pjmedia.com How bad is the establishment media? How much does it present propaganda disguised as news? How low will it stoop? Here’s a case study.
A “Sioux Falls man” was arrested on Tuesday. It seems that this particular Sioux Falls man was minding his own business, not bothering anybody, livestreaming on Facebook, when he suddenly decided to let the world know that all was not right in the world of Sioux Falls Man. He announced, right on his Facebook livestream, that he was planning to burn a building down. He also brandished a gun and a knife.
Having thus advertised his intentions to the world, Sioux Falls man was arrested, and the local media covered the story. Yet the way that one Sioux Falls “news” outlet presented the facts has implications that go far beyond Sioux Falls and the story of one local boy who went bad.
KELO Newstalk 1320AM 107.9FM is reputedly a conservative outlet, but it initially ran a photo with its story about this Sioux Falls man that was more interesting than the story itself — not for what the photo depicted, but for its implications. Along with the headline “Sioux Falls man is charged with making a terrorist threat” and the details of the story, KELO ran a photo of a man being arrested. His hands are cuffed behind his back, he’s hanging his head in shame, and a police officer is standing behind him, presumably just about to get him into the back of the waiting patrol car, which is also pictured.
You’d reasonably expect, or even assume, that this was a photo of the Sioux Falls man who was livestreaming and announced his plans to commit an act of arson. Yet not only was it not a photo of the perp, but it was a photo that showed someone who was about as different from the perp as it would be possible to get…
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