Liberal reporter Zaid Jilani tweeted out this must-read thread where he torched the national media for “screwing up the reporting around Ma’Khia Bryant.”
Jilani writes, “In this new paradigm, facts are only worthwhile insofar as they promote a single Narrative”
The news media is screwing up the reporting around Ma'Khia Bryant because it has moved away from focusing on reporting the facts. In this new paradigm, facts are only worthwhile insofar as they promote a single Narrative. https://t.co/pc7ir2RDUj
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 22, 2021
And the “Narrative-driven news media can’t report honestly about violent crime because it doesn’t recognize it as a thing that exists and impacts the lives of ordinary people”:
Narrative-driven news media can't report honestly about violent crime because it doesn't recognize it as a thing that exists and impacts the lives of ordinary people. If it's not about racism, the police, or racist police, the media just ignores it. https://t.co/pc7ir2A32L
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 22, 2021
Bingo:
Police shootings are rare and declining. Shootings and murders committed by criminal are more common and increasing. Yet the former gets so much ink and attention and the latter next to none because the media is obsessed with Narrative over truth. https://t.co/pc7ir2A32L
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 22, 2021
We posted about this yesterday. Absolute crickets from the media:
One day before Bryant's death, a 13-year-old girl was stabbed to death in another Ohio town. That story will never break out into national media, and neither would the events in Columbus if police weren't involved. https://t.co/pc7ir2A32L
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 22, 2021
This “isn’t journalism, and it isn’t good for the country”:
The media isn't simply highlighting the loss of life or human tragedies. The media is promoting a Narrative designed to drive clicks and promote division. That isn't journalism, and it isn't good for the country. https://t.co/pc7ir2A32L
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 22, 2021
“Spot on,” indeed:
Say it with respect to my friend in the press, this thread is spot on and it is having a corrosive effect on reporting.
Part of it is that many reporters are simply imprisoned by Twitter. They know the stories they are expected to write, even if they don't want to write them. https://t.co/4odlAFh12d
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) April 22, 2021
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