New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones, went public this week with a call for journalists not to cover shoplifting crimes, even criticizing MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for his discussion of a viral video of a man who recently stole steaks from a New York City Trader Joe’s. Hannah-Jones is a leading voice for advocacy journalism and her public criticism of the coverage of the rise in shoplifting vividly shows what such journalism means for the profession.
The MSNBC segment addressed a video of a man who casually walked out of the store with a stack of steaks:
After that video, the store was hit again by a man who shoplifted and insisted in an interview that it was entirely appropriate to do so.
Hannah-Jones objected to MSNBC covering the story because it could support efforts to increase policing and prosecution: “This drumbeat for continued mass incarceration is really horrific to watch. A person stealing steak is not national news, and there have always been thefts from stores. This is how you legitimize the carceral state.”
It was advocacy journalism in full display.
We have been discussing the rise of advocacy journalism and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. Writers, editors, commentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and his key advisers. This movement includes academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism in favor of open advocacy.
Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll has denounced how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation. In an interview with The Stanford Daily, Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, insisted that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” He rejected the notion that the journalism is based on objectivity and said that he views “journalists as activists because journalism at its best — and indeed history at its best — is all about morality.” Thus, “Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.”
Here Hannah-Jones is demonstrating how such advocacy journalism works. There is no question that there is a sharp rise in shoplifting across America, a trend that has resulted in the closing of stores in some cities. As I have previously written, this is due to a lack of deterrence in major cities where prosecution is rare for such crimes and many stores do not even bother calling the police. Even in liberal states like California, politicians have been compelled to establish task forces to combat retail theft. Various Democratic politicians have decried the rising crime trend.
That would seem news. It impacts average citizens with the closure of stores and increase prices due theft. However, by covering the story, Hannah-Jones objects that reporters are working against social justice. She has previously declared that “all journalism is activism.” In this case, she would have media bury such stories because that is not the narrative that she wants viewers to hear.
While Hannah-Jones’ view of journalism is opposed by many viewers, it is in vogue in journalism schools. Indeed, UNC Journalism and Media Dean Susan King fought to give a chair to Hannah-Jones and, in another example of advocacy journalism, even pressured a journalist to frame coverage to help that cause.
The impact of such advocacy journalism is evident in every poll where the faith in the media has plummeted. Indeed, the “Let’s Go Brandon” movement is as much a criticism of the media as it is President Biden. The United States ranked dead last in media trust among 49 countries with just 29% saying that they trusted the media.
Why in the world would anyone in their right mind listen to the likes of Nicole Hannah-Jones. From the outset, she suffers an identity crisis so deep and debilitating, she needs two names to find her bearings, such as they are. Her “skill set” is factitious, having been shabbily cobbled together in a communist reputation fabricating facility and repeatedly propagated and imposed by communist propaganda and indoctrination publications and broadcasts, the purveyors of which are determined to destroy America and “fundamentally transform the United States of America” into a communist third world —-hole.
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“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin
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Apologist bleeding heart milquetoasts couldn’t.
Bereft of generational welfare, quotas, affirmative action, public housing, forced busing, food stamps, social services, medicaid, minimum wage, unfair “Fair Housing” laws, discriminatory “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc., supplicating Nicole Hannah-Jones would be nothing, a hideous, piteous beggar, “…like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”
Would that Lincoln had acted properly and appropriately on his axiomatic truth, and executed the law of the nation – its full letter and spirit – as was his sworn duty, rather than seizing power and imposing mayhem.
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“If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854
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Naturalization Act of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.”
Trump and the clogged toilet. A blog on the internet said that a White House employee said that Trump wiped his rear with some torn up papers with Hillary s name on them.
Breaking news: Canadian bears are looking for the leader of that truck convoy, Rubber Duck. Watch out for Sheriff Dirty Lyle. 10-4 over & out.
That work me up.
Macron’s police in Paris are using force and tear gas on peaceful freedom demonstrators.
this is war….freedom vs tyranny.
Yawn.
Hannah-Jones Criticizes MSNBC for Covering Shoplifting Storie
– Professor Turley
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Americans criticize MSNBC and the MSM for COVERING-UP the “False-Flag Communist Deep Deep State January 6 Insurrection.”
