Why so many hate the media
A couple of weeks ago a guy called Jake Lang (a right wing Internet troll) held a protest outside the NY Mayor’s residence called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City”. There were a couple of dozen of his supporters and some 100 counter-protesters.
Two young men traveled from New Jersey with home-made IEDs and three them into the protesters. If they had not malfunctioned, they may have killed scores of people. They claimed allegiance to ISIS shouting “Allah Akhbar”.
How did the media report all this? Politico talked about the rise in Islamophobia. The Mayor condemned the protesters, and didn’t even mention the bomb throwers were not the protesters, but counter protesters.
CNN created a trove of memes as they made it sounds like a little adventure gone wrong.
ABC calls the guys who tried to murder scores activists.
National Review sums up other media responses:
NBC New York got an early start on what would quickly become an overwhelming trend, telling a curiously noncommittal story over the weekend: “Multiple arrests made after ‘suspicious devices’ found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during anti-Islam rally and counterprotest.” The Daily News’ headline whimpered, “Protestors throw smoking improvised device, clash over Jake Lang pig roast at ‘anti-Islamification’ rally at Gracie Mansion.” The tone-setting New York Times itself wrestled with curiously tortured locutions: “Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor’s House.”
What they all have in common is downplaying the seriousness of the terrorist attack, and doing their best to leave readers ignorant as to who is to blame.
The highlight of stupidity has to be Walter Masterton, a counter protester. One of the terrorist literally used his body for leverage to throw the IED which if it had worked would have killed him and most of the people there. And what does he say:
So he says that the terrorists who just tried to kill him are welcome in New York. He really is too stupid to be allowed to breed.
One good aspect covered on Twitter was the Police Chief who sprung into action. No back room bureaucrat this guy. People commented the photo looks like a shot from the credits of a TV show.
That is leading from the front.
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