This made me kinda sad today...

[framer]

If I could deliver a message to the Liberal press over this incident, it might be this: "I value truth. What are you doing? Get stories like this straight. You have a responsibility to get it straight, when it was not at all difficult to get it a lot straighter then you did. You are hurting the cause by falling well short of the truth. And that cause is get that SOB man-child bully the hell out of that office, while we still have any allies at all, while we have a dolt in office who insists on being president for only a minority of citizens. Do not use edited videos to illustrate the nature of our divisions. We know what those divisions are, we don't need these kind of mistakes. Keep shedding light on what is wrong with this president and his administration. You don't need to toss the truth out the window to do that. Don't play into Trump's hands. Smarten up."


I do value truth. I want to know who is behind the suspended Twitter account @2020fight. Which posted the one minute clip with the most views on social media, and who captioned that clip "This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March".

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ligence-committee_us_5c47914be4b025aa26bdf2be

You don't get a pass because your source lied to you. You get multiple sources. If you can't you don't run the story. The press CHOSE to ignore these protections. They weren't victims. They made the CHOICE to run a bad story. That's fake news. Even if the story turns out correct, you still failed Journalism 101. You have one freaking job!

Last question, if the kid isn't wearing the Trump hat, is this news at all? If no, then yes the press deserves all of the crap they have received.

 

[Gameface]

You don't get a pass because your source lied to you. You get multiple sources. If you can't you don't run the story. The press CHOSE to ignore these protections. They weren't victims. They made the CHOICE to run a bad story. That's fake news. Even if the story turns out correct, you still failed Journalism 101. You have one freaking job!

Last question, if the kid isn't wearing the Trump hat, is this news at all? If no, then yes the press deserves all of the crap they have received.

They don't need multiple sources of a video. LOL please stop telling us how journalism works. And if a person is willing to make a statement on the record, with their name attached, you don't need a second source for that, either. You print the person's statement with their name attached and/or you show video of them saying it.

When someone makes a statement on the record it is their reputation that's on the line, not the specific news organization they're talking to.

And again, despite your claims to the contrary, "the press" is not a single thing. There are over 1 million people who work in "the press" https://www.statista.com/statistics/184736/number-of-employees-in-the-us-media-industry/ and you claim (without any substantiation at all) that it is a "homogeneous" community that all has roughly similar political and social views. That's flat out ridiculous.

You're spewing a lot of garbage that you haven't made a single attempt to back up.

 

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So there are different levels of white privilege?

I answered "It's the same..." and you come back with "So, there are different..."?

Am I Interpreting your answer correctly?

No.

 

[Alfalfa]

Last question, if the kid isn't wearing the Trump hat, is this news at all? If no, then yes the press deserves all of the crap they have received.

Do you think there's a reason for that? I mean, aside from blind, inexplicable, bias?

 

[One Brow]

Hell, it turns out that Phillips isn't even a war vet as he claimed.

Phillips claimed to be, and is, a military veteran. He is not, and did not claim to be, a war veteran.

 

[framer]

Do you think there's a reason for that? I mean, aside from blind, inexplicable, bias?

Honestly? No, not from a kid who really didn't do anything but stand there.

 

[Alfalfa]

Honestly? No, not from a kid who really didn't do anything but stand there.

Do you think there's a reason people quickly jump to the conclusion that the kid was being racist just for wearing a MAGA hat? Do you think it's related to the behavior they've seen from Trump supporters, or is it people being patsies to the media's agenda?

 

[framer]

They don't need multiple sources of a video. LOL please stop telling us how journalism works. And if a person is willing to make a statement on the record, with their name attached, you don't need a second source for that, either. You print the person's statement with their name attached and/or you show video of them saying it.

When someone makes a statement on the record it is their reputation that's on the line, not the specific news organization they're talking to.

And again, despite your claims to the contrary, "the press" is not a single thing. There are over 1 million people who work in "the press" https://www.statista.com/statistics/184736/number-of-employees-in-the-us-media-industry/ and you claim (without any substantiation at all) that it is a "homogeneous" community that all has roughly similar political and social views. That's flat out ridiculous.

You're spewing a lot of garbage that you haven't made a single attempt to back up.

Apparently, you don't really have any idea how journalism works. If a person makes an allegation that puts someone in a negative light you ALWAYS get the story from the other person unless they refuse to talk, then you try to get the other side regardless. If I go on youtube and call someone a pedophile, is that newsworthy as long as I film them in front of a schoolyard?

What repercussions has Phillips had from lying? Not one news organization will take him to task? Why do you think that is? Because of all the newsroom diversity you keep touting?

 

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It’s an interesting question, to be sure. But it’s a rather unusual focus in the larger context.

Perhaps let’s take a different angle on this. Instead of male high school kids waiting for a bus, let’s say it was a girl’s high school cheerleading team in cheer outfits waiting for the bus. And instead of Black Israelites yelling racist and homophobic slurs, let’s say it is a group of frat boys cat calling and making vulgar sexual comments. What would happen if one were to raise the question as to why the girls felt it appropriate to be wearing revealing clothing in front of sex-starved college males? What kind of chaperone would leave a bunch of “scantily clad” girls in front college males who would get worked up by it? Now, yes, why a chaperone would do that may indeed show poor judgement, but do you think that would be the appropriate direction to look at that situation? Is that a fair assessment — at all — of the situation, that this is really just a chaperone problem? Would that question be able to make it past the “OMG victim blaming” filter? Do the frat boys get the pass because “it’s just what they do” and all blame lies on the feet of the chaperones and the girls for “dressing scantily”?

Does the chaperone tell the high school girls that it's OK to start yelling at grown men in response? Plus, I think the conflation of wearing political messages (actual speech) and scanty clothing (not speech) harms your comparison instead of aiding it.

It's not just a chaperone problem, but that's no reason to not fault the chaperone as well.

 

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Or yet a better scenario:

A class of inner-city youth who are predominately AA are waiting for a bus while a bunch of white nationalists are hurling racist insults. What were the chaperones thinking, right?

If I'm the chaperone in that situation, I get the kids out of there before the white nationalists start using their fists.

 

[One Brow]

People voted for Trump because they tired of the press turning Bush, McCain, and Romney into Nazis when it served their purpose. People got tired of the tongue baths that Obama received from the press.

The mainstream press were just as much lapdogs to Bush as they were to Obama. I wonder why you see it differently?

 

[Alfalfa]

No response. So in conclusion, yes, the fact the kid was wearing a MAGA hat contributed to the assumption he was harassing Phillips. As it should have. I don't remember any Black Israelities shooting up synagogues or black churches or Indians walking on the beach because they look kinda Muslimish. I also don't recall them ever targeting any white equivalent. So no, we don't care about them.