Media outlets have been releasing a lot about the Waukesha massacre over the last week. It claimed at least six lives and injured more than 60 people. While children continue to fight for their lives in the streets, media outlets like The Washington Post rush to minimize the tragedy with deliberate obfuscation. Instead of spreading the alleged killer’s name and mugshot far and wide as they do in many other situations, the SUV itself has taken most of the blame.
(see How Media Labels the Waukesha Massacre
Of course, that’s when they are bothering to mention the story at all. On Sunday, less then a week later, the Waukesha massacre seemed to have disappeared completely from news headlines. What replaced it was more mouth-breathing about Kyle Rittenhouse (a far less newsworthy story in the grand scheme of things) and hysteria over the “Omicron” variant of COVID.
CNN managed to post one tweet about the tragedy yesterday. This is quite impressive when you compare it to the other intentionally misleading tweets on this subject.
Waukesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores of others.https://t.co/QMNccpBI0y
— CNN (@CNN) November 28, 2021
Note, this isn’t last Monday we are talking about. CNN could be forgiven for tweeting such an innocuous message, thinking they didn’t have enough information. Yet, we now know the perpetrator’s identity. We know his identity from the mugshots. Pictures of him inside the courtroom are available. We also have his social media histories, which include numerous racist rants as well as talking about the desire to kill white people. Also, we know that this was something he planned. CNN still presents the illusion that it was an accident. It’s truly vile.
Even worse, the disinformation they spread only builds upon their existing disinformation. After CNN put their latest tweet out, multiple people rushed to opine that Darrell Brooks was just “fleeing” from the police and that there was no intent to kill, a lie started originally by CNN a week ago. That’s completely untrue, and we’ve known since the day after the massacre that Brooks was not being pursued. He also drove into the parade in his car, zig-zagging and hitting more people with it.
CNN’s effect pic.twitter.com/1GyhWgB8NE
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 29, 2021
A week later, CNN’s original false report, which started the entire “he was fleeing and this was an accident” narrative, is still being repeated, and their latest reporting only further bolsters that bit of disinformation. That’s quite the cycle they are perpetuating.
A phrase should be created that describes the heinous behavior of an organization that claims to be a news source. “Enemy of the people” has a nice ring to it.
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