Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken."
Why did he post it? Why did the attacker choose a CyberTruck?
If we are going to open up on speculation, then it seems reasonable to suspect that the attacker chose a CyberTruck because of Elon's relationship to the incoming administration. In response it makes sense that Elon would highlight the inept execution.
Some partisan responses to the health insurer's assassination have been positive. Even comments on this site seem to be rationalizing the violence. Typically, decent people would condemn terrorist violence as irrational escalation.
Highlighting the inept execution and poor planning illustrates the irrationality of the attacker. If Elon can subtly parlay it into some of the safety marketing or durability of his vehicle, that's an extra win on top.
Compare the narratives:
"Luigi was a smart guy and master planner who read books. Let's plug the author."
"It didn't even break the glass"
Is it fair to say this kind of distortion is typical MAGA? Typical Republican? Is it decent? Why lie?
Fox initially ran with a story the NOLA truck illegally crossed the border with Mexico. This disinformation is intentional, no one is this incompetent. They know their demographic wants to be lied to. Disinformation is the product they're selling. Same with the politicians.
Turtles all the way down. I would say it typifies media across the board. There's also the meta-distortion where partisan sources misrepresent the statements of opposing partisans to present them as dishonest.
It depends on what you mean by 'media', but I think among top-level news media, Fox and ideological fellow travelers embrace disinformation and produce it at orders of magnitude higher volumes, while others make occasional errors.
That's the right title.
Do you remember when, for hours and days, CNN and other news sources refused to acknowledge the assassination attempt, saying that he was hit by something not directed at him?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bullet-shrapnel-ronny-jacks...
CNN published this headline one day after.
"How the assassination attempt on Trump unfolded"
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/what-happened-tr...
Yeah yeah they edit these headlines and articles in real time. Even Archive.org cannot keep up with news, and they do nothing for search results which is what I was talking about. By the way, the Internet Archive was mysteriously down for several weeks during election season after Trump's multiple assassination attempts, and I don't buy their story either.
>The info is not there. Misinformation, sure.
You only provided one CNN link, which was likely modified in real time. The memory hole is real.
The mainsteam denial went on for quite a while. They first questioned whether he was shot, then they questioned the obvious motive of the assassin with stupid crap like "It is unclear what the shooter's motive was, or if it was political." To be fair a high-ranking FBI official was muddying the water and the media is practically obligated to take that seriously ( https://nypost.com/2024/07/25/us-news/fbi-director-christoph... for example). But take your lame apologetics elsewhere. I saw this unfold in real time by the hour, as a case study in propaganda and gaslighting.
Edit: Your trolling is testing the rate limit. Here's your reply, jerk:
>Nope, the article headline was not modified in real time. But you don't care because you are only interested in information that confirms your delusion.
You are arguing with me about stuff I watched very carefully with my own eyes only a few months ago. Take your snotty attitude and gaslighting elsewhere. Do not reply to me again on anything political, ever.
That’s usually what happens when news orgs only report confirmed information, e.g. “Trump hit by projectile”. It feels misleading but it’s accurate at the time.
If you’re literally saying they were specifically stating he was hit by something “not directed at him” (as opposed to “not confirmed whether it was directed at him”) I’d be fascinated to see some examples.
considering that it was rented in Colorado, parked right in front of the trump hotel lobby with the trump hotel sign right above it, and exploded right after, the simplest explanation seems to be that it was intentional and that causing a scene was more important to them than killing.
Is that bad judgement too? I swear to God the mental gymnastics to blame Tesla...
That's not a fact. I just watched a reputable report the morning after that also reiterated the FBI's position that there was still uncertainty if it was intentional or not.
I don’t know if the police themselves have actually called this a deliberate act yet. Yes, the evidence looks pretty overwhelming but it might be that media orgs don’t want to jump the gun on a highly sensitive topic.
If it was a "White Supremacist" then the headlines would be completely different. The entire race would be unashamedly vilified by the media.
For attacks committed by other racial and religious groups, we see headlines tending more toward vagueness, avoidance of blame, insinuations of mental illness, and - very commonly - the attribution of blame to inanimate objects ("Car slams into crowd at Christmas festival").
I don't recall a single headline of the form Starving mentally ill minority person eats cat as last resort
The usual media outlets jumped straight on the illegal immigrants eating cats narrative with nary a shred of solid evidence.
If you're not seeing headlines vilifying non white and non christian suspects on the slightest whiff of wrongdoing then you're either fully acclimatized or commenting in bad faith.
The 22 day old nom de guerre strongly suggests the latter.
Like when the woman in the NYC subway was set on fire, many major news networks simply didn't report it.
As for examples, this is the most obviously damning one I can remember: a pregnant nurse (white of course) was accused of stealing an e-bike from a black man standing in a group of several other black men. The NATIONAL media wasted zero time going to her employer, talking to her neighbors, basically putting her in danger over what was at worst a misunderstanding. The pundits were out there talking smack about "weaponized white tears" and that kind of horrible hateful rant against white people and especially white women. Here's one of the updates where she tried to get people off her back: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-N...
You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right?
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news...
Funny how you link the rag daily mail instead of the news organizations you are actually accusing.
>You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right?
I'm not talking about market share, I'm talking about representation in these institutions. You should know better.
I didn't just make that up about the media being biased toward the left either. It has been proven in multiple surveys and polls. Individual journalists themselves tend to lean left, and so do their agencies overall. Look at how the staff of Washington Post freaked out in response to Bezos telling them to be less biased: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/washingt...
Here's a study you might be interested in, one of many (not that I have a bibliography of this): https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/10/new-paper-out-the-left-...
If you think more than half of all people prefer Fox News to the rest, that ought to tell you how insufferably biased they are. These used to be well-respected institutions but they have destroyed any semblance of impartiality in writing and good will toward the masses.
Hmm so people who spend their time researching economic, social, and political issues lean left? And that doesn't indicate anything to you?
Here's a study you might be interested in
No, I'm not interested in any sketchy links / misinformation you are providing.
These used to be well-respected institutions but they have destroyed any semblance of impartiality in writing and good will toward the masses.
Or conservative media like fox news panders to racism and bigotry for profit.
That would make it a deliberate act of r/FloridaMan stupidity.