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- Privileged VCU Student Body President and petit Communist Taylor Maloney tweets regularly about killing cops, VA NPR thus complains that ‘right wing media’ is ‘doxxing’ poor Maloney
- Utter hypocrisy of Communists complaining about not being protected enough by police and authorities while advocating their murder is completely lost on the humorless reporter
- Article lacks significant context that would show how irrational Maloney’s complaints are, such as the actual number of people killed by police each year
OUR RATING: Journalistic Malpractice. Even Salon.com is ashamed.
Normally, when a college student says something stupid and radical, it shouldn’t be news. In the new journalism paradigm, though, even offensive things said by high schoolers seems to be news. [1] Even when some of these things are predictably found to be later false, a kind of media false flag initiated by the passions of youth, there are still media stories and consequences for the participants. [2] Few media wags complained when conservative teachers were fired for innocuous tweets, such as the Michigan high school teacher fired when he said “Trump is our President.” [3]
The modern media landscape has made everything newsworthy in its thirst for content and controversy, and those in positions of authority know that even their tweets come with consequences. Those consequences may not be right or just, but they do exist. No one in the current year expects to tweet radicalism without consequence.
So when a privileged student body President complains that his Communist and kill-the-police tweets are causing people to ‘harass’ him, complaining that it is causing him to be ‘doxxed’ because he put his own name on the conversation, a reporter shouldn’t just parrot back these reactionary statements, he should present readers with context and critical analysis to present the story fairly.
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