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> Third party oversight.

Aren't the journalists supposed to be the third party oversight? Showing and telling the rest of us what's happening so that when one side oversteps we as a society can take action to correct it?

>>elliek+(OP)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

>>elliek+(OP)
That works great until a sitting US president demonizes the journalists for four years.

>>elliek+(OP)
That's hard to do when the police open fire on the journalists.

>>elliek+(OP)
Freedom of the press is certainly important, and if anything changes because of all this, people hearing about it will be instrumental, but it's not a replacement for proper systems of accountability. If the bar for getting away with murder is "don't make national headlines," something is deeply wrong.

Up until now the bar has been far lower than that.

>>elliek+(OP)
The journalists are clipping context out of video that they are broadcasting.

The pink umbrella bit was clipped out of the riot started by police in Seattle on Monday - instead the news agencies started showing footage after pepper spray was deployed.

In Canada, the CBC cut a video right before a police van physically drove its way through a crowd. [1] Anyone else doing that would be described as vehicular assault, possibly attempted manslaughter.

The press isn't holding the police accountable for any of this. It's pushing a narrative that "The appropriate amount of force was used against rioters", without showing the inappropriate use of force that started the riot.

[1] https://twitter.com/_llebrun/status/1267209166545981445?s=20...

>>elliek+(OP)
No, the Judiciary serves as a check on the Executive, so the courts are supposed to be the ones reeling in the police. That's obviously not happening.