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The US media is failing the public.
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The Travelers
@drlydialong.bsky.social
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Because falling crime rates aren't news. Plenty of research on this topic. I've taught a class entitled "crime and the media" addressing this issue for years. Your average person is not looking at the data.
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The Mothman
@hailmothman.bsky.social
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You got a link to the article this is from?
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Kevin R.
@kevinspvtbox.bsky.social
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Working as intended.
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Kevin R.
@kevinspvtbox.bsky.social
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That’s a matter of “objective”. The media isn’t objective in the neutrality sense of reporting facts. Second, most of the free news outlets are “right wing” as opposed to CNN which requires a paid subscription. So the “right” with a farther reach to influence public opinion (by omission) is intended
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Dawn is Turning the Frogs Gay 250/3300
@daybreakstations.bsky.social
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Crime is down but awareness of crime is at an all time high
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Todd
@ilookatclouds.bsky.social
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There's no real way to counter the misconception either. I remember one conversation (years ago) with a FB friend. She said the world was more dangerous. I showed her statistics that showed the opposite. Her retort: "well you're entitled to your opinion". 🙄
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Bombniks 🏳️⚧️
@bombniks.bsky.social
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Creating a false narrative is easy and the media knows that. Not just that but "decreasing crime" is often a promise that politicians give and this just helps feed into it.
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David Moss
@davidwill.bsky.social
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The media has been pushing this since the crack epidemic in the 1980s and 90s because scaring old ladies is good for views and social control.
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K`Tetch
@ktetch.bsky.social
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it has been a fairly consistant thing that crime is consistently falling, but the perception of crime increases, because 'if it bleeds it leads', and an incessant 24 hour news cycle now that must be filled. Plus the bootlickers of the police state need to worship their masters.
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Pé 🍸
@forevernever.bsky.social
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There's a near-100% chance that a supermajority of Americans think crime rates are higher today than they were forty years ago.
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Anna Gjika
@gjikaphd.bsky.social
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I like a lot of what's on this thread, but I also want to remind people that we don't have to be uncritical consumers of news. Or social media. Don't get me started on the Citizen app, etc. We have to interrogate if we're buying into certain narrative because they confirm our biases.
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kayfabe schadenfreude
@goblinbox.com
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It's an essential part of the cops-need-to-kill-people narrative. "Cops are at war with the criminal citizenry."
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PapaJ
@michiganpapa.bsky.social
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Fact
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Carolyn
@carolynlu.bsky.social
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No one is doing crime cause they’re too busy looking at their phones
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Thar🏳️⚧️
@tharsull.bsky.social
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tbh, if there were a monetary penalty for propagating inaccurate news, basically a liar's fine, this would all be very different if, for example, they were charged $100,000 per minute of lies they air, they may change their tune sooner rather than later
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Alexander The Meh
@alexanderthemeh.bsky.social
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I'd argue its doing exactly as it is constituted to do- sell fascism in order to protect the current capitalist system from coming apart under the weight of its own incoherencies
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Gabriel Bauman
@gabrielbauman.com
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The US media is doing great on the “keep the public begging to be profitably subjugated” metric though.
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Dan hates the heat dome
@danhicks.bsky.social
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Source please? Want to share this with my conservative family member
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PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄
@powerfromspace1.bsky.social
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Of course crippled by design and complicit #MSM 😔 the fourth estate 🙄
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What TF are we doing??
@symbioticmind.bsky.social
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*been failing the public
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jędrek
@jedrek.bsky.social
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I moved to the US 40 years ago and there has never been a time when crime wasn't going up.
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MarwanEichelsMD
@monewsdaily.bsky.social
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"Reported crime" is a key here...
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SkyIce
@skyice.bsky.social
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I think the fact that crime spiked so dramatically has something to do with it to. There is a lag between effect and acknowledgement. Politicans are taking advantage but crime isn't like grocery pricees. It takes a long time for people to register that they are experiencing less crime.
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illumi
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David J. DeVore
@devoretext.bsky.social
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Wait. It's not election time yet.
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Doglett
@jamed.bsky.social
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We have a similar thing with London in this country. The misinformation is nuts.
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John Downey
@dow280ten.bsky.social
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so the market is up, and crime is down, under Biden Harris, in every category except mass shooting the same whores who won't report facts that might cast Joe in favorable light also perceive slaughter is good for their business they are the problem
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Mike Behr
@mabehr.bsky.social
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Anyone who appreciates this article can follow @jeffasher.bsky.social right here on Bsky. He was also the guy (one of, at least) who called BS on Target’s “we’re closing stores because of crime.”
Good follow.
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Karma's Dad
@karmasdad.bsky.social
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It is a feature, not a failure. The owners and publishers prefer tax cuts to democracy. An ill-informed public serves their purposes.
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Goldstein the Hon
@goldstein.bsky.social
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NBC News aired a story tonight about retail robbery gangs.
