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‘I'm… At A Loss For Words': The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic's Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting' Tale
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-17 04:17|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 These SJWs have rich fantasy lives. So rich they seem to spend their entire life within it, and to base their activism upon it.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-07-17 06:49||   2020-07-17 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 There’s a major problem with Purnell’s story, however.

Should've been obvious after the first sentence that this story is 1,000% bullshit.
Posted by Raj 2020-07-17 08:53||   2020-07-17 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The media falls for this narrative yarn spinning again and again. And again. And again...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-17 09:07||   2020-07-17 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Fails? Or willing accomplices?
Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-17 09:36||   2020-07-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 History, like the Constitution, is a living thing to these people.
Posted by Herb Omomosing8705 2020-07-17 09:53||   2020-07-17 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 One ingredient for a successful con is that the marks *want* to believe.

And apparently, one requirement to be a 'journalist' today is a complete lack of curiosity.
Posted by SteveS 2020-07-17 09:56||   2020-07-17 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's a five-year chart of the NYT's stock price. It was on the verge of being a single-digit midget in 2016 and now sells for $44. That's not because its investigative curiosity improved. It's because management developed a single-minded focus on providing content that it's core audience wanted to read, i.e., Orange Man Bad. Screw accuracy.
Posted by Matt 2020-07-17 10:52||   2020-07-17 10:52|| Front Page Top

#8  Carlos Slim, Mexican owner of Bimbo Bakery (not a joke name) figures in the decision to sell the propaganda to the intellectual elites and get even richer. The Acela corridor laps it up because it feeds their smug worldview of how things ought to be.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-07-17 12:46||   2020-07-17 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 As the story notes, anyone who has spent any time in St. Louis at all couldn't reconcile the basic geography of what she describes. You would think she would be a bit more careful or less obvious with the fabrications. But if the theme is PC, I guess you can dispense with the most basic of ordinary and easily checkable facts.

See William James' excellent book "The Will to Believe."
Posted by Tom 2020-07-17 13:09||   2020-07-17 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Just how naive and credulous is The Atlantic? Now we know.
Posted by Tom 2020-07-17 13:11||   2020-07-17 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I just wonder how Jimmy is doing.
Posted by charger 2020-07-17 13:17||   2020-07-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#12 The media falls for this narrative yarn spinning again and again. And again. And again...

Naturally. It is what they want to hear.
Posted by Gliling Munster1197 2020-07-17 17:15||   2020-07-17 17:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Did the media 'fall' for her story... or were they accomplishes in her fabrication and lies?
The world may never know.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-07-17 19:40||   2020-07-17 19:40|| Front Page Top

#14 A poster. Riposte, one that lingers
To poke at "progressive" left-wingers:
That V's gotta go.
In its place, scrawled just so, is--
A peace sign? No. Fist, or crossed fingers.
Posted by Greamble Ebbavique4457 2020-07-17 22:22||   2020-07-17 22:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Huh, wrong page. How the hell'd I do that? Maybe this'll show up over yonder...

Purnell has a story to tell!
Oh, lordy, break out the Purelle.
A helluva mess...
"Well, let's eat!" yell the press,
All unmasked and unable to smell.
Posted by Clem Ghibelline8069 2020-07-17 22:30||   2020-07-17 22:30|| Front Page Top

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