Month: August 2020

The Chicago looting spree that turned downtown into chaos early Monday included vandalism at a Ronald McDonald House housing the families of ailing children. Damage to the facility included several windows that were smashed. The front door also needed to be boarded up, according to WBBM-TV. Families that were inside the facility while looters were…

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Why is this not a story provoking media outrage? On Sunday, a five-year-old boy in North Carolina was brutally murdered execution style in front of his family by a neighbor. Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his home when a neighbor, Darius N. Sessoms, walked up and shot the child in the head. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Yet the national media has mostly been silent.
As The Blaze noted, “The gruesome murder was reportedly witnessed by Hinnant’s 7-year-old and 8-year-old sisters” and neighbors. Yet, the networks, CNN and MSNBC have boycotted the topic.   
Here is what you get when you search on CNN.com:  
 
Fox News, unlike the others, has at least acknowledged the brutal crime happened. The network covered it on Fox and Friends and again on Wednesday’s Special Report. Bret Baier explained: 
 
 
A North Carolina man is accused of walking up to a five-year-old boy playing outside and then shooting him in the head. A witness said five-year-old Cannon Hinnant was sitting on his bicycle. He died a nearby hospital. Twenty five-year-old Darius Sessoms is charged with first degree murder. He lives next door to the Hinnant family.
Are journalists able to cover multiple stories or not? Clearly, there are several big stories driving the news, from Kamala Harris to the pandemic. But CBS still found time on Wednesday night and Thursday morning to the suspension of a cop for having his K-9 dog attack someone (under questionable circumstances). 
Yet, nothing for this appalling act of violence. Nothing on the unimaginable grief suffered by the family of young Cannon. A GoFundMe page has been started for the family and has raised (so far) $134,000. 
As The Blaze noted, a Cannon Hinnant’s name has been trending on Twitter. Maybe the mainstream media will eventually notice. 
 

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson is in the hot seat again, this time for mispronouncing Senator and Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ first name on his show Tuesday. Democratic strategist and former Hillary Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein, Carlson’s guest at the time, immediately pounced, declaring Carlson’s mispronunciation disrespectful. “Her name is pronounced ‘comma’ – like…

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Looters targeted a Ronald McDonald House—a charity that provides free housing to families with sick children—in downtown Chicago Monday morning.

Thousands drove into Chicago early Monday to loot high-end retailers, department stores, and other businesses around the city’s Magnificent Mile. Residents and staff in the nearby Ronald McDonald House were forced into lockdown as looters targeted the building, breaking the charity’s doors and windows.

The Chicago charity currently houses 30 families whose children receive treatment at a nearby children’s hospital. Looters did not enter the building and nobody inside was injured. Staffer Lisa Mitchell said the safety concerns caused by riots create extra stress for already strained families.

"They’re already in a really really difficult spot," Mitchell said. "Having this kind of additional stress and worrying about being able to get to and from the hospital, even though we’re five blocks away because of safety concerns, is just doubling the strain."

The Chicago Police Department deployed hundreds of officers after discovering a widely circulated online video encouraging Chicago residents to ransack downtown businesses. More than 100 people were arrested in connection to the looting spree. Two people were shot and 13 police officers were injured.

Chicago’s Second Ward alderman Brian Hopkins (D.) told Chicago ABC 7 news that law enforcement’s response to the violence was "ineffective" and "passive."

"It’s a recipe for ineffective law enforcement, and that’s what we saw with this wide-scale looting where the police officers were largely in a passive posture, letting it happen because they didn’t know how to stop it," Hopkins told ABC 7 Chicago on Tuesday. "And in many cases if they did try to intervene, it was a threat to their own life and safety."

As a result of the looting, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot—who, until the recent looting spree, voiced support for the anti-police protests—said she would restrict access to downtown at night. Anti-police protests, many of which have turned into violent riots and looting, began earlier this summer following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

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In an exclusive interview with NewsBusters on Wednesday, Tara Reade, the woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, spoke out about the selection of Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate. Harris has previously said that Reade should be “heard” and that she believes other Biden accusers. 
Reade told me: “Journalists should be asking her pointedly why there was a smear campaign on me and why Kamala was so aggressive and assertive with [then-Supreme Court nominee Brett] Kavanaugh and here she knows there is a credible sexual assault accusation against Senator Biden.” 
As a frame of reference, Harris probed Kavanaugh during the 2018 hearings, at one point wondering: “Do you agree that it is possible for men to both be friends with some women and treat other women badly?” 
Reade, a former Senate aide to Biden, wondered if Harris would “ignore it out of a will for power” or “will she hold Biden accountable? Will she be silent?” She cautioned, “To approach sexual violence as a partisan issue is not only dismissive to the survivors and dangerous to the victims. It is the reason why survivors are afraid to come forward.” Still, Reade concluded, “The Democratic Party has become an enabler to sexual predators.” 
On the subject of efforts to silence women who have spoken out against people like Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, Reade told me: “Sexual violence is one of the biggest problems we have in this country. You can’t ignore it. This tactic of smear and ignore [by the media] is not going to be effective with me. I will not be intimidated. I will not be silenced.” 
(Regarding Epstein, two women have now placed Bill Clinton at the now-dead pedophile’s private sex island. But journalists have largely ignored the bombshell news.) 
She reiterated that she has nothing to gain from this, saying, “No one is paying me. It has literally cost me everything.” Regarding celebrity and media love for the Biden/Harris ticket, Reade is adamant: 
I don’t care if oligarches or celebrities are supporting him. What is more important to me is sexual assault survivors are allowed to come forward and have their stories told. By coming out, I lost a lot. But I don’t regret it. 
I asked her about another topic journalists will likely show little interest in: The #MeToo ramifications of having Bill Clinton speak at next week’s Democratic National Convention. Reade replied:  
It’s unconscionable. Remember, I’m a lifelong Democrat. I voted for him and believed in him. It is unconscionable that he is being allowed to speak and it speaks volumes about the Democratic National Committee… The only way we can stop human trafficking and sexual violence is to call it out and shine a light on it and not allow these people to continue in power.    
As to whether many in the mainstream media are calling and talking to her? “The networks? No. Radio silence.” 
In a May 8 interview with Megyn Kelly, Reade stated that she brought her 1993 allegations to Senator Harris. In an April 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle podcast, Harris said of Reade: “Listen, this woman has a right to tell her story, and I believe that, and I believe Joe Biden believes that, too.” In the podcast interview, Harris stated of her future running mate: “She has a right to tell her story, and she shouldn’t face any repercussions for that.” 
Reade was clear to me that sexual assault accusations should not be partisan. Journalists who aggressively investigate claims against conservatives and Republicans have a responsibility to do so against liberals and Democrats. And given Harris’s insistence that she believes Biden’s accusers, the press must demand answers on the decision to join this presidential ticket. 
In April, NewsBusters published a study showcasing the virtual blackout of Reade’s accusations. For a month, ABC and NBC ignored it. CBS allowed 63 seconds. By June, they were back to ignoring it. 

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