The media care more about supporting the narrative than they do about reporting the facts.
And in other news, water is wet.
Chad Felix Greene used a story from The Hill to illustrate how the media creates a narrative and once you see it in black and white you’ll never stop being pissed off about it. Take a gander:
How the media creates a narrative.
The Hill doesn't show the attacker's picture. Everyone assumes based on the prejudices the media create.
Sadly the real story is of a mentally unstable man on drugs who behaved violently and severely hurt innocent people. pic.twitter.com/T01VghpizM
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 2, 2018
Utah man attacks father and son, says he’s there to ‘kill a Mexican’.
The Hill pushes that as its headline KNOWING most people won’t bother to read the story – just look at the comments on the tweet. ‘Wonder if he’s a Trump supporter?’ SEE?! They knew exactly what writing the headline in this way would do, that it would support the ‘Trump supporters are violent racists’ narrative.
And THEN when the reader finally gets around to reading the story you see the accused is an older black man and that he’s off obviously his rocker.
Poof, there goes the narrative.
Literally just now a Leftwing bluecheck tweeted 'Where was he radicalized?' under the Hill story and then deleted once I posted the picture of the attacker.
The Left makes 100% of their judgments based on racism and prejudice.
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 2, 2018
Where would the mentally unstable man on drugs have gotten the idea that Mexicans were the enemy, Chad?
Hmmmmmmm?#PublicRacismHasConsequences— Hal Lancaster (@HalTheWanted) December 2, 2018
Huh?
Oh FFS.
Then you have some people who will believe and push the narrative even when it’s obviously NOT true.
The story tells you why. pic.twitter.com/77I3vllqMb
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 2, 2018
As we said up there (yeah, right there) the account trolling Chad didn’t bother to read past the headline.
And THAT, ladies and gents, is how it works.
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