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Media Narrative Chart
I created a chart to ensure that budding journalists understand how to properly frame a story involving any type of shooting, terror attack, or other violent crime. Remember that the job of the Objective Journalist™ is not to tell the audience what happened, but to expand the event into an indictment of Western culture.
Please feel free to add any additional style tips in the comments.
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Looks about right.
This is a good one, John. Did you tweet it yet?
Couple problems here. One is that there are no terror attacks: there are no terrorists, according to Obama and the NLMSM. There are only radical Islam (or Islamic radicals if the “journalist” is trying to stray from the politically correct), militants, and insurgents.
Contradictorily, your phrasing implies that you’ve fallen for the PC drool: terror attacks are not violent crimes; they’re acts of war.
Chart’s pretty good, though, and dismayingly accurate.
Eric Hines
White Hetero Male–Not White Hetero Male– Hate Crime
Attacker: Hippie
Victim: Reality
Narrative: Mondays
Thanks, this will take the place of ninety percent of my comments outside of Ricochet.
Attacker: Anyone in Detroit or Chicago
Victim: Anyone in Detroit or Chicago
Narrative: Crickets Chirping…
nitpick: Lefty not liberal. Liberty has nothing to do with it.
I think the Female Attacker, Fraternity Victim may need some work.
It’s a bad habit. “Hippie” is actually my preference because it underscores how unserious their thinking is.
I’ve been wondering why the media has so many stories about the Kardashians.
Couldn’t you fit work place violence into the muslim- non muslim category?
If an act of violence occurs in Chicago, what do you do? Turn it over to Sports?
Violence occurs in a sanctuary city by an illegal alien, is it violence? The local authorities do not recognize the legal (illegal) status of the attacker. Does the attacker even exist?
Yes, ma’am.
This has the possibility to take over from your “the best thing about Obama presidency ” tweet…..
Fantastic.
Your handy card is a nice, easy, and accurate substitute for actually watching the news.
Ivy League Grad / Any one / Lack of mental health care
Comprehensive.
Add a few text generation macros and we could automate the editorial page of the New York Times.
That would be quite a cost savings.
Occupation- justifies anything,apparently.
Quibble: With a white shooter and white victim(s), the narrative is gun control. With a non-white shooter (or mugger or rapist, etc.) and white victim(s), the narrative is poverty, lack of opportunity, inadequate school funding, and the all-purpose “hopelessness”. All of these stem from systemic racism, of course.
Also, you forgot a significant trigger for terrorist violence: climate change. Oh, and poverty. And lack of opportunity. And hopelessness.
Jon,
And they say Journalism can’t be reduced to a science. How thoughtful that you put it all on a quick reference laminated card. If the Journalist stops at Ben & Jerry’s and drools mint chip all over it he can just wash it off. If he drops it at the crime scene and it gets blood on it he can give it quick wash there too.
It’s the little things that count.
Regards,
Jim
hahaha! This is hilarious! I love it. “The Kardashians instead” hahaha!
What are you–anti-union? For shame.
Eric Hines
You hit the nail on the head, John.
Painfully brilliant.
I need a perma-link button so this is at the ready for Facebook threads.
Marxist ===> ANYONE = Tea Party
Unknown ===> ANYONE = Tea Party
Brilliant! That is an excellent chart.