Spinning words drives dangerous narrative

OPINION — Ominous, racist, life-threatening, existential threat, xenophobic, sexist, transphobic, lawfare, Nazi, dictator, bullying, victims, religious populist, socialist, marxist, fascist, oligarchy.

Does the harshness of these words really depict reality or are they overplayed media contrivance weaving fear and loathing into hypersensitive narratives? Is it intentional that the tone and prejudices suggested within a persuasive script outshine the truthful facts of the event? Has news reporting fallen into the trough of narration that emphasizes the side-stories more than the evident facts of the event?

Have the media influencers indoctrinated themselves to believe they are psychoanalysts who can  anticipate the emotions and feelings of their audience or are they projecting their own latent neurotic disorders? 

Whatever the event, the media either attempts to accentuate or understate the factual occurrences to opine to the audience they are attempting to influence: e.g.  a man shot in the back and murdered gets lost by overplaying incidental occurrences surrounding the murderous act. All the side stories become the focus of media reporting rather than the indisputable fact that a point blank shot in the back shouldn’t be rationalized as anything other than premeditated cold-blooded murder.

Another media chorus line of reporting is forming around the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The reporting may be interesting, it may prove sickening, to watch the diversionary tactics attempted by the defense team to deemphasize that the alleged assassin’s premeditated actions to use a long-range rifle to target and murder Charlie Kirk as he sat amidst a group of his peers. The reported facts surrounding the assassination appear to be definitive. If the evidence proves infallible only identifying and using a legal loophole may save the alleged assassin.

The media’s choice of words makes it harder to separate fact from prejudicial narratives as they weave bias into news reporting.

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