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rostasi 07-12-2020 12:12 PM

A bit disingenuous with funny smells.
I'll wait to find out who it was that shot her
and why others have been shot at the same location.

SGR 07-12-2020 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2125974)
A bit disingenuous with funny smells.
I'll wait to find out who it was that shot her
and why others have been shot at the same location.

Agreed. Treat every news story with skepticism. The business model of news orgs is to sensationalize to create clicks and shares.

Frownland 07-12-2020 12:38 PM

Ja I don't believe that news story either. Only three words from the 3 AM public confrontation between strangers that escalated to both sides exchanging fire were included in the article, which seems conveniently selective.

SGR 07-12-2020 12:54 PM

I don't know about y'all, but I've noticed a distinct decrease in reporting about the protests in the recent weeks. If I only paid attention to most mainstream outlets, I wouldn't even know it was still happening.

Take a look at CNN's website - nothing about protests.

https://www.cnn.com/

Fox News? One story really related to the protests, others about Russian protests (unrelated) and the protests effect on Coronavirus resurgence.

Something less biased - USA Today? Nothing.

https://www.usatoday.com/

APNews? One link about US protests.

https://apnews.com/

I am not generally a conspiracy theorist, but it would seem that all news outlets are tampering down the stories about the protests and it looks intentional across the board. It's literally the biggest news story in the country, besides Coronavirus, I think. Are people simply not interested in it any more and these news outlets have made a financial decision not to cover it because of that lack of interest?

If people are still interested (I think they are), why won't the news continue covering it? Did the Trump administration put a bug in their ears to tone down the coverage? Did they all decide to do it because they thought it would decrease the scale of the protests? Or do some outlets (i.e. left-biased ones) not cover because they think Americans constantly reading about protests would boost Trump's chances in the election? It is also entirely possible that right-biased news outlets aren't covering it because they think it'll increase Biden's chances in the election.

I don't know. But I do know the protests are still happening in many places around the country and we're getting very little coverage about it from the mainstream press. What I'd like to know is - why?

OccultHawk 07-12-2020 08:51 PM

Lisa Marie Presley's son and Elvis Presley's look-alike grandson, Benjamin Keough, 27, dies 'from self-inflicted gunshot wound' leaving his heartbroken mom 'inconsolable'

Frownland 07-13-2020 07:16 AM

21 injured after an explosion and fire on a naval ship in San Diego

****'s still burning and it's got San Diego so polluted that it hurts to breathe if you're outside for more than a few minutes. I'm miles inland too so it's probably absolutely ****ed closer to the shore.

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2125984)
I don't know. But I do know the protests are still happening in many places around the country and we're getting very little coverage about it from the mainstream press. What I'd like to know is - why?

The cool thing about this particular history repeating itself is that we have notes


The Batlord 07-13-2020 07:34 AM

I thought the revolution wouldn't be televised cause the world would be too busy burning for anyone to have the luxury of sitting down and watching it on TV.

Frownland 07-13-2020 07:37 AM

Nah it's because everyone's on their phones now.

OccultHawk 07-13-2020 07:54 AM

lol @ the Navy

Norg 07-14-2020 12:20 AM

the USA mimics old Britian the royal navy

now the USA has the most powerful Navy in the world

but China navy seems to be creping up


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