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We Need to Talk About How the Media Is Labeling the Waukesha Massacre – Opinion

By Pluralist / November 24, 2021

In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Waukesha, Wisconsin car plowing attack Sunday that left six dead and at least 62 injured, the mainstream media seemed very eager to downplay the possibility that the massacre could be an intentional act, especially after finding out that they would be unable to blame what happened on white supremacy due to the fact that suspect Darrell E. Brooks Jr is a black man who apparently doesn’t think too highly of white people and has a violent criminal history.

Initially, the MSM seemed content on settling for the unconfirmed rumors that Brooks was “fleeing the scene” of some sort of alleged knife fight when he plowed into the festive Christmas parade full of citizens of all ages. The Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson quickly dismissed these reports. He stated that Brooks had not fled from police before ramming into the crowd in his SUV and that he actually left a domestic dispute not too long prior.

Unfortunately, since then the media have not stopped with their predictable yet infuriating antics on this story, clearly frustrated that they can’t default to the usual narratives they try to when a mass tragedy of this type happens in our country. As evidence, let’s take a look at how some have labeled what we now know according to the charging documents was a deliberateAttack on Waukesha’s residents

NBC News referred to it as an “accident”:

An MSNBC analyst also referred to is as an “accident”:

Newsweek and the Associated Press both used the word “crash” in their headlines:

CNN’s Waukesha was completely removed from their homepage Tuesday. They did post four stories on former President Trump, and one about labeling cranberry sauce containers.

To see how it looked today, I visited the CNN homepage. It had one Waukesha article. Brooks: How were they referred? As a “crash suspect”:

Needless to say, based on everything we know at this point the car plowing was no “accident” and it wasn’t merely a “crash.” It’s also a story that deserves to stay on the front pages of every major news outlet in this country, as it would be if the media’s standard default narratives actually proved right in this case.

But they don’t. And as a result, we’re seeing a despicable downplaying of what happened in Waukesha and, perhaps even worse, the memory-holing of this story is happening right before our very eyes.

While the MSM is, sadly, doing their thing, we’ll continue doing our thing by calling them out on it every single time.

Please remember, as we approach the holiday season and the possibility of losing a loved one, to send your condolences and thoughts. These are the names and addresses of the victims who were killed on Sunday.

Wilhelm Hospel, 81
Virginia Sorenson is 79
Leanna Owen, 71
Tamara Durand, 52
Jane Kulich, 52
Jackson Sparks, 8

Many people are still being treated in hospitals, with some in very serious condition. All those affected by the act of intentional violence are in our thoughts and prayers.

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