That reminds me of when I still fell for the MSM narratives, or rather one of the last ones I fell for. It was some "kids" arrested for "tossing rocks" at passing cars. The article made it seem like it was a bunch of 9 year olds throwing pebbles.
Then some independent journalist, don't remember which one, actually goes to the scene and takes a video showing the area, and the "small rocks" being thrown. Turns out, the group of "kids" were all 16 and 17, and the "pebbles" were the size of my head being thrown off an overpass as cars passed underneath it.
They ended up killing someone, and the MSM were basically trying to play it off like it was some horrible tragic accident and they shouldn't be punished for it, even though they did it on purpose and knew what could happen. That was one of the last narratives I fell for, or almost fell for since I ended up realizing what really went down.
Yup. The sad thing is that the news is rewarded for making things out to be more interesting than they really are and they've figured out that slamming the outrage button gets them the most clicks.
So they pull BS like this continually and then piss and moan about the fact that we don't trust them as gatekeepers of truth any more. Not that we ever should've, because man, once you read more history you realize that the Pulitzer prize is named after one of two people who were both pioneers of yellow journalism who had a feud with each other.
It kinda says a lot when their top prize is named after someone printing lies about people for money...
That reminds me of when I still fell for the MSM narratives, or rather one of the last ones I fell for. It was some "kids" arrested for "tossing rocks" at passing cars. The article made it seem like it was a bunch of 9 year olds throwing pebbles.
Then some independent journalist, don't remember which one, actually goes to the scene and takes a video showing the area, and the "small rocks" being thrown. Turns out, the group of "kids" were all 16 and 17, and the "pebbles" were the size of my head being thrown off an overpass as cars passed underneath it.
They ended up killing someone, and the MSM were basically trying to play it off like it was some horrible tragic accident and they shouldn't be punished for it, even though they did it on purpose and knew what could happen. That was one of the last narratives I fell for, or almost fell for since I ended up realizing what really went down.
Yup. The sad thing is that the news is rewarded for making things out to be more interesting than they really are and they've figured out that slamming the outrage button gets them the most clicks.
So they pull BS like this continually and then piss and moan about the fact that we don't trust them as gatekeepers of truth any more. Not that we ever should've, because man, once you read more history you realize that the Pulitzer prize is named after one of two people who were both pioneers of yellow journalism who had a feud with each other.
It kinda says a lot when their top prize is named after someone printing lies about people for money...
Gonna take a wild guess at the demographic of the "kids"
You might be wrong. https://youtu.be/OpEii452UIk
What a tweest!