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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.
Published in Culture, Humor
Thanks very much Jon. It’s brilliant, and sadly too true.
This chart’s radness cannot be contained by the Internet.
Muslim => non-muslim
Better: “nothing to do with Islam”
or
“Be afraid of inevitable islamophobic backlash against innocent muslims”
or both.
Nitpick: Not entirely true — you often can read what happened if you read the last paragraph or two. It’s not that they can’t tell the truth it just that their job is to affix blame first, lock down the narrative in everyone’s mind and then — if there is time and room on the page — put in the actual facts that a professional media would start with.
I appreciate the credit tag at the bottom, so I can share this without guilt.
Attacker: US Military
Victim: Nobel Peace Prize Winning NGO Hospital
Narrative (if a Republican is President Version): calls for congressional hearings, non-stop programs on NPR, front page coverage in major newspapers for weeks, nightly stories and features in national newscasts, outrage in liberal circles, demands for impeachment.
Narrative (if a Democrat is President Version): Did you hear what Ben Carson said?
Larry,
Bingo! They put those last couple of paragraphs in just in case somebody accuses them of the fantastic bias that they are obviously guilty of. Thoughtful little bast@#ds aren’t they.
Regards,
Jim
This is great.
I particularly love that this graphic has been very widely shared on the interweb thingy. Quite possibly the single best Ricochet advertisement yet. Well done!
Tweeting this and putting it on the internet is great,but let’s get a little entrepreneurial here. Put this out on posters,coffee mugs,tee shirts, and sweat shirts and you will make millions.
Great job, Jon. I just saw this twice on my FB feed, and I don’t think either person is one of the Ricochetois. I told them to come on down.
A glaring absence from this list:
Police Officer / White