{"id":2084917,"date":"2023-10-31T04:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-brutal-hockey-killing-was-a-freak-accident-daniel-penny-would-like-a-word\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T04:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:14:33","slug":"if-brutal-hockey-killing-was-a-freak-accident-daniel-penny-would-like-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-brutal-hockey-killing-was-a-freak-accident-daniel-penny-would-like-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Penny wants to discuss the brutal hockey killing, dismissing it as a mere accident."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-brutal-hockey-killing-was-a-freak-accident-daniel-penny-would-like-a-word%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2084917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Media Bias: A \u2062Tale of Two Neck Injuries<\/h2>\n<p>Corporate \u200bmedia immediately erupted after \u2064a man\u2062 died in what\u200c appeared to be a freak accident.\u2062 Specifically, a man of one particular skin color died of a neck \u200dinjury\u200c inflicted \u2064by\u200c a man\u2062 with a\u2064 different\u200d skin color \u2014 details that\u200b typically matter a \u200cgreat deal to our journalist class.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, however, the death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/16\/opinion\/neely-penny-perry-rittenhouse-desantis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no accident<\/a>. Rather, it was \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/20\/daniel-penny-is-not-a-vigilante-but-the-left-cant-stop-pretending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vigilante\u2062 violence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/daniel-penny-jordan-neely-new-york-subway-death-republicans-rcna84736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brutality<\/a>, and an example of deep-seated racism. &#8220;Given the races of the men, \u200dit\u2019s easy to\u2063 see how this\u200d development could be lumped together with other examples\u2062 of racial injustice,&#8221; wrote LZ\u2064 Granderson in \u200da Los Angeles Times\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2023-05-12\/charging-daniel-penny-in-jordan-neelys-death-is-just-a-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> about how\u2064 charging \u200bthe \u2064offender &#8220;is just a start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1398448563\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c53b01b4281f1935f2bf2122873d217d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c53b01b4281f1935f2bf2122873d217d\"><\/div>\n<p>In case there\u2019s any confusion, \u200bthe neck injury in question happened back in May on a New York City subway car when a homeless black\u2062 man named Jordan \u2062Neely acted in a threatening \u2064manner\u2063 toward fellow passengers. Recognizing his\u200c civic duty to \u2062protect himself\u200d and other innocents, another \u2063passenger, a 24-year-old white ex-Marine \u2064named \u2064Daniel Penny, restrained Neely with a chokehold to the \u2064gratitude of his fellow \u2064riders.<\/p>\n<p>Neely\u2064 was later \u200cpronounced\u2063 dead, and\u2064 after angry protests and a full-court press\u200c from our activist media, the former servicemember\u2064 was \u2064charged with second-degree manslaughter and negligent \u200dhomicide. If convicted, he could\u200c face up to 15 years \u200cin prison. Despite there being no \u200breason to assume\u200d a\u200c racial motivation on Penny\u2019s part,\u2062 the media\u200d campaign for\u200d &#8220;racial\u2064 justice&#8221; was a success.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward\u200c to this week, where headlines tell of another man, another neck injury, another\u200b death \u2014 this time \u200con a hockey rink.<\/p>\n<p>On \u200dSaturday, during a U.K. league game between the Nottingham Panthers and the Sheffield\u2063 Steelers, 29-year-old white American hockey \u200cplayer Adam \u200cJohnson\u200c suffered a gruesome slice to the neck by his opponent\u2019s skate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b1ba9f0eb96a222c7059ed5c55dbff8d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b1ba9f0eb96a222c7059ed5c55dbff8d\"><\/div>\n<p>The grisly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Anc_Aesthetics\/status\/1718816215055941690?