OPINION - EDITORIAL
The Associated Press advises suppressing the truth about riots
By Post Editorial Board
October 6, 2020 | 7:51pm
Burning debris in Portland, Oregon, following a Black Lives Matter protest last May.
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America’s most influential media stylebook is discouraging the nation’s newspapers from reporting on mass urban violence, on the grounds that writing about what’s happening is “stigmatizing.”
That’s right: The Associated Press Stylebook, whose standards are followed by countless outlets, last week announced new guidelines around reporting on riots.
After a “D’oh” definition of “riot,” the guidance preached: “Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.”
And never mind that increasing evidence suggests most violence can be pinned not on real Black Lives Matter protesters (radical though their agenda may be), but on mostly white Antifa provocateurs.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/10/06/the-associated-press-advises-suppressing-the-truth-about-riots/
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In downtown Louisville, Ky., Fadi Faouri has slept in his store for 122 straight nights, trying to protect it from rioters and looters. “Stuff is being damaged on a nightly basis, people are shooting at each other every night,” he told The Post. “Every night we have a new store that got looted. They break in, they take whatever and go. They walk away.”____________
The AP should know better: The news biz is about recounting the world as it is, not as how journalists want it to be.
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