NEW FOOTAGE Shows Trained, Plainclothes Operatives Coordinating Break-In Through Capitol Window on January 6 (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/new-footage-shows-trained-plainclothes-operatives-coordinating-break-capitol-window-video/
The vain and futile search for a diplomatic solution in Ukraine is a textbook example of the saying “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.” History shows that the only real, decisive solutions are military solutions. Sad but true. Dictators NEVER get talked out of doing whatever they feel like doing: they can only be bombed out.
“Dictators NEVER get talked out of doing whatever they feel like doing: they can only be bombed out.”
What is it with you warmongers? Are you saying that if there is a dictator somewhere, the United States must bomb the people suffering under the dictatorship?
Or should we only bomb the dictator (plus unavoidable collateral damage like the four million Iraqis on whose behalf we murdered Saddam Hussein)?
And which dictators? Putin? President Xi? Kim Jong-un? All of them at once? Or just the ones the New York Times dislikes?
And what qualifies as a dictatorship? Any country in which the government governs without the consent of the governed? By that definition, half of America supports bombing ourselves.
Yes, if a tree I falls in the woods, It makes a noise. I know because I was there to hear it. It scared the Dickens out of me.
Our media today is part of the corruption and complicit in spreading propaganda and flat-out lies.
Fact-checking is not about checking facts.
Inform yourself. Listen to this before YouTube removes it as, you guessed it: “misinformation.”
Although YouTube may ultimately censor David Martin’s video by removing it under the false charge of “misinformation, there are alternative sources of communications, such as Rumble, that don’t block truthful, well documented videos under such phony pretexts: https://rumble.com/vupfdg-dr-david-martin-fact-checking-update-on-canadian-conflict-of-interest.html
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The Trudeau Foundation owns a 40% stake in Acuitas, through both direct ownership of shares and indirect ownership through shell companies.
Perhaps there will always be complaints about what is and what is not newsworthy. For example, here Jones says shoplifting is not. Many times JT says stories about the Biden children are newsworthy and complains about the lack of coverage. In turn, many commenters complain about the columns JT writes about to the exclusion of other topics.
Everything that politicians do is a distraction? What an absurdity. It implies that they exist just to distract. That simply is not true.
If a cargo cult on a remote island were wearing products made in China, but they didn’t know about China’s human rights abuses, it would be unfair to criticize them. They probably just like the functionality of the clothing.
Jonathan” This post, like many others, has two purposes. First, to emphasize petty crimes by minorities ( the man in the video appears to be Latino). It’s a racist troll. Second, to divert attention from the real more serious threats of “censorship” going on in primarily southern states by GOP politicians–like Ted Cruz. Yesterday Cruz complained that “left-wing educators are putting explicit pornography in front of kids”. He didn’t say what “pornography” he had in mind but the Texas Senator is leading the charge to ban certain books in public schools–mainly because he is running for re-election this year and wants to appeal to his far right-wing voting base. In Texas Gov. Abbott is calling for criminal chargers against anyone who provides “pornography” to students. Many state school districts have banned books dealing with racism and sexual identity. In Tennessee a county school board even removed the Pulitzer winning novel “Maus”, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the school curriculum. Harks back to the infamous Scopes trial! Must be in the genes of some southern White politicians. Under Cruz’s concept of “pornography” perhaps the Bible should also be banned from schools. In the old testament we have the Song of Solomon: 8:10: “Dear brothers, I’m a walled in virgin still, but my breasts are full–and when my lover sees me, he knows he’ll soon be satisfied”. Other even more explicit passages appear in the Bible.
Book banning has a long and sad history. At one time many books like “the Great Gatsby”, “Catcher in the Rye”, “Grapes of Wrath”, “the Color Purple”, and, of course, Joyce’s “Ulyses” were all banned from public schools. But there is growing opposition to book banning–led by groups of students. “Voters of Tomorrow” is buying hundreds of copies of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”, about slavery, and “Maus” and distributing them to students in Texas and Virginia. Makes my heart swell with pride for young people. As for me I am buying copies of “Maus” (currently backordered due to high demand) for my three young granddaughters. As they say, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What Cruz and the right-wing of the GOP are doing is “censorship” by any definition. Something you don’t mention. You would rather us focus on alleged “censorship” by journalism schools, Pres. Biden and Prof. Hannah Jones. This just another example of your hypocrisy when dealing with “censorship”.
