• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      Not just a “Republicans” problem. NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Houston Mayor John Whitmire are also in on the “Ahh! Crime Wave!” racket.

      Sinclair Media and Clear Channel Communications have made a deluge of “minorities doing crimes” stories central to their homogenization of local media coverage. Cable news channels (FOX most notably, but CNN and MSNBC aren’t afraid to pile on) love the Missing White Girl saga. My hometown paper Houston Chronicle and local news channels love to talk about sex workers in the most lurid style and to cover human trafficking as an endless spectacle.

      Its everywhere. It’s suffocating.