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TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:16 PM Jul 2020

So why do media people not call him on his lies?

He just said that police kill more white people than Black people. Why did that woman not ask him for facts and numbers??

Is the media being complicit when they encounter him face to face???

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LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
1. The tell is in the percentages. So many more percent black pulled over, harassed and murdered. It is
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:19 PM
Jul 2020

not that white aren't experiencing it also. They are. The numbers percentage wise is much higher for blacks. He can give you numbers and it would show more white than black are killed by cops. But there are way more white than blacks in this country.

Jirel

(2,014 posts)
2. It depends which network you listen to.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:21 PM
Jul 2020

NPR is full of traitors and cowards that won’t speak over a hush. CNN has been calling it out iften and loudly, and so has MSNBC (maybe a bit too overwrought at times). NYT (Less skillfully) and WAPO have been on it too.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Election Cycle.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:29 PM
Jul 2020

Never forget what the CBS CEO said 4 years ago,Trump is good for our bottom line. It is all about pulling in those Ad dollars. Oh,and corporate Media is not going to dump Trump .

uponit7771

(90,302 posts)
7. 8 out of 10 times the person asking didn't do their homework on RW retorts not just the subject or
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 08:52 PM
Jul 2020

... they have an agenda or they want to go on to other questions.

blitzen

(4,572 posts)
8. Anderson Cooper just gave the data: black men are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by cops...
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 08:54 PM
Jul 2020

than white men.

BannonsLiver

(16,304 posts)
9. Jim Acosta and Anderson Cooper just spent 20 minutes doing just that
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 09:37 PM
Jul 2020

I think we’re at a point where people have become so numb or snow blind to it all they’re no longer able to recognize when it is being called out. I see him called out and fact checked all over Twitter, print and electronic media every day.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,816 posts)
10. It is literally true that the police kill more whites than blacks.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 06:24 PM
Jul 2020

As if that somehow makes any of those murders okay.

tenderfoot

(8,425 posts)
11. Because network heads are cut from the same cloth as Trump.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 06:29 PM
Jul 2020

They'll never relinquish their wealth and power. It's the reason there's so much "both sides" and commentary substituting for actual reporting.

However, as soon as Biden gets in - they'll suddenly wake up and hold his feet to the fire.

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