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Heavily Armed and Out of Balance
How the Media Makes Trans-militias Balance with Supremacist Ones
The same respected paper on the same day prints two articles that tell us it looks like each “extreme” of the right and left is arming themselves with AR-15 for the coming Civil War in one and is also telling us in the other there’s no evidence of left-wing militias. That is how desperate the media is to create balance in America that media outlets like the Washington Post can’t even see their own editorial bias, which results in vast disinformation.
For starters, the Post is running a great series of professionally researched articles on the AR-15 and the cult around it. It is quality reporting so I can’t call it “fake media.” But then one of those articles emerges from ‘editorial shaping’ with the headline “The radicals’ rifle.” It continues with the sub headline that shapes the article by providing false balance, “Armed groups on the right and left exploit the AR-15 as both tool and symbol”.
My first reaction to the “both sidism” media balance that every rational news outlet pushed on us — the viewers and consumers — is “Liars.” Sure, it makes me sound like a radical. But I know the truth, the facts they do NOT provide in the story: Transgenders probably account for 0.0001% of the AR-15s owned in America.