Remember two weeks ago when we were talking about the shootings in Atlanta? Remember how there was serious consideration for new gun control legislation? Then the shootings in Colorado happened… and all that coverage suddenly stopped. Why?
The answer is: “It didn’t fit the narrative.” What the press was more interested in was NOT the shooting, or the epidemic of gun violence, it was white men shooting Asians. Right after the headline in the New York Times article were the words, “Six of the victims were Asian, the authorities said, raising fears that there may have been a racial motivation to the crimes.” The shooter? Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white guy.
When ten people were gunned down in one of the most liberal (and most federal government employee living) towns in America, naturally that made headlines. But then they found the shooter. Sure, from the mugshot, it looks like a white guy, but his name is Ahmad al Aliwi Alissa, a Syrian immigrant who has lived almost his entire life in Colorado. Suddenly the press wasn’t that interested, and once the horror was over, they picked up and moved on.
Why? Because they want to show white guys killing minorities, preferably blacks. That’s what gets ratings. To quote the book Bias by Bernard Goldberg, a reporter who worked for CBS News for decades, “the true bias of the media is towards conflict.” I used to say they didn’t care about left or right, but rather what made headlines, but that’s not true anymore. Contrary to popular belief, mass shootings don’t keep eyeballs on 24-hour news coverage–the “impending race war” does. If minorities are killing white people, or worse, minorities are killing minorities, that doesn’t help keep viewers. They are appealing to their audience, and their audience believes “white man bad, dark man good.” They will tune out anything that contradicts that.
If you’ve read an article about a subject you know well, you’ve probably noticed that it is usually wrong. Take this screen shot from the AP, generally considered one of the most balanced news sources. On the same screen, they have two articles: “Indian farmers mark 100th day of protests with road blockade.” And right frickin’ below it, is “Indian farmers protest new laws with road block.” Well, gee… it’s not “new” if they’ve been at it for three months! The finance and the economy editors aren’t talking to each other. Their job is to get new content up as fast as possible. The headline gets the clicks, the clicks show advertisers that they get eyeballs, and the advertisers buy ads on their feed.
Let’s keep with the story of mass shootings and take another news story you didn’t read. On March 24th, guy walks into a Publix grocery store in Atlanta, Georgia. The manager goes into the bathroom and a shopper notices that guy suddenly taking out body armor and several guns. Manager calls the police and they get there quick enough to stop the guy from causing another mass shooting. it didn’t make the headlines for two reasons. One, no one died. Remember, the bias of the media is towards conflict. Second, the name of the would-be shooter was Rico Abednego Neequaye Marley. If you read the NYT article, you can’t guess the race of the shooter. Rico Marley could be anybody. “Neequaye” is a dead giveaway that the shooter is African-American. Doesn’t fit the narrative, doesn’t make the headlines.
Do we have a problem with gun violence in America, absolutely. Do we have an impending race war? No. In Chicago, where there are more murders than anywhere else in America, more African-Americans kill their fellow minority than anyone else. That doesn’t make headlines, but mostly because it’s a daily occurrence. My fear is that if the media keep pounding the drumbeat of “White Men Are Out to Kill You,” minorities will believe it, and will decide “I’m gonna get them before they get me.” You don’t want that.
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If anyone thinks psy ops is conspiracy talk, some may need to ask themselves why, oh why, are there so many people & “talking heads” within the mainstream media that hold or held CIA positions & why journalists have covered stories at the request of the CIA, not those whom publish their works. Most don’t know this, because, well, it’s rarely covered in common news (left or right) sources. They can look it up (for now). Just what is the end game & whose plan is all this anger spreading & why?
This whole thing is exactly what I meant about lines getting blurred between reality and conspiracy. Why would the media stir up a race war that common sense says NOBODY is truly going to win?
It’s fairly reasonably to suspect some sort of ulterior agenda. I can’t completely rule it out. At the same time however, Occam’s Razor says the most likely explanation is greed and ignorance. It gets ratings, they think they’re fighting for social justice and that they’ll be personally immune to the fallout. That last one is a common misbelief among wrong-doers.
Free advice though: be careful phrasing things nowadays. It’s far too easy to be labeled a racist if you say that black people are being manipulated for ratings.
Silk, I try to walk the line carefully between interesting and controversy, and this one is about as controversial as I get. It costs a reader nothing to call me racist, so it costs me nothing to ignore them. If someone tries to get me fired from my day job for it, I suddenly have an ironclad lawsuit against my employer that gets me set for life. So I’m not worried. 😉
This article is spot on. When I moved to the south, I expected more white prejudice. Not having been raised there, I was looking for it. Instead I saw more blacks killing blacks than whites killing blacks and that has been going on a long time. I also try to remain bipartisan and anti conspiracy theorist.
From personal experience, I’ve seen the media manipulate news. At one time my daughter was a news reporter for a major network affiliate, so I’m not blowing smoke. It is done.
There doesn’t need to be a race war, but the handwriting is on the wall. There has to be and there is a motive though.
Creating a race war will divide this country like no other issue out there because that’s who we are, a nation of diversity. To allow ourselves to be so manipulated, we will see the realization of the old adage “United we stand divided we Fall” come to be and this is exactly what the proverbial “they” are counting on if we don’t smarten up. We can play by their rules or be who we really are, strong and together. Is there prejudice and injustices? Yes there is, but we don’t have to create more by directing our focus toward looking for it.
Wake UP America!!!