The Danger in Media Telling Only Half the Story on Political Violence
When mass media displays such a clear bias, then the people who are on the losing end of that bias are not going to be happy.
Friday, November 02, 2018
Sean Malone
In the last few months, we've seen numerous acts of politically motivated or targeted violence. Some of these cases have been plastered all over the news for days or weeks. Some others have been met with deafening silence. And which is which hasn't exactly been random.
There is clear bias in the reporting of political violence and I believe this has had some serious consequences for people's ability to trust the media and bridge a divided culture.
To understand why, we need to look at what's actually happened recently, so while what follows is far from a complete list of all the politically-motivated violence, it encompasses many of the most recent and highest-profile examples:
https://fee.org/articles/the-danger-in-media-telling-only-half-the-story-on-political-violence/?utm_source=zapier&utm