( the man in the video appears to be Latino).
Man? how bigoted are going to get? definatey identifies as female.
Latino? them/they are WHITE Latino like George Zimmerman. Not a minority at all. Actually an oppressor
Ruins your whole woke rant.
“This drumbeat for continued mass incarceration is really horrific to watch. A person stealing steak is not national news, and there have always been thefts from stores. This is how you legitimize the carceral state.”
This is not merely advocacy journalism. This is the Leftist propaganda machine deployed by the Democratic party in support of their advocacy-style of governance. It’s true, a person stealing steaks is not national news. Yes, there have always been thefts from stores. Yes, if we locked up every individual that stole from a store, it would massive. But that’s where progressives stop in their governance process. While we do need compassion in how we govern, it’s not compassionate to enable lawlessness.
Got it ! If nobody talks about it, it’s really NOT happening ? What is WRONG with these people ?!
There’s only one marshal who can take care of tin pans, carpet baggers, sod busters and preachers filling shoplifters full of sass.
If you don’t cover it, it didn’t occur, right?
Let’s just decriminalize shoplifting as has been done for other crimes such as farebeating. That way the leftist elites can say crime is decreasing.
antonio
If a tree falls in the woods, does it make any noise?
That’s not the saying. It’s
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Nice point here being made by the GOP naming their anti-crackpipe funding bill the Hunter Act…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-introduce-hunter-act-to-ban-federal-government-from-buying-crack-pipes?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=non_member
I just finished the book, “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” by Peter Schweizer. Well researched and full of primary sources (no anonymous sources). The corruption goes deep and across both isles. This is not just government but also Big Tech, American Journalism, and Universities.
The glitter rich and über elite on both sides of the political spectrum have sold their souls for personal gain at the expense of our country and the citizens of this country.
Many of these elites praise the efficiency of doing business in a dictatorship where they crush the messy business citizen’ dissent and protest. Former senators, congressmen, military, diplomatic corps, university leadership, tech CEOs, former WH advisors, staff, are given sweet consultancies if they help grow our greatest adversary.
The corporate press, a place where people once could turn for a reliable account of facts has turned a dark corner. I remember when CNN was a serious and well respected news organization with reporters on the ground around the globe, embedded reporters, investigative reporters. They produced their own reliable sources that rivaled those of our government agencies (perhaps better). The corporate MBAs figured out along the way that they could hire a group of people to sit around a table and talk for an hour instead of report. “‘Hey, it’s cheaper.”
This new mode of “news” reminds me of one of the “All You Can Eat” restaurants. The quality of the food is marginal at best but patrons can belly up to the bar and gluttonize themselves and “Hey! Free ice cream!”
In the days of old, we got 30 minutes of quality news and at the end of the broadcast a couple minutes of editorial commentary. Then there was 30 minutes of local news. These organizations, newspapers and the few magazines had editorial staff that oversaw the veracity and quality of the news story.
When I hear a wealthy elite carry on about a topic now, I ask the question, “What is your angle? How are you and your family personally benefiting from the narrative you are promoting. What goods do they have on you that you have changed your tune?”
The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” Albert Camus
“The whole world’s capitalists and their governments, as they pant to win the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the above mentioned reality and will thus transform themselves into men who are deaf, dumb and blind. The will give us credits…they will toil to prepare their own suicide.”
Vladamir Lenin
COMRADE GENERAL SECRETARY ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
– Abraham Lincoln, from his first speech as an Illinois state legislator, 1837
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“Everyone now is more or less a Socialist.”
– Charles Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, and Lincoln’s assistant secretary of war, 1848
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“The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”
– Karl Marx and the First International Workingmen’s Association to Lincoln, 1864
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Letter, January 28, 1865
To: Abraham Lincoln
“We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
“From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver?”
“[Yours Truly],”
Karl Marx – Friedrich Engels
I advocate giving the Russians covid when they cross into Ukraine. Spray bottles full of Covid bacteria can go off when they cross the border. Aimed at their faces.