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Why Does CNN Hate Police?

Posted on | July 11, 2016 | 12 Comments

 

CNN’s role in creating the Black Lives Matter movement cannot be ignored. Back in 2012, it was CNN that turned the Trayvon Martin case into such a national media carnival, and after George Zimmerman was acquitted, the network went scouting around for other “social justice” sagas to exploit for ratings. This led eventually to CNN’s 24/7 saturation coverage of the Michael Brown shooting. Focusing the media spotlight on Ferguson caused riots there, and then CNN covered the riots.

Civil disorder is good for CNN’s ratings, apparently, so network executives are trying to cause as much civil disorder as possible.

People get shot all the time in America, but CNN only pays attention to shootings that fit a certain narrative. The endless carnage of black-on-black violent crime? Not newsworthy, according to CNN. More than 300 people have been shot to death in Chicago so far this year, and more than 250 of the victims were black, but CNN ignores that bloodshed, because it can’t be exploited by “social justice” activists blaming racist cops.

“So what I think is very important for you to understand just like there are rogue cops who shoot black people for sport.”
— Angela Rye, CNN, July 8

“Turn off your TV!” I want to shout at people who let themselves get worked into a frenzy over this stuff. “Cable news is making you crazy!”

No one ever seems to question the basic editorial decisions behind this kind of coverage. More than 100 people were shot last week in Chicago, but that’s just another average week in Chicago. Because this happens routinely, it is not news, and nobody cares:

Chicago, for all intents and purposes, is a “gun-free zone.”
But all the state and city regulations associated with firearms in Chicago have failed to produce a safe city, and these are the policies that President Obama and Secretary Clinton wish to extend to the rest of the country.

The streets of Chicago are covered in blood:

Weekend gun violence in Chicago pushed the number of people shot in the city this year to around 2,100, about 700 more than this time last year.
A total of 43 people were shot in the city over the weekend, four of them fatally. Nineteen of those were shot during an 11-hour stretch Friday night into Saturday morning, including two men wounded on a crowded sidewalk outside a taco restaurant in Wicker Park, according to police.
Late Saturday, a 21-year-old man was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded as they played basketball in Ogden Park in Englewood on the South Side, police said.
Between Friday into Saturday morning, two men died and at least 17 others were wounded; another man was killed and 15 people were hurt from Saturday morning to early Sunday; a fourth man was killed and seven were wounded in shootings Sunday afternoon and evening.

While the death toll in Chicago is strictly local news, CNN continues exploiting “social justice” for ratings and also, partisan politics:

Hillary Clinton wasted little time in assigning responsibility for Thursday’s shooting in Dallas that left five police officers dead — blame whitey!
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” Mrs. Clinton told CNN Friday. “Clearly, there seems to be a terrible disconnect between many police departments and officers and the people they have sworn to protect.”
Exactly what “legitimate grievances” motivated cop-hating gunman Micah Xavier Johnson were not specified by the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Nor did Mrs. Clinton explain why reports of wrongful police actions in Louisiana and Minnesota should have led to bloodshed in Dallas, where the police chief is a black man and law enforcement officials have striven to build trust in the community. Yet the former Secretary of State’s misplaced concerns were not disputed by the interviewer Wolf Blitzer, whose network’s bias is so blatant that Democrats who supported Bernie Sanders in this year’s primary campaign revived the longstanding Republican claim that CNN is an acronym for “Clinton News Network.”
Being pro-Clinton requires CNN and other establishment media outlets to conform their coverage to fit whatever narrative serves the “permanent campaign” mode that Democrats have maintained since Bill Clinton was inaugurated more than 20 years ago, after he received a mere 43 percent of the vote in the three-way election of 1992. Liberal journalists have never ceased singing along with the Fleetwood Mac tune that was the Clinton campaign theme song, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” expressing their shared hope that the future would bring eternal Democratic control of the federal government. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.




 

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12 Responses to “Why Does CNN Hate Police?”

  1. marcus tullius cicero
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:01 am

    …Transforming America, replacing one dead citizen with one illegal and one muslim at a time…do the math!

  2. Dana
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:02 am

    As I noted here, — shameless blog plug alert — the professional media are perfectly willing to highlight a story in which a black American murders a white American, as long as the victim is a cute white girl.

  3. DeadMessenger
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:03 am

    CNN lives in outer darkness. They hate everything that is good and virtuous, or at least, they hate facts. And science. To them, what is good is by definition evil, and what is evil is good. Their franchise suffers financially, but that’s ok when you’re simply seeking to become the official state propaganda arm of the Clinton Dictatorship™.

  4. Elmer Jones
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:20 am

    Have the liberals constantly admonishing whites to have a conversation about race with black people ever actually done it themselves?

  5. CrustyB
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:27 am

    BLM trying to disarm police officers at the Taste of Chicago food fest disruption. Apparently this terrorist organization is over their mourning period for the slain Dallas police officers.
    https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160711/downtown/taste-protest-leader-jamal-green-tried-disarm-officer-police-say

  6. Dana
    July 11th, 2016 @ 11:50 am

    No, of course not, because that would require them to actually go to their neighborhoods.

  7. Steve Skubinna
    July 11th, 2016 @ 12:17 pm

    If they’re in the outer darkness, they could at least rend their garments and gnash their teeth.

  8. Adobe_Walls
    July 11th, 2016 @ 6:49 pm

    Progies also think that Islamic Terrorists have legitimate grievances that we need to have a dialogue with them about, we know they haven’t done that.

  9. DeadMessenger
    July 12th, 2016 @ 3:50 am

    I’d literally go blind if I watched any of them rend their garments.

  10. Steve Skubinna
    July 12th, 2016 @ 9:15 am

    You wouldn’t see them.

    Outer darkness, remember?

  11. DeadMessenger
    July 12th, 2016 @ 11:31 am

    I’d sense the rending, and then imagery would be brought to mind. But after the Rapture, then rend away.

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