"Moral clarity would insist that politicians who
traffic in racist stereotypes and tropes — however cleverly — be labeled such
with clear language and unburied evidence. Racism, as we know, is not about
what lies in the depths of a human’s heart. It is about word and deed. And a
more aggressive commitment to truth from the press would empower our industry
to finally admit that."
From
A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led By Black Journalists - NYT
Wesley
Lowery has 2 Pulitzer Prizes
I
read this other investigative journalist’s account of what the wider SF
population THINKS is going on with “crime” in the larger city as opposed to
what is ACTUALLY going on (it’s down, unless we’re counting the insider trading,
which somehow never comes up in these contexts).
Then I read that the populace was basically being manipulated by a right wing billionaires’ effort to recall the progressive DA, and it made much more sense – but it wouldn’t have if the journalist hadn’t deconstructed this incredibly subtle data manipulation that the right wingers did in order to get casual readers to reach the wrong objective result, just by manipulating the data and the narrative and playing to their prejudices.
I
hope the first few panels here, with the hints at how the numbers were
manipulated, will encourage people to read the rest of the thread …
…
because as a society we’re going to need to get much better at this level of critical reading, way before the
midterms
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