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> isn\u2019t for the faint of \u200cheart. \u200bIn it,\u200d you can see Steelers player \u2063Matt Petgrave skate toward Johnson and, \u200dwith his leg in the air, slash his rival in\u200d the throat. Johnson \u2063immediately collapses before a\u2063 referee and teammate usher him off \u200bthe rink, a deluge \u200dof blood \u200bstreaming from his neck down the front of his \u2064jersey and leaving a thick crimson \u2063trail on\u200c the ice. The team announced on Sunday that\u200b he was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Petgrave, a 31-year-old black Canadian, has quite the \u200dtrack record of malfeasance in the \u200cElite Ice Hockey League, reportedly racking up the <a href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/a-professional-hockey-player-died-on-live-television--after-being-slashed-across-the-neck-with-a-skate-blade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most penalty minutes in 2022<\/a> and getting kicked out\u200b of\u200d games. Here\u2019s\u200d a \u2064report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/sport\/ice-hockey\/not-everyone-appears-to-be-a-fan-of-sheffield-steelers-star-matt-petgrave-3878459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Star<\/a> in the U.K. last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>He has \u2062been\u2063 booted \u200bout of two\u2064 out of the\u2062 last four \u200bgames, for\u2062 abuse \u200dof officials (against Coventry Blaze) and alleged spearing (Manchester Storm,) and \u200dis Sheffield\u2019s\u2062 top penalty-minute\u200c taker (71 in \u200d11 games.)<\/p>\n<p>Across the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/topic\/eihl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EIHL<\/a> regular league,\u200c as a whole, \u200bnobody comes close to his \u200cpenalty minutes tally.<\/p>\n<p>Last year he had a career-high of \u2063145 PIMS in 34 games with HK Spisska Nova Ves in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This time, \u200chowever, corrupt Western media all insist\u200d it was a &#8220;freak accident,&#8221; blaming Johnson\u2019s death on &#8220;getting cut in the neck\u200c by\u200d a skate.&#8221; (It\u2019s reminiscent of how the \u200cmedia covered the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre two years ago, blaming &#8220;a\u2062 red SUV&#8221; \u200binstead \u2062of the violent repeat offender driving the vehicle through a holiday parade route.) In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hockey-player-dies-adam-johnson-accident-nottingham-098abfe508a908cdc64bdf1b6d4f4e4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5009545\/2023\/10\/29\/adam-johnson-hockey-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/29\/sport\/adam-johnson-ice-hockey-death-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/former-nhl-star-adam-johnson-29-dies-freak-accident-uk-hockey-game-rcna122667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/news\/ex-penguins-player-adam-johnson-dies-at-29-after-freak-accident-during-elite-ice-hockey-league-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/american-hockey-player-adam-johnson-killed-during-game-in-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67255503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">include<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/38770208\/ex-nhl-player-adam-johnson-29-dies-freak-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Petgrave\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/oct\/29\/nottingham-panthers-ice-hockey-player-adam-johnson-dies-after-freak-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Those that did\u2063 identify Petgrave were \u2064quick to note\u200d that he is &#8220;absolutely distraught.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/2023\/10\/29\/matt-petgrave-hate-mail-adam-johnson-death-ice-hockey\/\">The Telegraph<\/a> lamented in one headline that &#8220;Ice \u2062hockey \u2064player\u2064 Matt Petgrave \u2063receives hate mail following death of Adam Johnson.&#8221; YorkshireLive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/ice-hockey-rallies-round-steelers-28005516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joined<\/a> \u200b in, \u2062cheering how &#8220;Ice hockey rallies round Sheffield Steelers player after tragic\u2064 fatal clash \u2064with Adam Johnson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f874da5bff5d80147409b75f9dbf8dac fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f874da5bff5d80147409b75f9dbf8dac\"><\/div>\n<p>If you look very\u200c closely, you can \u2062see a difference between \u2062how Western media covered\u2063 a \u200cwhite man dutifully restraining\u200b a black man in self-defense and a black\u2064 athlete\u200d with a history of vicious behavior brutally taking down his opponent with \u2064a literal blade. One\u2019s just a &#8220;freak accident.&#8221; The\u2062 other epitomizes brutality \u2063and racism.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, police\u2063 are investigating\u200d Johnson\u2019s death. While the prevailing narrative is that it was all just an unfortunate accident, some aren\u2019t buying it.