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Tully Quinn
@tullyquinn.bsky.social
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Do you have the article link please?
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@ericbrown13.bsky.social
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And it is pretty easy to find out facts like this, so it's pretty clear that a narrative is being pushed (probably for many different reasons).
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Simple Country Mathematician
@stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social
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Republicans think the crime rate is 100% and rising.
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@theoutsider52.bsky.social
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A lot of people I know that complain about crime, don't even have crime in their area, go figure...
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HudsonRiverCroc
@hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social
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Yeah, but the US media caters to vested interests different than the general public
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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I have also witnessed one (1) murder. Which came up last because it *was* a rather traumatic experience and my brain sometimes loses it in the corners. Not recommended. But per the way the media reports it...I should have seen a dozen!
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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I've also witnessed a handful of crimes...a domestic that spilled out onto the street (couldn't call the cops because they were Black), a fight between two guys over who knows what, some poor kid's phone got stolen. But the fact that I can remember and describe them all...
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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I'm no spring chicken and have been a victim of crime a grand total of four times. Three of the four were people getting hold of my credit card number (including, on one occasion, to bet on greyhounds in China). The fourth was the time I was pickpocketed on a busy train. I live in a big city.
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Osana
@osana.bsky.social
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Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that's what their owners want now. The news media doesn't serve the general public but the owners and the "ruling class."
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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We let cops tell us how much crime there is and they have self interest in making people afraid.
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Campfire Headcase
@vidoqo.bsky.social
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jace cavacini
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Interesting choice of words, "failing". Commercial media has ONE motivation: Selling as many advertising slots as possible, as quickly as possible, at as high a price as possible, to as many advertisers as possible, in order to pursue perpetual growth on Wall Street. It's antisocial pathology.
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Jeff Hobbs
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So the thing that has to be considered here is, yes, media is failing BUT ALSO it is in the best interests of *local police* to make sure the public feels their budgets (typically the largest of a city/town) are warranted. So they send endless PR to local news, which needs content. Rinse wash repeat
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Zeroisanumber
@zeroisanumber.bsky.social
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This is cable news and FB brain chewing up the 'burbs.
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Bailey
@bsten.bsky.social
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jesus that’s fucking grim. the scare-clicks are real, i guess
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Coyote
@goldencoyote.bsky.social
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Failing by design.
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Flavour j
@favourjohn.bsky.social
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What's up nigga
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yaboi kusama
@lexaproletarian.bsky.social
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almost like the ruling class who owns it wants to push a certain narrative that pins members of the working class against one another
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Bob M
@rsmjr.bsky.social
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Gingrich in 2016 with his "yes crime is down but it FEELS like it's up" bullshit knew exactly what he was doing
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Lyse-Beast
@lyse.bsky.social
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24/7 news channels killed journalism
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friendly neighbourhood queer
@rumireads.bsky.social
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obligatory @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode plug
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SwampLizard
@swamplizard.bsky.social
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Failing, sabotaging
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Bible Blackbelt
@estrusflask.bsky.social
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Failing implies a lack of intentionality. The media is duping the public. That said, I think it would be rad if the retail theft stuff actually was on the rise, and I'm disappointed it isn't.
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Jonathan Gitlin
@drgitlin.bsky.social
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It always has
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bbqcornnuts
@bbqcornnuts.bsky.social
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This is 100% driving my local NextDoor
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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)
@shotdayparty.bsky.social
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But how much of it is actual journalism and how much of it is YouTube videos of ladies doing their makeup while talking to the camera about serial killers?
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Crypt໐-Zఠఠl໐gᴉcal Dis⅍ter 𓆑🏴
@eatyrselffitter.bsky.social
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failing the public or doing their job, which is terrifying the public
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∞ Monkeys
@somanymonkeys.bsky.social
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Gun homicides spiked when Trump came on the scene because his rhetoric fuels violence everywhere.
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Joel 🍦
@polyparadigm.bsky.social
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But they seem to be doing alright by advertisers.
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PolRepFemboy
@polrepfemboy.bsky.social
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Ohh boy, plummetting murder rates, I wonder who there gonna let kill a bunch of people next...
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Bipolar Viscountess
@sharilyn.bsky.social
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a HUGE factor is that formal US media is not actually driving stories the way it used to. A lot of crime stories are bubbling up from social media, so people are seeing it reshared in their feeds and amplified by algorithms and assume that crime is everywhere and growing.
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Azhrie Drake
@azhrie139.bsky.social
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Why would fascist collaborators serve the public?
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
@threnody.bsky.social
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like, okay, social media plays a role. perhaps it would then be beneficial to have a so-called adult in the room like an *actual* media. but they’re too busy doing reputation management stories like “restaurant destroys police cruiser in officer-involved driving event” to cover crime honestly.
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Tiff
@brainrockets.bsky.social
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I mean they keep making new things 'crimes' like 'being unhoused where people can see you' or 'exercising your constitutional rights'... so
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