Have you watched live broadcasts and videos of the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles? Seen the burning cars? Watched the police and national guard being pelted with a variety of items, including bricks and rocks? Seen The massive, often profane (like so many of participants’ signs) vandalism? Heard about the looting and damaging of retail establishments?
Well, evidently CNN and MSNBC haven’t noticed much of this.
From Bill D’Agostino’s article at the Media Research Center’s newsbusters.org website:
MRC analysts looked at all coverage on CNN and MSNBC from June 7 through June 11 that aired between 5:00 am and 11:59 pm ET, finding 211 instances in which anchors, guests, or reporters described the riots in LA as “peaceful,” or some permutation thereof (details below). CNN was responsible for 123 such utterances, while MSNBC aired the remaining 88.
Over the weekend of June 7, both networks invited on a cavalcade of Democratic officials from California, offering them a free platform to allege that the unfolding riots were “mostly peaceful.” By Sunday, June 8, many of the journalists themselves had begun repeating those same claims — even as images of looted stores and torched cars appeared on screen.
Reporters attempted to justify their claims by arbitrarily separating the peaceful and violent members of the same crowd. The rioters were framed exclusively as “rogue actors,” or “lone wolves,” and there was never any suggestion that they might share common cause with the nonviolent individuals accompanying them
At the height of the Los Angeles riot, 211 individual instances where they referred to this mass terrorism/insurrection as “peaceful”.
Tell me: how can you believe these so-called “journalists”? And not on just the Los Angeles riots.
If you can’t trust them to accurately report what you can see with your own eyes, how can you possibly believe them about anything else?
Just asking….
