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Questions nobody seems to have asked:
What are the addresses of the context-free images of urban decay—sourced to a Twitter pundit—that Fox News fed to a U.S. president to denigrate a city, its predominantly black residents and a civil rights leader?
Who owns those buildings?
What are the addresses of the context-free images of urban decay—sourced to a Twitter pundit—that Fox News fed to a U.S. president to denigrate a city, its predominantly black residents and a civil rights leader?
Who owns those buildings?
Somebody is responsible for the squalor in that decontextualized footage, and it’s not Rep. Cummings.
Remember when Trump disseminated a racist video of a killer before the midterms, and it turned out the killer was freed by Arpaio?
Remember when Trump disseminated a racist video of a killer before the midterms, and it turned out the killer was freed by Arpaio?
The fact that upsetting images with no identifying information about what they represent can dominate our news cycle for days in a row without such foundational questions being asked is a failure of journalism.
