Isn’t it amazing how the mainstream media’s narratives never change. Even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Take gang violence in our cities. When gangs shoot up public places, the mainstream media usually cover the story aggressively, with a pillow that is, until it stops moving.
Take the gang-violence incident in Kansas City, Missouri. At the celebration for the KC Chiefs winning the Super Bowl, some gang members traded words, insults and “disrespect.” Of course, in their world, impugning a gang banger’s reputation or “disrespecting” him is, for them, grounds to pull out their guns and start shooting.
And the mainstream media reports it as “gun violence” instead of using a better descriptor: gang violence.
Take USA Today’s “coverage”:
In US, celebrations can quickly become tragedies when gun violence erupts
A Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Missouri, has become another joyful celebration marred by gun violence in the United States, a lurking danger that hovers over Americans as they gather together to celebrate, honor and commemorate.
The chance that a single event might become the scene of violence is relatively small, but tragedy after tragedy has become a part of the national psyche. Meanwhile, some politicians and advocates are again questioning where in America it is truly safe to gather in celebration.
Then they go on to bring up the Las Vegas terror attack:
In 2017 a gunman shot more than 11,000 rounds of ammunition at an outdoor country music concert near his Las Vegas hotel as fans crouched in terror, killing 60.
And the police, both local and at the FBI buried the man’s true motives. We’ll give you a hint: he was a Muslim. And The Atlantic, a known bastion of hard-hitting investigative reporting (cough), mocks the idea that it was a Muslim terror attack.
This morning, the Islamic State’s semi-official news agency, Amaq, took credit for the Las Vegas massacre, which killed 58 and wounded another 515. The likely killer, identified by police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, was not known to be a supporter of the Islamic State, or indeed a Muslim of any type. For now, the only evidence that the Islamic State was involved is its own assurance—first a press release announcing that a “soldier of the Islamic State” executed the concertgoers, and a follow-up for the baffled, explaining that he converted to Islam months ago. The FBI has stated that it doesn’t believe the attack was related to international terrorism.
And the USA Today brings up the Highland Park massacre in their very next sentence:
In 2022, a man with a rifle fired into a July 4th parade outside Chicago. Parents frantically ran, some holding their children and seven died.
A “man” more aptly described as a social misfit loser who dressed as a woman. He committed the murders in a gun-free zone, no less.
And now, a couple of days later, the AP cracks open the true motive behind the attack with a partial sentence description, without calling it what it truly was. But Americans aren’t stupid:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday.
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