National Media Retracts Its Claim That There Was Violence at the Nevada State Democratic Convention

[Sky Masterson]

4. This.

"If there’s a better example of Noam Chomsky’s contention that the media uses propaganda — propaganda with a specific end in mind — to shift reality, and then doesn’t undo the damage they’ve done when they’re caught, I can’t think of one.

Even the Democratic National Committee — “neutral” in the Democratic primary — joined the fray, adding its voice to the major-media chorus singing Bernie Sanders’ swan song.

Barbara Boxer — who claimed she feared for her safety in Nevada — was subsequently shown in a video contemptuously and facetiously blowing kisses to the crowd as she was calmly escorted from the stage by the very same police officers who’d been in the room the whole time and not observed any violence whatsoever."