Ferguson & St. Louis, MO -- Deaths and Protests

[HairOfTheDog]

You can't put a muzzle on them but the reporting is completely lopsided and designed to incite interest and even participation. I don't think it's coincidental that when a story stops getting replayed over and over and over again, the movements behind it tend to settle down as well.

I think a person would have to be mentally challenged to think that the media didn't sensationalize.

But, is the media to blame for what people think, feel and do because the mass of the American people are mindless sheeple? I don't think so.

If protestors in Ferguson were attacking each other or cops/guardsmen, continuing to burn buildings, continuing to vandalize...the media would still be right there, front and center, "Live from the Riot Zone!!". But, the media isn't much there anymore because the big sensational story isn't much there anymore.

Likewise, if all mainstream media sources came out and said "there is nothing to indicate that any of the killings of unarmed black teens by white officers had any racial implications whatsoever" and then went on to make a compelling case in support of that statement and ran it over and over, it would not make the perception of racism go away, IMO. The media didn't create racism or the perception thereof, nor the impassioned reactions to it, and it can't eradicate them either. The media is not to blame. But, yeah, they can sure sensationalize, package, and sell an angle to those in the market. I agree there.