CNN and MSM Do It Again

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   GA Andersonposted 4 years ago

   This is what the police saw—after a 3 am foot chase through an alley:
   
   
   This is what CNN and MSM saw:
   
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   With headlines that say police shot a teenager, MSM is defining a false narrative. Would viewers form a different perception if the image like the one police saw was tagged with a headline that police shot an armed gang member?
   
   GA

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      wildernessposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Must...sensationalize...to...keep....ratings.
      
      That it promotes a lie is irrelevant.

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      Sharlee01posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      If I looked at the photo with this boy holding his hands up, I would think there was no reason to shoot him. If I was only exposed to the very innocent photos of this boy I would come to the same conclusion. I would certainly feel different if the headline that accompanied the photo stated  "police shot an armed gang member".
      
      It is very evident a picture is worth a thousand words to the media. However, words, a well-formed blurb that accompany a photo offer information that can lead to one forming an opinion. In many cases a poor uninformed opinion.
      
        In my view it wiser to not form an opinion on a photo,
      accompanied by a blurb. Look deeper into any media story before jumping to an opinion.

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         wildernessposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Look deeper into any and all media you can find, and above all wait until ALL (you hope) the information is available to you, for media will never, ever present all of it.

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            Sharlee01posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Amen...

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      tsmogposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Most definitely they are seeking sympathy for the victim while at the same time seeking to unjustly convict the officer with visual stimulus and a headline blurb. Especially with today's climate toward police shootings. Sensationalism at its finest.
      
      I was first exposed to this incident seeing it on TMZ Live a left learning TV program. I was surprised they were coming out in defense of the officer. They showed the video where I think it was six shots were fired before the foot pursuit began.
      
      Anyway, they slowed the video and it was one second from when the teen stopped turning with gun still in hand, tossed the gun, and raised his hands. The officer fired in that second. So, even the pic you shared did not tell the whole story since it was time frozen.

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      Ken Burgessposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is the law of propaganda.
      
      They intensify social conflict to undermine people's faith in the democratic  process, in social stability, in the people who maintain law and order in society. With malicious intent fake news has evolved from blatant deception IE:
      
      Tell me Lies reveals the systematic propaganda used by both the US and UK governments to convince us of the 'threat' from Iraq. It shows how we were deliberately misled into a war that has resulted in a humanitarian disaster in Iraq and threatens to create further instability and resentment of the US and UK throughout the Middle East.
      
      To creating narratives that destabilize the pillars of our government and society.
      
      CNN and the Media serve corporate interests, push extreme political agendas or serve foreign interests.  Anyone that watches "the news" without that in mind, is allowing themselves to be duped by the propaganda they are peddling.

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   Kenna McHughposted 4 years ago

   The first picture shows his arms up, but who knows the truth. Let's stop propagating untruths. Let's concentrate on the positive aspects of our lives. Though, I feel sorry for his family. It's obvious this teenager, running from the cops, is a criminal.

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