{"id":239310,"date":"2021-03-17T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239310"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:31:24","slug":"the-media-outlets-that-gave-a-pass-to-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-outlets-that-gave-a-pass-to-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Outlets That Gave A Pass To Black Lives Matter And Antifa Violence"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthe-media-outlets-that-gave-a-pass-to-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-violence%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=239310&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1614.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As riots broke out over the summer following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police, many media organizations adopted a sympathetic approach toward covering the violence that wracked the nation\u2019s cities, effectively giving a pass to agitators who incited deadly demonstrations that leveled downtowns.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a year later, the nation\u2019s most prominent outlets have not corrected that narrative, even as last year\u2019s numerous deadly clashes and property destruction is projected to cost insurance companies up to&nbsp;$2 billion in an economy already groaning under the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The day after Floyd\u2019s death, rioters in Minneapolis took to the streets, shattering storefronts and burning police cars as they clashed with law enforcement. Similar violent demonstrations broke out in New York City, Portland, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, mainstream outlets published headline after headline declaring the demonstrations to be \u201cpeaceful protests,\u201d even as the violence turned deadly and as marching and chanting turned to burning and looting.<\/p>\n<p>In late July,&nbsp;CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/protest-austin-texas-shooting-aurora-colorado-seattle-portland\/\">described<\/a>&nbsp;the details of violent demonstrations around the nation, some of them deadly, and blamed the descent into violence on then-President Trump\u2019s decision to send federal officers into some metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most memorable instance of the media narrative that the protests were largely peaceful came in May from MSNBC\u2019s Ali Velshi, who stood in front of a burning liquor store in Minneapolis and downplayed the destruction clearly visible behind him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear in how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly, but fires have been started and there\u2019s a crowd that is relishing that,\u201d Velshi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.air.tv\/watch?v=7xMUyvX-RamyH-YXu_I8XQ\">told<\/a>&nbsp;MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.&nbsp;\u201cThere is a deep sense of&nbsp;grievance and complaint here,&nbsp;and that is the thing, that when you discount people who are&nbsp;doing things to public property&nbsp;that they shouldn\u2019t be doing, it&nbsp;does have to be understood that&nbsp;this city has got, for the last&nbsp;several years, an issue with&nbsp;police, and it\u2019s got a real&nbsp;sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just beforehand, Velshi said he could see \u201cat least four fires\u201d from where he was standing and pointed to the Third Precinct&nbsp;police station, which was set ablaze that night, May 28, when rioters decided to&nbsp;\u201ctry and take that police station from the police,\u201d after which they started two liquor store fires.&nbsp;Velshi added, however, that \u201cfor most of the day\u201d the demonstrations had looked \u201ca lot calmer\u201d than they had the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of August, CNN was ridiculed for an on-air graphic attempting to make a similar point, that the protests were largely peaceful even as a fire burned in the background of a live shot.<\/p>\n<p>The network ran a chyron at the bottom of the screen&nbsp;reading, \u201cFiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting\u201d as CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez stood&nbsp;in front of a large blaze in&nbsp;Kenosha, Wisconsin, where unrest erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.<\/p>\n<p>ABC was also mocked in July for publishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1287396378407243777\">report<\/a>&nbsp;and a tweet stating that a \u201cpeaceful demonstration intensified\u201d in Oakland, California when demonstrators&nbsp;set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station, and assaulted police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland police <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oaklandpoliceca\/status\/1287283099261259776\">declared<\/a> the July 25 riot an \u201cunlawful assembly\u201d and said some in the crowd were throwing projectiles and pointing illegal lasers at officers.<\/p>\n<p>While the forgiving language might be less surprising from certain media organizations with a palpable political bent, even some outlets that purport to offer mostly unvarnished straight news handled the violence with a light touch.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC report that prompted laughter from critics originally came from the more subtly biased Associated Press, which used the same language saying a \u201cpeaceful demonstration intensified.