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B_MC
B_MC
November 14, 2021 7:41 am

That plays nicely with “pundits pounding the trial into yet another generalized referendum on American culture war.”

As with all major news stories lately, the Rittenhouse case saw idiosyncrasies wash away as coverage accumulated, with pundits pounding the trial into yet another generalized referendum on American culture war. Prestige media made Rittenhouse a stand-in for the Proud Boys, January 6th, school board protests, anti-mask protests, QAnon, Blue Lives Matter, Trump, “Domestic Terrorism,” fascism, school shooters, and every other naughty thing, with everyone from then-candidate Joe Biden to The Intercept blithely declaring him a white supremacist. The efforts to cast Rittenhouse as a symbol of racism and white rage have been awesome in quantity and transparently, intentionally provoking, with even leading papers like the New York Times standardizing a practice of underscoring Rittenhouse’s race (“white teenager”) while leaving the identities of those shot out of coverage. Glenn Greenwald pointed out that his old outlet, The Intercept, noted Rittenhouse’s race 20 times in one piece while keeping schtum about the color of those shot.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/as-america-falls-apart-profits-soar

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
November 14, 2021 1:46 pm

There are only three main news narratives these days:

White supremacy/racism
COVID-19 and why everybody has to get vaccinated (or re-vaccinated)
Climate change (crisis, catastrophe)

Every single other story has to circle back to one of those.

Harrington Richardson: #I Stand With Steve
Harrington Richardson: #I Stand With Steve
  Iska Waran
November 14, 2021 2:49 pm

Are we in “The Age of the Chimera?”