You beclown yourself when beheading a woman gets less outrage than the Colorado baker who didn't want to make a cake for a same sex wedding.
— Mike (@ThePantau) September 26, 2014
The horrific beheading that took place at a plant in Oklahoma is being discussed at length on social media, but how will the mainstream media approach all the details of this story, if at all?
Here’s the take from Ace of Spades:
I am curious to see how intensely the media embargoes this story, which presents Narratives they hate.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
I'm kind of rooting for them to do the full embargo– because they would be so massively discredited it would destroy them.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
But I imagine they know that, so they'll give it very, very light play. Just so they can say "We mentioned that."
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
The media hates the "dark news," the "undernews," as @kausmickey calls it, that flies around the blogosphere, without their permission.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
But this news only flies around the blogosphere because the media embargoes it.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
They are then creating "dark news" themselves, by their refusal to cover obviously newsworthy stories (Gosnell, for example).
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
Or refusing to report that serial groper Bob Filner was not just the mayor of SD, but a 20-year Congressman and ally of Nancy Pelosi.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
They impose an embargo on the truth, and then they scratch their heads at why people don't believe them or seek out alternate channels.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
Pretty simple, really: Because we know you're fucking lying to us.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
btw I reject the media's self-flattery that they just wish to avoid a Panic.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
The media is willing to go full Carnival Barker for Panic when it serves the Narrative:https://t.co/7aH6ha0sU2https://t.co/FUddiX2GRM
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
J. Stack, who identified himself as a communist in his suicide note, was called an "anti-government protester" (wink) and given Panic play.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
Sarah Palin was all but named a co-conspirator in the Gabby Giffords shooting. When it turned out the killer hadn't even read her…
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
…the media adroitly changed its claim from Palin directly influencing Laughner to a "general climate of uncivil speech" spurring him.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
That said, no, I don't personally want the media to do its Carnival Barker Panic-Play antics in this case, either.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
Let me propose that people will speculate and become more panicked when they know they are not being told the truth.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 26, 2014
Bingo.
Will the mainstream media shine a powerful light on all the facts of the horrible murder in Oklahoma? Confidence is low:
@jodeenicks @AceofSpadesHQ Local TV (Los Angeles) is oohing and ahhing over the Apple iPhone software update.
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) September 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/senorlamella/status/515540418335756289
@aceofspadeshq I think the narrative wheel was spun and landed on "disgruntled".
— Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) September 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/jodeenicks/status/515543548431966208
https://twitter.com/Drake_Stones/status/515544052167897088
Nothing on @msnbc or @nytimes right now. @washingtonpost still calling it a stabbing. @AceofSpadesHQ
— Keith (@AsHarshAsTruth) September 26, 2014
Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/515554398152318976
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