#media-narratives

#media-narratives

Police-tracked crime, "contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down," says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are "designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don't make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate."

The race to define what the brutal murder of right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk last week means and why it happened has led a lot of people to say a lot of things. Some of those things, like blaming the sci-fi shooter Halo for fomenting class warfare, or suggesting the alleged shooter was radicalized by the "meme-ification" of the internet, look increasingly like absurd, knee-jerk, and ill-informed reactions,

In the hours immediately after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in front of a large crowd of students at a Utah university on Wednesday, there was no word on who had actually done it and no explanation for why it had happened. But, in Washington, those who profess certainty no longer need much in the way of facts: partisans come equipped with preëxisting truths, and events are slotted into narratives that existed long before the events occurred.

The Beckham brand represents a contemporary family dynamic where public and private life intertwine, showcasing an image carefully curated through social media for a global audience.

"Ghislaine Maxwell currently serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to sexually abuse underage girls might be a victim of Epstein, and more cynically, of political enemies."

A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin on May 15 commemorated the Nakba, leading to false claims of police violence that were disproven by video evidence.