[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #75 WHEN THE MEDIA DOESN'T CHECK THE FACTS

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #75

November 22, 2021                                               

Facts #5  

 

WHEN THE MEDIA DOESN'T

CHECK THE FACTS

 

In this deep dive into facts, what they are, how to identify a true fact
from a false one, how to establish factual evidence, there has been playing
out on the media in the past couple weeks a real mis-use of "facts" and
generation of non-facts.  Some of the media, not all of it, has played
really loose and wild with facts, others have offered lies as "facts" with a
straight face.  In the last administration, the media "fact checked"
everything President Trump said.  Today they have given that up and do not
even attempt to fact check President Biden.

 

Here's a fact to start with.  On Friday, the jury in Kenosha Wisconsin
returned a "not guilty" verdict on all five counts against Kyle Rittenhouse.
After 26 hours of deliberating, they decided on the basis of the facts and
the evidence presented that Kyle had shot three people in self-defense.
That event occurred in August of 2020 when a young teenager came to Kenosha
where his dad lived the day after riots and burnings of buildings to give
medical aid and to protect a friends.  Once there, he was asked to help
protect a friend's car dealership from the violence and rioting.

 

The amazing thing about facts is that they are pretty easily established
when you have a video record.  And that's what the jury had.  So the case
for self-defense was pretty easy given that you could see Kyle running away
from the mob and being chased and then defending himself.  There was also
video of him falling to the ground, being beaten on the head with a
skateboard.

 

When Gaige Grosskreutz pointed a gun at his head, Kyle shot him in his hand.
This is man who also testified and said, yes, Kyle did not shot until he had
pointed the gun at his head.  He was supposed to have been the prosecution's
star witness, but that statement certainly establishes self-defense.  This
was a hard fact from a participant in the riots.

 

Then there are the facts about who Kyle shot.  When he was being chased by a
mob and he turned and shot his pursuers, who exactly was chasing him?  One
was Joseph Rosenbaum, an ex-con who had been sentenced to prison for 10
years, a convicted child rapist.  Another was Anthony Hoover, another
criminal who had been convicted of domestic violence.  He was the person who
beat Kyle on the head with a skateboard.  These facts were established in
the trial.  That doesn't sound like they were innocent victims let along
good people. 

 

But against all of those facts- facts established in the courtroom is the
fact that the mainstream media had been presenting lies and false propaganda
from the beginning.  Even in August 2020 Joe Biden jumped the gun and called
him a "white supremacist."  There was no evidence of that and none surfaced
in the year since that statement.  But the media picked it up calling him a
racist and terrorist.  But without any factual evidence, that's just
name-calling.  There are no facts that provide any evidence of that.

 

The bizarre and crazy thing is that the media called him a racist even
though no black people were involved in the drama at all.  It was a white
teenager against three other white men.  As a fact, all of the people
Rittenhouse shot were white.  None were black.  To frame it as a racial
event completely distorts the story.

 

Without any facts to support them, MSNBC ramped up the charged of "white
supremacists" on Friday after the verdict.  They thereby perpetuated the
fake news and ignored the justice system.  MSNBC had also been forbidden to
enter the court house on the last day due to misbehavior of one of their
reporters had run a red light when chasing the jury bus.

 

At least Biden, when asked about the trail, he had enough sense to say, "The
jury system works and we will have to stand by it."  Good for him.

 

Here's an example of the media playing really loose with facts.  On Friday
ABC news announced that the riots had started because the police had "killed
an unarmed black man," Jacob Blake.  But, of course, that denies the actual
facts of the case.  First, the police did not kill anyone- Jacob Blake is
still alive- to this day!  And he was not "unarmed," he had a knife and he
admitted that he did.  It seems that the media just cannot face the facts as
facts and let the evidence speak for itself. 

 

What is not factual is name-calling.  People tend to do that when they don't
have the facts on their side.  Yet sticking a label on someone does not make
it so.  Kyle was not a white supremacist, vigilante, racist, terrorist or
any of the other names that the media has tried to put on him.  What's
pathetic is that the media misrepresented these things for over a year which
essentially had been "media brainwashing" of the public.  In smearing and
vilifying him, they used speech to incite anger and rage.  If there ever was
"fake news" this was it.

 

I use this example about some of the media because it is so obvious and
shows the critical nature of being able to intelligently and critically deal
with what we call "facts."  It should be a big warning about the things that
the media presents as "the facts."  The time has come when all of us have to
do fact checking ourselves

 

 

 

www.neurosemantics.com/when-the-media-doesnt-check-the-facts/ 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

               1 970-523-7877 

 

 

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