A cop warns that the city is soon going to descend into even more violent anarchy:
Will probably do so: parts of the country appear to be regressing back to an early 90s level of peak violent crime, which few would’ve thought possible not long ago
Spoiler alert: I inserted myself into this post because while reporting on crime patterns in Minneapolis -- including carjackings, which have surged astronomically in the past year -- I was (almost certainly) nearly carjacked!
Have already received a number of interesting reactions from people in the Twin Cities area, and will likely do a followup post compiling the best ones. So, send along if you're in the area and have an interesting reaction -- can give anonymity if desired
Here’s the Somali convenience store in Minneapolis where a clerk was just murdered last night. “He was like an uncle to me,” Somali teen milling around outside says of the victim. Adds that victim was hard-working. Another Somali teen says, “African Americans are hunting Somalis”
Asked why African Americans would be hunting Somalis, the teen says it’s because African Americans believe Somalis are getting special favors from the government. Teen angrily denies that Somalis themselves are “African Americans.” Here is a mural right across the street
According to these Cool Kid Media guys it’s not True Journalism unless you incessantly quote the same handful of foundation-funded professional activists and 100% mirror their preferred framing in every article
This makes zero sense. Unless you think journalists should never travel to report on any place that they don’t happen to live in. (Also, I spent a week in MPLS on this trip, and spent two weeks there last summer. Minnesotans should feel free to come report on NJ if they want)
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You don't even have to read the full post if you don't want, just scroll through the extremely long list of public figures reciting the exact same words and phrases. It's honestly hypnotic
I don't know, I guess if I worked in corporate communications I'd say the same thing -- seems pretty good for business if your clientele is anything but explicitly conservative
Spoiler alert: People like @JuddLegum have to pretend that no one objected to the "cancelation" of the Dixie Chicks -- which is demonstrably, glaring false -- because it's his ideological allies who now overwhelmingly wield the cultural/political power to "cancel," unlike in 2003
Good comment proposing a theory for why @JuddLegum and others have chosen to actively mislead their followers/readers into believing there was no concerted backlash to the "cancelation" of the Dixie Chicks
Among the "public officials" so heroically EXPOSED by this bombshell report: "Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah... gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August"
Also note that this crowdfunding information was obtained via "data breach" but Twitter isn't appending any scary warnings about "hacked materials" to tweets circulating this article, rather Twitter has decided to editorially promote the article
Make sure you "show your support for high-impact journalism" by handing over money to the Guardian so they can continue EXPOSING paramedics in Utah who gave $10 to a legal defense fund
Truly, imagine how hopelessly myopic you have to be to level these charges against scary-sounding Russian entities -- as though you’ve boldly identified uniquely nefarious Russian traits that couldn’t be applied in two seconds to the entire gamut of US corporate media outlets
It’s almost more pathetic when the media credulously hypes and promotes this stuff now because they don’t even have Trump around anymore to justify their abandonment of journalistic standards
As explained in the post, “objectivity” was always an unattainable standard. It never made sense as an ideal to aspire to. But the emergent class of journalists have adopted an entire new activism-centered epistemology that is totally antithetical to basic precepts of journalism
Activist-journalists generate power/leverage by posturing as renegades challenging the status quo in the industry. They can't admit that their mentality is now the dominant one. It wasn't 10 years ago, but the post-2016 landscape (and especially post-2020) is radically different
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