By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – April 22nd, 2021
Perception vs reality. 35%.That’s the percentage of decline in deaths resulting from officer involved shootings this year compared to the past decade. Would you know that to be the case based on reporting? Or would you be led to think there’s a significant increase? News media in conjunction with political operatives are actively engaged in a potentially deadly game of manipulation. What’s happening with the reporting of officer involved shootings is a different version of a similar thing to human trafficking. According to the Human Trafficking Hotline, an average of 32 people per day are lost to human trafficking in the United States. There’s never a shortage of victim's news media could choose to cover. It’s just that they don’t choose to cover them. That is unless a victim fits the profile they feel fits their objectives for clicks and views (commonly a blond-haired blue-eyed girl). Human trafficking is worse than ever in the United States, aided by Biden’s border policy, news media generally just doesn’t care about those victims. But they do care about furthering President Biden’s narrative of systemic racism in policing and in society generally. This while they ignore, this...