CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – The mainstream media has a habit of making up journalistic phrases when they can’t make a story fit into their narrative.
When Project Veritas would release a new undercover video, the mainstream media would refer to it as “highly edited.” That’s a made-up term. Every news interview you see is highly edited. Mere seconds of what’s said makes it into the news report. The rest is scrapped.
When Black Lives Matter demonstrations ransacked more than 40 cities in the summer of 2020 we were told that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful”. The media had never, ever described violent civil unrest that way before. “Mostly peaceful” was code that acknowledged the righteousness of the cause while downplaying that looting and destruction.
So if BLM rallies are ‘mostly peaceful’, why can’t the media use the same language to describe January 6th at the Capitol?
The unedited tapes that Tucker Carlson showed are, indeed, mostly peaceful. When we see the raw footage, we see people mostly walking around the capitol building. They entered through open doors. Some are talking or interacting with police. It would be completely accurate to call them ‘mostly peaceful.’
Yet what the January 6th Select Committee showed us was highly edited clips from that larger trove of footage. James Goldstone, a former TV executive, was part of the committee staff to stitch together the video and to help write a narrative of what happened that day. It is the committee’s version of events that is a pre-packaged distortion. It is the Tucker Carlson tapes that are authentic.
So why can’t the media tell us the difference between the two?
Chris Conley
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