\u2063 As one popular anonymous X user, Aesthetica,\u2064 wrote in a viral\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anc_Aesthetics\/status\/1718816215055941690\">post<\/a>,\u2063 &#8220;I\u2019ve played \u200bhockey my whole \u2064life, I\u2019ve\u2064 NEVER seen anything even remotely close to this sick and gruesome. \u2026 [T]here is no possible way this was an accident. Your body doesn\u2019t \u200bmove like this on the\u2062 ice\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave Petgraves\u2019 motives \u200cand intent up \u2063to a jury of his\u2064 peers, assuming charges are ever brought. But if the press gets its way, they \u2063won\u2019t be, and the court\u2064 of public opinion will exonerate.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does media bias influence the way incidents\u200b are \u2062framed and understood \u2064by the public?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  =xbdcPR&#8221;,\u200b target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noreferrer noopener&#8221;>incident<\/a> immediately \u2062drew\u2064 attention from\u2063 the media, but with a stark\u200c contrast to the previous case. No cries of racism, no calls for justice, and no demands for charges to be brought against the opponent. Instead, \u200cthe focus was on the unfortunate accident, the potential implications for hockey safety, and well-wishes for Johnson&#8217;s\u200c recovery.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2064stark difference\u2062 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-brutal-hockey-killing-was-a-freak-accident-daniel-penny-would-like-a-word\/\" title=\"Daniel Penny wants to discuss the brutal hockey killing, dismissing it as a mere accident.\">media coverage raises important \u2064questions<\/a> about media bias and\u200c how it shapes public\u200c perception and understanding of events. Why is one \u200dincident framed as \u200can act \u200cof racial violence and another as a tragic \u200caccident? Why is one man charged with manslaughter \u200band \u200cthe other viewed as a victim of circumstance?<\/p>\n<p>It is undeniable that media plays \u2063a crucial role in\u2062 shaping public\u2063 opinion. The way events are reported and framed influences how the\u2062 public interprets and understands those events.\u2063 In the case of the subway incident, the media narrative focused on racial injustice and systemic racism, effectively \u2062demonizing the white ex-Marine and painting him as a\u2062 symbol \u2063of societal oppression. On the\u200d other hand, the hockey incident was presented as an unfortunate\u200b accident, detached from any \u2063larger social or political context.<\/p>\n<p>This selective narrative \u2064creates a distorted view of reality and perpetuates \u200ba divisive and \u200bpolarized society. By \u2062framing \u200cincidents \u200din \u2062a \u200dway that\u2063 aligns with preconceived narratives, the media undermines its own credibility\u2063 and fails\u2063 in its duty to\u200b provide unbiased and objective reporting.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u2064essential for \u200bthe media to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-msnbc-caught-following-hamass-script-after-terror-attacks-on-israel\/\" title=\"MSNBC caught parroting Hamas's agenda post-Israel terror attacks.\">uphold journalistic integrity<\/a> and \u200dimpartiality, and to present all sides of a story \u200bwithout bias \u200bor agenda.\u200c The public\u200b relies on the \u200dmedia to inform\u2062 and \u2063educate them, and\u2064 this responsibility should \u2062not be\u2064 taken\u200c lightly. \u200cJournalism should be a \u2063tool \u200bfor truth-seeking,\u2063 not a means\u200b to advance personal or political\u2063 ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Media bias \u200bundermines \u200cthe trust \u200bbetween the media and\u200b the\u2064 public, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rock-bottom-cnn-tallies-its-lowest-key-demo-ratings-ever-recorded\/\" title=\"CNN hits rock bottom with its lowest-ever key demo ratings, according to CNN's latest tally.\">hinders \u2062meaningful dialogue<\/a> \u200cand\u2063 understanding. It is\u2062 time for\u2062 journalists to reflect on their role and responsibility \u200bin society \u200cand to strive for balance \u2062and fairness in their reporting.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion,\u2062 the divergent media coverage of \u200ctwo neck injuries highlights the \u200cissue of media bias and its\u2064 impact on public perception. The selective framing of \u2063incidents\u2064 based on race, politics, or other factors perpetuates a divisive and distorted narrative \u2062and undermines the credibility of the \u200cmedia. It is imperative for journalists to \u200cprioritize integrity, objectivity, and\u200b balance in their reporting to foster a more informed and \u200bunited society.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate media quickly reacted to the death of a man in a seemingly bizarre incident. The focus was on the victim&#8217;s skin color, which differed from the perpetrator&#8217;s, a detail that holds significant importance for our journalist community. 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