CNN “Reporter:” The People In the Breakaway Nation of Razistan Sure Are Peaceful. Well, I Mean, Apart From These Armed Brigands Attempting to Intimidate Me Into Leaving.

This moron would look at a Vulture and say Oh Look a Dove

A rare retraction by FOX News. (Which is more a confession.):

“A FoxNews.com home page photo collage which originally accompanied this story included multiple scenes from Seattle’s ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ and of wreckage following recent riots. The collage did not clearly delineate between these images, and has since been replaced. In addition, a recent slide show depicting scenes from Seattle mistakenly included a picture from St. Paul, Minnesota. Fox News regrets these errors.”

What they regret is that they were caught falsely depicting what is actually happening, and publicly called out on it.

Washington Post:

The use of the deceptive material marked a new chapter in an ongoing debate over synthetic media, which includes both sophisticated, computer-generated “deepfakes,” as well as more rudimentary mash-ups that still may mislead the public.

“These are shallow fakes, really basic manipulation,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. “What I fear is that many people seeing them, especially people already primed to believe the worst about the protests, will take that to be reality and think there are heavily armed, antifa super-soldiers patrolling the streets.”

Yeah. That’s the entire point. That’s what they do, and why they do it. That’s the difference between genuine journalism and propaganda.

Media lies have real world consequences:

The episode unfolded as Trump and his political allies escalated their attacks on antifa, a loose collection of anti-fascist protesters who have played no organized role in the unrest, according to a review of charges filed so far in connection with the protests, which have at times tipped into turmoil. False online warnings about antifa’s planned invasion of cities large and small — incubated on fake Twitter accounts and in private Facebook groups — have brought armed residents to the streets and forced local law enforcement to mobilize in response.

Armed residents lined Idaho streets amid ‘antifa’ protest fears. The leftist incursion was an online myth.

In San Antonio, a 43-year-old man was recently arrested on charges of terrorist threats and public fear for promising on Twitter to “personally kill” any “antifa soldiers” preparing to join a local protest. Antifa never mobilized.

Seattle has become a particular fixation for the president, who said he would crack down on the city following a concerted attempt this week by some of the Internet’s most prominent right-wing personalities to blame antifa for the upheaval there.

Their claims were contradicted by local law enforcement. “We have no evidence that antifa are in any way involved in the ongoing protests,” said Patrick Michaud, a Seattle police spokesman.

Hospitals and staff stressed to the breaking point by COVID-19 was entirely real, and may soon be repeated elsewhere.

Part of Seattle taken over by insurgents and descending into a criminal chaos of rape, murder, and extortion is a flat-out LIE, told to bolster the delusional fantasy of the man in the White House.

FOX News is complicit in Trump’s destruction of American unity.

@Greg:

FOX News is complicit in Trump’s destruction of American unity.

You say “unity”….

…but I kinda think you mean the other thing.

Hell yes normal people will resist CNN et al’s complicit collusion in the destruction of American government.

One network who leans right in a sea of those who lean left, and you say they are the problem?

No.

Part of Seattle taken over by insurgents and descending into a criminal chaos of rape, murder, and extortion is a flat-out LIE.

Yes yes. You sound just like your complicit media. The truth is whatever you want it to be….blah blah blah…

CHAZ is very lucky it hasn’t been stomped out in a bloody way, unlawful seizure of American territory as it is.

But they did back down and name it CHOP, thusly folding to Trump…like they should.

The crimes in the CHAZ/CHOP have only just begun. Already video of white people holding down a white guy and choking him because of his religious views.

Border wall, warlord police, no freedom, racial toll fee (whites paying black cash because…you know, “racism”.”

But this is all part of you employer’s master plan, I know.