Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors | Techdirt
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"... we’ve been saying over and over and over again that the most important thing is telling the truth. As Mike Brock keeps saying, 'two plus two equals four' and you can’t let them get away with telling you otherwise.
This isn’t just about getting the facts straight for their own sake. When media coverage systematically misrepresents who is initiating violence and who is responding to it, it provides cover for further escalation.
@mmasnick, 2025
"We have to be clear on what ground truth is, and that requires that the media stop accepting propagandist framing."
@mmasnick, 2025
For the last few years, legacy news media have been singing songs of their great social importance as fact-checking institutions that surface important information in a timely. Here's their chance to prove it. So far they've been less than impressive.
I was listening to The Rest is Politics the other day, and chuckled at their claim that comparing Orange Stalin's regime to Xi Jinping's is "false equivalence"!
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/132-former-head-of-mi6-russia-china-and-trump-sir-alex-younger/
What's happening in LA now is disturbingly similar to what was happening in Hong Kong before the pandemic. The idea that the US remains a functioning democracy, while judges and state senators are being arrested to stop them doing their job, is wishful self-delusion.
@servelan Not exactly the first time that's happened.
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