A Critique of American Media

For John, BLUF:  The same basic sitution and two very different takes by the same news outfit.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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BLM-Loving NYTimes: Canadian Trucker Vax Protest ‘Scene of Disruption and Desecration’

From News Busters, by Reporter Clay Waters, 10 February 2022, 10:06 AM.

Here is the lede plus one:

The Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa against vaccine mandates and overzealous Covid restrictions is certainly not getting the fawning Black Lives Matter treatment from The New York Times.  Tuesday’s front-page story was crammed with contempt for the protesters, smeared for allegedly committing the same sort of acts that BLM protesters did during the often violent nationwide protests after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020:  Theft, disruption, and “desecration” of statues.

The headline under a story by Catherine Porter, Ian Austen and Sheera Frenkel upped the sense of danger, throwing in a “far-right” in the front-page headline “Ottawa Protests Become Rallying Cry for Far-Right and Anti-Vaccine Groups.”  The “far-left” is barely if ever noticed by The Times

it speaks for itself.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff