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Monday, July 13, 2020

Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide

A man drove his car last Saturday onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade.

Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there’s one thing you won’t learn from their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white.

NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by “right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.” It quotes a researcher about how these right-wingers were “trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement.”

The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kelete. But you’ll find scant mention of the driver’s ethnicity in mainstream media coverage. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is very difficult to convince most Americans that the media is propaganda.
It is an organ of the intelligence operations against the population.
It is mind control plain and simple.

But most believe they are not being influenced unduly.
There are none so enslaved as those who are convinced they are not.

Anonymous said...

Another black man going to prison and where is the outrage?

Anonymous said...

Its a free country they tell me all the time it is

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Anonymous said...

The mainstream media is racist

TheRealRay said...

Post/reply of the year candidate...