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Media hypocrisy in their coverage of DC Protests versus BLM protests

Posted on January 7, 2021July 13, 2021 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Media hypocrisy in their coverage of DC Protests versus BLM protests
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Media hypocrisy in their coverage of DC Protests versus BLM protests

Ray Hanania tears into the hypocrisy of the mainstream news media which is playing politics with the DC protests in his podcast, “Ray Hanania on Politics.”

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Break a window, a door at congress and you are all “terrorists” who should be vilified … Destroy and burn down dozens of stores in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle or more, and you’re a “hero” with rights. I think the real villains are the hypocritical news media.
Ray Hanania explores the biased media hypocrisy in how they covered differently the months-long Black Lives Matter protests take took place in the summer of 2020 and how they covered the single day protests by pro-Trump supporters at the U.S. Congress on Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021.
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This is what the biased news media did: they divided the BLM protests into two groups, the righteous protestors who they emphasized from those who engaged in violence which they condemned but also often excused. (When you are the victim of historic racism, some said, you can expect this kind of backlash … and, the violence was against buildings)
In the case of the Washington DC protests, they treated them as ONE GROUP denouncing them ALL as rioters and terrorists. The legitimate protestors and those who turned to crime.
No one held BLM responsible for the outrageous waves of violence and crime that took place last summer they way they blamed ALL of the DC protestors for the violence that took place on Wednesday.
The reason is politics. The media supports BLM and provided cover. The media hates Trump and lumped them all together.
The violence is disgusting. The racist hate driven slogans by both sides are wrong. But that’s not how it’s being treated.
That’s what the f-ing media doesn’t want you to be able to discuss and they will viciously attack anyone personally who says that!
This isn’t about Trump or Biden. It’s about the news media and their political, partisan, biased BS hypocrisy.

(Ray Hanania is an award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter and political columnist. This column was originally published in the Southwest News Newspaper Group in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers. For more information on Ray Hanania visit www.Hanania.com or email him at [email protected].)

 

 

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