Anarchy ravages US cities, so why is our media ignoring it?
by Kathy Gyngell, The Conservative Woman:
JACK Crowe, news editor of the American website National Review, headlined his news round-up on Monday with a series of alarming stories which you may not have heard about if you live in Britain.
He wrote: ‘The familiar pattern of politicised violence resumed this weekend after a brief respite in most major American cities.’
He told how Chicago police shot a young man on Sunday afternoon after he fired at them while attempting to evade arrest. ‘Hours later, a mob – inflamed by the lie that the cops had shot and wounded a child – laid siege to Chicago’s downtown commercial district, Magnificent Mile.’
The rioters ransacked stores, broke windows and tore cash machines out of bank walls.
JACK Crowe, news editor of the American website National Review, headlined his news round-up on Monday with a series of alarming stories which you may not have heard about if you live in Britain.
He wrote: ‘The familiar pattern of politicised violence resumed this weekend after a brief respite in most major American cities.’
[…] Where is the reporting of this American descent into violent chaos in the British mainstream media? Despite full coverage of presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his possible running mate, the state of the nation these two may be running is given next to no attention here. Would our news editors rather not know?
A quick search of the Telegraph and the BBC brought up nothing, while the Times produced only this narrowly-focused report on Chicago, which lacked national context.
People talk of fake news. But all too often the real bias is simply the one of omission.
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