This is going to be a short blog post on a CAIR-hyped story about Islamophobia last month.
Here’s the CAIR link: CAIR-Cleveland Seeks Hate Crime Probe After Vehicular Assault on Palestinian-American by Driver Shouting ‘Kill all Palestinians,’ ‘Long live Israel’
Here’s a November 15th update: North Olmsted man accused of faking hate crime attack near North Ridgeville.
I saw this news story of the update a few days ago and so far CAIR Ohio still has this story up as a hate crime, with no update.
Once people buy into the hate crime narrative the media and various organizations hype for political reasons, it’s very hard to convince many people those narratives were lies. In Ferguson, years ago, the entire “Hand up, don’t shoot” narrative was a lie. Many of the media’s Trump narratives were lies (and I don’t even like Trump, but I can admit a lot of the media narratives were lies) and this is how it goes with the news media.
Corrections get little to no coverage.
In Ukraine, and now with the Hamas/Israeli conflict the level of propaganda is so pervasive on both sides and then with other political groups and countries’ information operations trying to spin things, that I don’t have any idea what is true and what’s not. Our news media does a terrible job at reporting on these highly contentious conflicts.
It’s best to be very skeptical about all news reporting these days and this goes for all the political pundits too – even the ones you like. No one is immune from the bandwagon effect. In our media culture virtue-signaling boosts popularity and ratings and although the viewpoints that appeal to the left and right differ – the effect is the same. If you tout the views that are red meat to your partisan side, well, that will resonate with your followers. viewers, and get clicks.
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