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Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts) Fri May 1, 2015, 08:32 AM May 2015

Meme Sums Up Embarrassing Riot Coverage On Mainstream Media

Tue Apr 28, 2015 at 03:20 PM PDT.

Meme Sums Up Embarrassing Riot Coverage On Mainstream Media

by Leslie Salzillo

So, we have 'white riots' (because we lost the game), and 'black riots' (because we're losing our lives). Guess which riots national and mainstream media choose to demonize?

As Occupy Democrats state in their meme below, violent and destructive sports riots barely make the news.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28/1381013/-Image-Sums-Up-Embarrassing-Riot-Coverage-On-Mainstream-Media?detail=email#

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When the vogue for after-game riots started... malthaussen May 2015 #1

malthaussen

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1. When the vogue for after-game riots started...

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Fri May 1, 2015, 09:10 AM

May 2015

... a lot of years ago, I wondered what we were coming to. Frankly, I'm glad to see people rioting about something that makes sense.

I've been in the middle of a couple of those sports riots. Not an experience I relish. More booze might help that.

-- Mal

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