\u201d ABC parroted the language in the network\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The AP dug its heels in a few months later at the end of September, when the AP Stylebook, whose guidelines are adhered to as gospel by outlets nationwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APStylebook\/status\/1311357910715371520\">instructed<\/a> journalists to avoid using the term \u201criot\u201d to describe the violent unrest sweeping the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFocusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality, or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s,\u201d the AP stated in new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The updated guidelines also advised that a \u201cprotest\u201d can be either \u201clegal or illegal\u201d as well as \u201cpeaceful or violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another wire service that publishes ostensibly cut-and-dry news articles, Reuters, in September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-global-race-usa-protests\/despite-trumps-law-and-order-rhetoric-protesters-wont-back-down-idUSKBN2621C3\">lamented<\/a> the situation of anti-racism protesters calling for equal justice, saying that \u201cfor all their peaceful protests, scenes of burning buildings will hand U.S. President Donald Trump the images he needs for his \u2018law and order\u2019 re-election campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC decried the characterization of the demonstrations as violent in a September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/not-accident-false-thug-narratives-have-long-been-used-discredit-n1240509\">article<\/a>, declaring it \u201call part of an effort to rewrite the history of peaceful movements, tarnishing legitimate protests with the specter of violence,\u201d adding that, \u201cin the case of Black Lives Matter, it is notably false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That article also included a lengthy section citing research backing up the claim that former President Trump\u2019s use of the word \u201cthug\u201d to describe violent demonstrators has racial implications. However, it acknowledges that former&nbsp;President Obama and Baltimore Mayor&nbsp;Stephanie Rawlings-Blake both also used the term in 2015&nbsp;to describe demonstrators who rioted in the wake of Freddie Gray\u2019s death in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the television news networks, the New York Times and&nbsp;Washington Post also refrained from using language that evoked the idea of violence in their coverage of the riots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtests, Mostly Peaceful, Continue Across the Country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000007173530\/protests-new-york-washington-los-angeles.html\">read<\/a> one Times headline on June 4, when Portland had been enveloped in nightly violence for a full week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, questions about members of Antifa, a militant anti-fascist movement, infiltrating protests and contributing to the violence went largely uninvestigated and unreported by mainstream outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTangible evidence of Antifa\u2019s involvement is scant,\u201d read a June 22 fact-check by the Post. The difficulty in ascertaining Antifa\u2019s involvement is partly due to the fact that \u201cAntifa is a moniker, not a single group with a clear organizational structure or leader,\u201d the analysis stated, contrary to information provided by law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said on June 4 that \u201canarchists like Antifa and other agitators\u201d are \u201cexploiting this situation to pursue violent, extremist agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals have set out to sow discord and upheaval rather than join in the righteous pursuit of equality and justice,\u201d Wray said.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/nypds-terrorism-chief-says-unnamed-groups-planned-protest-violence-in-advance\/2440722\/?amp\">New York<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2020\/05\/30\/cheif-schubert-floyd-protests-comments\/\">Pittsburgh<\/a> also said they were fairly confident that \u201canarchist\u201d elements had infiltrated protests in their cities and contributed to the violence.<\/p>\n<p>At least 19 people died in the George Floyd protests nationwide, and more than 14,000 people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, two of Floyd\u2019s grieving brothers called for peace even as riots continued to swell in cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m outraged too. Sometimes I get angry, I want to bust some heads too,\u201d Terrence Floyd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/george-floyds-brother-speaks-out-against-riots-my-brother-wasnt-about-that\/\">said<\/a> on ABC. \u201cMy brother wasn\u2019t about that. My brother was about peace. You\u2019ll hear a lot of people say he was a gentle giant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf his own family and blood is trying to deal with it and be positive about it and go another route to seek justice, then why are you out here tearing up your community?\u201d Floyd said, adding,&nbsp;\u201cJust relax. Justice will be served.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Floyd\u2019s other brother, Rodney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/george-floyd-protest-violence\/\">said<\/a> around the same time that peace is \u201cthe best option we have to bring justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, many powerful media outlets continued to insist that Black Lives Matter\u2019s actives were essentially peaceful. Eventually, some who dealt with the fallout of the summer\u2019s protests disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>In late July, Daryl Breaux <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/protest-austin-texas-shooting-aurora-colorado-seattle-portland\/\">expressed<\/a> his disgruntlement with Black Lives Matter after his car was seriously damaged during a demonstration in Seattle, saying the violence was obscuring the positive message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost 45 years I\u2019ve been black. This is what Black Lives Matter does? I\u2019m not with it,\u201d Breaux said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As riots broke out over the summer following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police, many media organizations adopted a sympathetic approach toward covering the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310688,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1614.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Outlets That Gave A Pass To Black Lives Matter And Antifa Violence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1614.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Outlets That Gave A Pass To Black Lives Matter And Antifa Violence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}