The First Rule of MSM News Coverage
Here is the first rule of “mainstream” news coverage in America
reports
Andrew Klavan (thanks to
Ed Driscoll):
Whenever the prejudices and illusions of left-wingers are
confirmed by an individual incident, the incident is treated as
representative; when those prejudices and illusions are contradicted,
the incident is considered an aberration — and treating it as
representative is deemed hateful.
It was by satirizing that rule that Breitbart’s mustache-twirling
evil-doer Ben Shapiro once again got himself in hot water this week. The
flagrantly brainy provocateur ran a headline
describing the heart-shredding murder in Virginia of a local TV
reporter and her cameraman: “Black, Gay Reporter Murders Straight, White
Journalists — Media Blame the Gun.” The headline violated mainstream
media protocol by being completely true while running counter to the
leftist narrative. The two straight white people had in fact been killed
by a mentally ill black gay Obama supporter who saw micro-aggressions
everywhere and played the race card whenever he could.
… When a police officer is forced to kill a street thug, he’s a white officer killing a black teen. When yet another Islamist murders an infidel or a fellow Muslim, he’s just some random
guy. When a racist lunatic kills black people, the Confederate flag
must come down. I’m still waiting for calls to ban the rainbow flag
after the Virginia incident, or for a mainstream discussion on whether
the whole idea of micro-aggressions is the chimeric imagining of
spoiled, childish, over-indulged brats who wouldn’t know oppression if
it beheaded them or… no, wait, that’s actually the only option.
I’m not a Donald Trump supporter because I don’t think he represents
my beliefs, but the success of his loud-mouthery should send a message
to the mainstream news media. The message is this: You lie to us every day and we hate you for it. I’d like to add, Your dishonest narrative isn’t fooling anybody, but I’m sure it is. But not all the people, and not all of the time.
