"The News"
What makes something "newsworthy?"
Is it shock value, like Trump going on a racist, xenophobic rant targeting Somalians? Despite the fact that this man has shown he’s blatantly racist. This is supposed to be shocking. To anyone paying attention, he’s a fucking racist. It is known. It’s been known. The fact that reporters can say that him saying racy things is “expected,” but outright racist and xenophobic is a surprise — on his initial run, he said Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, like what? [...]
But the hundreds of Palestinians still murdered in a genocide draped in a “ceasefire,” they’re un-people, and the ceasefire is holding because those were un-bombs and not-bullets. Lebanon is bombed and invaded by the IOF under the ceasefire flag. Also not news, ’cause, you know, un-people. Syria, invaded, too, also un-people. The 83 people murdered by the US off Venezuela’s coast, only the conduct is news ’cause maybe or maybe not, Pete did a “double tap,” as Jesse Eisenberg would say. But the murders themselves and the flagrant violation of the UN charter that bans the threats of force and the use of force on any sovereign nation, unless approved by the UN, and in case it’s unclear, they did not approve this threat and use of force against Venezuela — this is not news. [...]