{"id":555918,"date":"2021-06-07T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555918"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:51:10","slug":"media-now-acknowledge-portland-violence-is-real-after-spending-year-deriding-those-who-reported-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-now-acknowledge-portland-violence-is-real-after-spending-year-deriding-those-who-reported-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Now Acknowledge Portland Violence Is Real After Spending Year Deriding Those Who Reported It"},"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%2Fmedia-now-acknowledge-portland-violence-is-real-after-spending-year-deriding-those-who-reported-it%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=555918&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\/06\/GettyImages-1228384888.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Portland, Oregon, has been one of the hotspots for political violence over the past few years, mostly due to the ongoing threat from violent left-wing group Antifa that has pretty much been granted free rein over the city, but also due to de-policing policies adopted in the wake of the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Using racial unrest as an excuse, rioters have destroyed businesses and committed numerous crimes while the media insisted these were \u201cmostly peaceful protests.\u201d Now, The Washington Post has finally acknowledged, in a way, that this was the wrong narrative.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/anarchists-and-an-increase-in-crime-hijack-portlands-social-justice-movement\/2021\/05\/28\/d49ee1b6-bf1a-11eb-a55f-4871b8ac676f_story.html\">article<\/a> by Post reporter Scott Wilson insists Portland had a good ol\u2019 fashioned social justice movement that was simply \u201chijacked\u201d by anarchists and violent criminals, ignoring that the movement had been full of those types since the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn\u2019t even mention Antifa\u2019s role in the violence that has taken hold of Portland. Had the Post followed the work of journalist Andy Ngo, it would have known what has happened in Portland. But media outlets ignored Ngo or simply dismissed him as some sort of right-wing fabulist.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s mild report on how Portland violence is hurting minority communities \u2013 something the Right has insisted for years would happen \u2013 shows that maybe, just maybe, Ngo and other conservative reporters have been right all along.<\/p>\n<p>The Post focuses on the past year and the fact that most of the so-called protesters are white, middle-class young people playing revolutionaries. These wannabes \u201chave made places such as churches, public libraries, small Black-owned businesses and a Boys &#038; Girls Club the confounding targets of their vandalism,\u201d the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet hints at the rising violence in the city ahead of the coronavirus pandemic and Floyd\u2019s death without mentioning the years Antifa has been active in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been demonized in Portland and beyond, leading to Portland\u2019s City Council cutting $27 million from the police budget ($15 million due to the \u201cdefund\u201d movement and another $11 million or so because of the pandemic). The cuts have resulted in a shortage of police officers and more than 120 leaving the department.<\/p>\n<p>New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait tweeted out the Post article, bringing large-scale attention to it on social media. Now that the opening salvo has been released, it wouldn\u2019t surprise me to see more articles from the establishment media acknowledging the detrimental effects that largely unchecked violence has had on American cities. The media\u2019s year-long narrative that these were simply peaceful protests demanding reforms and protection against racism was never accurate, but that was the narrative the media chose and everything else was ignored. To demonstrate the disconnect, last August, the Post published an article titled \u201cViolent protest clashes turned Portland into a \u2018right-wing boogeyman.\u2019 Here\u2019s how it happened.\u201d Other Post articles from the past couple years only cover the violence when right-wing group Proud Boys were involved.<\/p>\n<p>The whole episode is reminiscent of the media\u2019s sudden turn on the theory that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Last year, when Republicans such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested that <em>maybe<\/em> the virus escaped from the Chinese lab that just so happened to be studying it and where the first outbreak occurred, he was chastised as a conspiracy theorist, with liberal pundits claiming the theory had been \u201cdebunked\u201d without enough evidence to make such a declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Joe Biden, a Democrat, is in office, the theory isn\u2019t so crazy. In fact, the media is now demanding a real investigation into the origins of the virus, something that was labeled a conspiracy theory when Donald Trump, a Republican, was demanding it.<\/p>\n<p>It shows that truth doesn\u2019t matter to these outlets, only the narrative, and that narrative is dependent on whether a Democrat or Republican is pushing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, Oregon, has been one of the hotspots for political violence over the past few years, mostly due to the ongoing threat from violent left-wing group Antifa that has pretty &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279516,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1228384888.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Media Now Acknowledge Portland Violence Is Real After Spending Year Deriding Those Who Reported It","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228384888.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Media Now Acknowledge Portland Violence Is Real After Spending Year Deriding Those Who Reported It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555918","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=555918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}