From January 6 To BLM Riots To Trump Tower Invasion: Selective Media Coverage #Political
January 6.
Simply to say the two words will elicit, depending on the political views of the listener, everything from a head shaking to a roll of the eyes or more.
Which is to say the date of the events in Washington on January 6, 2021 is, thanks to a saturated media coverage that has never really gone away a full four years later, immutable.
And here’s where the always left-wing bias of the so-called “mainstream media” shows itself.
This very week left-wing, Trump-hating protestors swarmed New York’s Trump Tower, home to you know who. They were there to protest the arrest of pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil.
NBC headlined the story this way:
Nearly 100 protesters arrested after sit-in at Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil
Some protesters held signs that read "Fight Nazis not students," "Free Mahmoud free Palestine" and "You can’t deport a movement.”
Headlines like that one were salted throughout the media. NBC quoted a "Jewish Voice for Peace" protester suggesting Trump could unleash another Holocaust.
Question? How long will the coverage of this event, let alone the media memory of it, last?
Let's go back in time. Beginning on May 26, 2020, there were a series of riots in various urban centers around the country. The cause: the death of one George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer while under arrest.
The episode caught on video and spread almost instantly across the media. According to Axios, "the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King."
Safe to say, most Americans go about their daily business today and could not give the date of the 19 deaths associated with the Floyd riots and the damage inflicted at that time. But the media spin remains positive: the word "riots" is not used. They "inspired a global reckoning with racism."
Notice anything?
The coverage of the events of January 6th, a full four years ago, is to this day commonly used by those in the leftist media to make this, that or another political point in the media. In fact, reference to January 6 can be found this very week. As here:
From CNN:
Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans are at odds over January 6 investigation
From the New York Times:
Judge Pushes Back on Justice Dept.’s Broad View of Jan. 6 Pardons
The judge, Dabney L. Friedrich, chided the department for the way in which it had “abruptly reversed its position” on the issue “with virtually no explanation.”
Does anyone seriously believe that four years from now - for that matter four days from now - the media will still be talking about this week’s invasion of Trump Tower? Of course not. And the reason is plain.
Any violent civil disturbance in which the perpetrators are seen as right-wingers is going to receive considerable negative coverage from the liberal media.
But if the perpetrators are seen as left wingers? Launching those massive, violent and destructive riots in cities across America after the George Floyd situation? Fairly quickly mum’s the media word. The House January 6 Committee was created with the express intention of memory-holing the 2020 riots. There is no automatic reference out there in the media to the Floyd riots as an “insurrection”, as is still true of references to January 6.
Which is to say, the standard for massive, ongoing “don’t ever forget” media coverage of a protest or riot all depends on who launched the events in question.
January 6th? Never forget.
The Floyd riots? What riots? When? Who is George Floyd?
The protest invaders of Trump Tower? Huh?
All of which is to say, the lefty bias of media coverage of even civil disturbances in America are going to receive very, very different treatment. Different treatment that relies completely on just which side is seen as being involved in the event. Which in turn easily contributes to the perception that those darn right-wingers are prone to violence or just civic disruption. But the Left? What BLM riots? What Trump Tower invasion?
All of which is, yet again, one reason for the very existence of conservative media. To keep the record straight.
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