{"id":2570,"date":"2021-04-13T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:39:58","slug":"news-media-encouraging-the-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"News Media encouraging the Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the web site Gun Violence Archive \u2013 on 11<sup>th<\/sup> April 2021 \u2013 <strong>42 <\/strong>people in the United States lost their lives due to a gun crime on just that one day\u2026and yet the Red Liberal Media only highlighted the one death in the whole of April \u2013 that related to a black motorist who was killed \u2013 seemingly accidentally by a Police Officer in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sad indictment that the other deaths obviously do not either fit the narrative that they are desperate to highlight or are even worthy of a single sentence in their \u201cnewspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And instead, front pages are devoted \u2013 to protestors, demonstrators, activists \u2013 trying to make a social point through violence and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Thatcher once argued that \u201cthe media are all important. For newspapers and television, acts of terrorism inevitably make good copy and compelling viewing. The hijacker and the terrorist thrive on publicity: without it their activities and their influence are sharply curtailed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst we are not equating the law-breaking activists in Minnesota with the hijacker \u2013 we are equating the point \u2013 that it is the front-page headlines, the rolling news coverage from the \u201cnews\u201d outlets \u2013 that are encouraging \/ enflaming the situation \u2013 and news editors must be held accountable under \u201cincitement laws\u201d if there are any more deaths during these demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the web site Gun Violence Archive \u2013 on 11th April 2021 \u2013 42 people in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}