Fiery, but mostly peaceful protests...

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  1. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

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    No, this isn't a photoshopped meme. This is an actual still from the most trusted name in news.
     
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  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

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  3. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    Here's another example of the same genre, from CNN's (and formerly the Washington Post's) Chris Cillizza

    https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1300215461309710336

    In case Chris deletes it, it's a twitter post with these words, "Trump's efforts to label what is happening in major cities as "riots" speaks at least somewhat to his desperation, politically speaking, at the moment." Accompanied by this photo:

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    Seriously, it's so tone-deaf that one naturally suspects that it's satire from the Onion. But it seems to be real.
     
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  4. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

  5. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    I just discovered that WGN, which I've never watched, is indeed on my cable TV lineup.

    https://wgnamericaupfront.com/#nn1

    From looking at their website, they are certainly trying to wrap themselves in a Midwestern small-city vibe. But in reality, I think that WGN comes out of Chicago. Not exactly representative of Middle America.

    But yeah, I'll give it a look and see whether I like it.

    There really is a huge void in the straight-journalism space that CNN has thoroughly abandoned by its slide left. This thing might just conceivably be successful, provided that they play it straight and don't try to use their channel as a vehicle for their editors' personal views or as another engine for "social change".
     
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