• @eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    Yeah, go look at all that media coverage, half of it is about making sure we get her pronouns right and the other half is blaming Christians for pushing her to the extreme in the first place

    There’s a clear narrative being pushed by the media and that particular event didn’t fit it. The entirety of the “coverage” was damage control

      • @eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml
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        01 year ago

        My brother in Christ, even articles like this are a far cry from this post’s “White Supremacist Killer” rhetoric. Look at these excerpts:

        Hale’s parents, who lived with the shooter, said Hale was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference Tuesday.

        Authorities continue to work to answer questions about who Hale was and the motive behind the school shooting. While the shooter’s gender identity is unclear, police told CNN that Hale was assigned female at birth and used “male pronouns” on social media.

        https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/us/audrey-hale-nashville-school-shooting/index.html

        A website that appears to be associated with Hale indicates that Hale was a Nashville-based graphic designer and illustrator who created logos and branding to “help tell a company’s story” and “bring a whimsical and light-hearted feel.”

        Officials said that Hale was being treated for an unspecified emotional disorder.

        Accordig to police, Hale’s alleged victims appeared to be randomly selected and the school and church building itself were the targets.

        Hale’s mother, Norma Hale, said, “It is very, very difficult right now” for the family, before asking for privacy.

        “I think I lost my daughter today,” she said.

        A neighbor of the family told ABC News that Audrey Hale lived at the family’s home with Hale’s parents, who the neighbor described as “very nice” and “very religious.”

        https://abcnews.go.com/US/nashville-shooter-audrey-hale/story?id=98166039

        A website that appears to be associated with Hale indicates that Hale was a Nashville-based graphic designer and illustrator who created logos and branding to “help tell a company’s story” and “bring a whimsical and light-hearted feel.”

        A police spokesperson told ABC News that Hale was assigned female at birth and pointed to a social media account linked to Hale that included use of the pronouns he/him.

        https://abcnews.go.com/US/nashville-shooter-audrey-hale/story?id=98166039

        Anything to avoid saying “Transgender Extremist Murders Christian Children”, which is what happened, end of story. There is a clear agenda from the media to demonize white straight men and elevate everybody else, regardless how heinous their actions

        • @PizzaMan@lemmy.worldOP
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          11 year ago

          Anything to avoid saying “Transgender Extremist Murders Christian Children”, which is what happened, end of story.

          Wording it like that is itself agenda driven. You don’t want accuracy, you just want the headlines to fit a specific agenda, one that derides trans people and plays towards the christian persecution fetish.

          There is a clear agenda from the media to demonize white straight men and elevate everybody else, regardless how heinous their actions

          There is no such agenda. Most shooters are white men, so most coverage is of white men.

          • @eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml
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            01 year ago

            Your misconstruing my statements. All I’m trying to say is that there’s a disparity between the way the media covers white men’s crimes and they way they cover the same type of crimes from minority groups, and that I think there should be more consistency from the people we trust to provide us information about what’s going on in the world

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              the way the media covers white men’s crimes and they way they cover the same type of crimes from minority groups

              Yeah, it’s almost like it is dangerous to suggest that minority groups are dangerous, so journalists need to be careful with their wording when talking negatively of minorities. It’s almost like historically people used stories of evil minorities to murder minorities.