ABC, CBS, and NBC reported the senseless murder of Antifa activist Ryan Carson in Brooklyn, but they downplayed his radicalism ("community activist") and ignored his leftist girlfriend Claudia Morales refusing to cooperate with police identifying the black suspect, Brian Dowling.
CBS drew heat on conservative Twitter for blurring out Dowling's face, not something they did for subway-chokehold suspect Daniel Penny or Kenosha self-defense shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. Brandon Morse at RedState guessed they were influenced by liberal journalism educators like the Poynter Institute, who believe showing black and brown subjects displays systemic racism.
Poynter's Kelly McBride -- who moonlights as the "Public Editor" at NPR -- wrote “Local news reporters have amplified narratives that connect Black and brown communities to crime. As a result, we have fostered systemic racism through our crime coverage.”
NewsBusters media analyst Kevin Tober joined the show to discuss his analysis of the Carson crime. He noted Andy Ngo found Carson had a nasty Twitter history of celebrating deaths like Rush's Limbaugh's. Kevin singled out ABC as the most promotional of the victim, showing a friend who said "When you met him, you loved him. You wanted to be near him. You wanted to be more like him."
We also discussed the weird interview on CNN where Hillary Clinton decried the "MAGA extremists" and insisted "maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members." Christiane Amanpour didn't follow up with questions like "what kind of formal deprogramming?" She just rolled with Clinton's criticism of crazy Republicans.
Finally, we discussed how a pack of female journalists attended a dinner to "celebrate" White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, including presidents of two news networks. Other female journalists talked about their glorious dinners with the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Inside the liberal media, they never seem to worry about losing whatever image they have of being nonpartisan after these social events are reported.
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