Originally posted by Chunder
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That "liberal rags" are suppressing reports on anti-Trump is one possibility of why the those acts appear muted on mainstream media. Another reason, and in my opinion a more likely reason, is that attacks on minorities are in fact increasing in absolute and in comparative terms, and have been on the up and up for quite some time, due to the white identity backlash against recent gains in racial equality, of which Trump's political success is a part.
By the way, I continue to be astonished that tu quoque is continuously raised by some quarters on the WAB as a defense for violence perpetrated by the rightwing. It's as if the ugliness of Trump's personal conduct at his rallies in encouraging violence is all OK, because of BLM. And somehow, it is said that NYT did not report riots at BLM protests (which it did, of course) and that made Trump acceptable material for the presidency. So much for the moral doctrine of individual responsibility, then.
Readership is declining because media aggregators are far better at catering to the ideological predilections of readers and are better commercial models; plagiarism costs nothing, unlike having reporters; never admitting to mistakes in stories means never losing credibility with the gullible. This is happening across the board, globally.
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