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In the case of Blake, though, a lot of the big media outlets were part of the misinformation. There were a lot of headlines with the word "unarmed" in them even though the facts weren't clear at the time. And then in addition to media outlets running disputed facts that were later proven to be wrong, many political and social leaders repeated the unarmed talking point as well. Those initial headlines and stories were a big part of the huge national response to this story. If the story was about an armed man with a warrant who had been shot, would the Bucks and the NBA have gotten involved? Would people have donated millions of dollars to Blake? Would there have been massive protests? It's all possible, but I've got to think it's much less likely. (To be clear, I'm not saying the protests are the fault of the media, just noting the response probably would have been less significant.)The two things I see as fair criticisms worth discussing with the media response to stories like this are how they can better handle muddy facts in the initial reporting and then how they can better clarify stories when the reporting turns out to have included errors. The current business model seems to favor speed and hyperbole to drive clicks and get more eyeballs on a story. And the impact of the first impressions of a story seem to be way stickier than any correction or edit made after the fact. Case in point - even after the Kenosha DA laid out all the facts that were uncovered after a lengthy investigation, most people's reactions were based on their initial understanding of the situation, which was based on disputed/incorrect points. Once the facts did come out, most notably that Blake did have a knife, there was little to no coverage of this very important detail now being confirmed. I think Washington Post was one of the big outlets that still used the word unarmed in a headline after the DA's decision, almost as if the writers there didn't listen to the press conference that laid out all the information that had been gathered. Any correction that came once the facts were clear was much quieter, much less impactful than all the initial, misleading coverage. Shouldn't the truth be the biggest story? Or is it OK to just move on without ensuring that the public really does get the whole truth?It's not fair to expect perfection from journalists, because they're human, and they'll make some mistakes here and there. But outside of the Rolling Stone debacle, how often do we hear about the correction making the same splash as the error? There has to be a way to do this better, to hold up the facts higher than the splashy headline, right?
Personally, I think if the cop hadn't shot Jacob Blake in the back 7 times that would have prevented a lot more death, injury, and destruction than anything the media did.
well then, let's take this one more step back; if blake would have heeded the cops commands, he would not have been shot in the back 7 times and that would have prevented a lot more death, injury and destruction the media would have had to do to perpetrate it's agenda
There should be a lot of dead or paralyzed white people out in Washington DC right now, then.
maybe, but the media you guys rode in on could tell us a lot more. at least they seem to be arresting and prosecuting more rather than arresting and promptly allowing them to leave out the back door to rejoin their fellow anarchists. the media we are left with is all wearing the bumbling biden and heels up harris jerseys so don't expect too much from their side. it is funny how BLM and antifa like the cops and national guard now though as they were just last week fryin em like bacon. if trump had 25-30,000 troops on capital grounds they'd be excoriating him for being a chinese, nope, russian dictator showing off it's military in red square.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
This part was interesting:The one thing that the video is clear about, is that after opening the car door - Blake did no lunging or "driving a knife" at a police officer. Watch the video again yourself. https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1297698630875385856
Great. Now even the mods are arguing.
Explained by the Kenosha DA, entered in evidence is not just the officer's view that Blake reached left with an object, but also a bystander who saw the exactly that. The DA explains the angle of the video and how it misses this movement.I beg of anyone who speaks of this episode to watch the Kenosha DA painstakingly go through all the evidence they gathered. All the other anecdotes, media, newspaper, TV are simply non-authoritative blather.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0CRt0_vYg
The DA's detailed explanation of known facts and what led to the decision to not charge Reskey has 18K views. What should we expect from our sources of news in situations like this?
No offense, but you're putting too much trust in the Police and the DA. I mean, I agree that it would be difficult to file charges against the officer from the state's perspective. However, that doesn't mean that the information released by the police / DA / "bystander" is 100% on the up & up.Watch making a murderer. Forget the latest conviction, Avery sat in jail for 18 years because the police/DA were convinced he was a bad dude and raped/attempted to murder a woman. I generally trust police, but I can't particularly blame people that don't. When the police and prosecutors are aligned, rightly or wrongly, it's really difficult to overcome that.
What should we expect they do? Strive for accuracy and seek a common truth. They won't. We're screwed. Arby's.
This. So very much this.The Bush-era quote, assumed to be from Karl Rove, shows that the right-wing had exactly the opposite in mind:"The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."The right-wing, through 1,500 AM radio stations and cable news, have very successfully created a non-reality-based reality for their followers, one on which Hillary murdered Vince Foster, Obama was born in Kenya, and Benghazi was a plot by, again, Hillary Clinton. The last four years have massively accelerated the disinformation to the point where now the perceived enemies of the right-wing are said to be cannibalistic pedophiles engaged in a worldwide trafficking ring to drink the blood of children and 30% of Republicans believe it.Millions have been brainwashed. Ashli Babbitt got sucked into this alternate reality and died because of it. A 22-year old who stormed the Capitol and stole either a laptop or hard drive from Pelosi's office is on the run from authorities; her mother said she started acting strangely after participating in far-right message boards. Just two of the millions of victims.Sacha Baron Cohen of all people said (perhaps quoting someone else, I am not sure),"Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march."This is a massive, massive issue for the United States.
Congrats on missing his point and falling into the easy “it’s clearly just the other side’s fault”. Very on brand and emblematic of the sh**show this country is in, beyond just the most recent fiasco.
No offense, but you're putting too much trust in the Police and the DA.
"Cancel culture problem" really isn't a problem. But I get your point.