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Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by wakawaka28 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:28AM (#42572495)
The media has no problem jumping the gun on sensitive topics if it suits their preferred politics.
Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by RonaldDump on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:51AM (#42572591)
Yes this is an extension of Coulter's Law.

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").

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by defrost on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:54AM (#42572603)
Nonsense.

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.

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by ivewonyoung on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:49AM (#42573107)
They simply don't cover the news instead of writing headlines like that.

Like when the woman in the NYC subway was set on fire, many major news networks simply didn't report it.

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by selimthegrim on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:38PM (#42596258)
I certainly saw quite a bit about it and not just on Fox.
Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by afavour on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:20AM (#42574626)
That’s a somewhat empty statement. It would benefit from some concrete examples. Which media? What politics?
Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by wakawaka28 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:46PM (#42578008)
I would say all of the most popular media. Both sides do it but I sure notice it a lot more on the left. Maybe that's not fair because 80% of the media leans hard left.

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...

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by NewJazz on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:42PM (#42579250)
80% huh?

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.

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by wakawaka28 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:23PM (#42579602)
Re: Daily Mail, that link is one of the ones that was fair to the woman. If you do a modicum of research about that (which ought to be interesting to a normal person!) you can find plenty of information, including video of some major network interviewing her neighbors. I know you don't care though, you just want to downvote my insightful comments. Go find something better to do.

>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.

Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ... by NewJazz on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:28PM (#42579662)
Individual journalists themselves tend to lean left

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.