Censoring helps the narrative. When the media does a story titled "Far-Right Patriot Front Group Unfurls Anti-Semitic Banner Over Freeway. Local Residents Outraged." and shows video of the blurred out "slur", followed by interviews with people in town about how they are SHOCKED that "hate has come to our community" - people are meant take a certain message away from that.

If they just told people the banner said "Jewish people should get vaccinated" most reactions would be head scratching or mild chuckles.

On the other side of the coin, when parents groups read pornographic books on the record at school board meetings - the exact books that are in school libraries - it's reported as protestors causing a disturbance. If they actually broadcast the entirety of the books contents to the wider public, school officials getting fired would be the least of their worries.

Censoring helps the narrative. When the media does a story titled "Far-Right Patriot Front Group Unfurls Anti-Semitic Banner Over Freeway. Local Residents Outraged." and shows video of the blurred out "slur", followed by interviews with people in town about how they are SHOCKED that "hate has come to our community" - people are meant take a certain message away from that.

If they just told people the banner said "Jewish people should get vaccinated" most reactions would be head scratching or mild chuckles.