The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Glenn Gree... - 0 views
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melnikju on 17 Feb 21Both conservatives and liberals, people on any side of the argument, are trying to twist it to make themselves look better
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But none of the other four deaths were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range. The other three deaths were all pro-Trump protesters: Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, “the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo,” who died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter whom the Times says was inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.”
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Obviously, news coverage wouldn't want to make the rioters look innocent or hurt at any point, so they wouldn't want to cover this
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The problem with this story is that it is false in all respects.
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nobody saw video of it. No photographs depicted it. To this day, no autopsy report has been released. No details from any official source have been provided.
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“with a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.”
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does not say whether it came from the police or protesters.
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With the impeachment trial now over, the articles are now rewritten to reflect that the original story was false. But there was nothing done by The New York Times to explain an error of this magnitude, let alone to try to undo the damage it did by misleading the public. They did not expressly retract or even “correct” the story.
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far-right forums
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and the FBI has acknowledged it has no evidence to the contrary
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So it matters a great deal legally, but also politically, if the U.S. really did suffer an armed insurrection and continues to face one. Though there is no controlling, clear definition, that term usually connotes not a three-hour riot but an ongoing, serious plot by a faction of the citizenry to overthrow or otherwise subvert the government.
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people rightly conclude the propaganda is deliberate and trust in journalism erodes further.
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One can — and should — condemn the January 6 riot without inflating the threat it posed. And one can — and should — insist on both factual accuracy and sober restraint without standing accused of sympathy for the rioters.
