to repeat the line for their masters.
Normally, they'd go one of 3 ways:
Not report on something to downplay the violence and claim there's no evidence
Ignore the line to get money from showing violence.
Use one news station to show violence, and a different one to ignore it, with both generating profits for the conglomerate that owns both of them
Instead they're going full cognitive dissonance mode where they show you the violence to get the clicks, then tell you it isn't happening to get the donor money, and they pull the same trick on every station!
It's not something I'd do either but there's a big difference between lighting a dumpster on fire because you're drunk and think it would be cool and torching one because you want to overthrow the US government, even if they basically look the same.
That's insane the news is actually carrying water for criminal behavior.
That’s nothing new. This is, perhaps, a new low in how badly they’re doing it, though. At least “fiery but mostly peaceful” attempted to downplay the prevalence of the behavior.
It's new how open they are about it.
They're trying to get clicks because journos love posting fire, dead bodies, and blood because of the attention; but they also have to repeat the line for their masters.
Normally, they'd go one of 3 ways:
Instead they're going full cognitive dissonance mode where they show you the violence to get the clicks, then tell you it isn't happening to get the donor money, and they pull the same trick on every station!
where have you been for the past 20 years?
The movie "Network" came out almost 50 years ago. I recall similar complaints about newspapers dating back to the invention of the printing press.
That's got the be the most insane thing I've heard from journos in a long time.
Give it a week, or 3 days.
It would be funny if he was being ironic and not serious.
I think they're trying "lol look at what white ppl do when their sportsball team wins" as a defense.
I never got the turning car bit, even in my normie sports guy phase.
It's not something I'd do either but there's a big difference between lighting a dumpster on fire because you're drunk and think it would be cool and torching one because you want to overthrow the US government, even if they basically look the same.