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The Pain and Madness of America’s Racist Present-Past Journalism Platforming
CNN Leader Lets Woman Get Trump-Beaten
First Reaction to the Trump town hall: Please fire “new” leader for Bigot of CNN. CNN Licht shamelessly plumped up a female host knowing she would be attacked and torn down. He got a crowd together to laugh at her. It is despicable how CNN “leader” Chris Licht is a sick piece of garbage.
That is the first reaction a lot of people had, and I still retain. I don’t think I can change mine or even want to. But why can’t the media act morally? Could there be a connection to its past, its one hundred year’s of reporting on lynching, picturing it, with a north and west just reading and watching this weekly spectacle, as though they couldn’t morally figure out how to stop it from happening?
These pictures and articles about lynching and graphic burning of black Americans happened not once or twice, but routinely. Newspapers were filled with the words, if not always the images. The descriptions though were depraved enough. Unlike the newspapers of Socialist Germany under Adolf that was not printing the atrocities of Jewish murders by whites, who instead hid gruesome details of it from the public, the American media was fully complicit. They published and published and published, inuring and anesthetizing the public outside the South…