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When the radical left feels an urgent need to protest, and to make it bitter enough to go viral, it doesn’t want to keep any rules, not even laws. Sunday, Jan. 19, “racial justice” attacked the evangelical Cities Church in Minnesota. Organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong brought at least 20 other people who disrupted the sermon, shouting things like “Justice for Renee Good” and “Hands up, don’t shoot.” The church fell silent, and the activists closed their work after 45 minutes, when the police arrived.
The broadcast networks did not want to acknowledge the story, realizing it might be a little too extreme for the average American. This was a violation of the Freedom of Access to the Clinic Act – and it’s anyone’s guess how vigorously ABC, CBS and NBC would respond to protesters marching into an abortion clinic and disrupting anyone’s “right to choose.” We can guess the same for Trump supporters entering the mosque during their weekly prayers.
But during the week, until Wednesday morning, these networks were able to combine two minutes and 43 seconds between them in their morning and evening newscasts. Much of that was on NBC, because reporter Maggie Vespa gave Armstrong a platform to declare, “They need to investigate Jonathan Ross for the murder of Renee Good, not try to arm their power against non-violent and peaceful protesters.” Armstrong was not asked if disrupting (and basically ending) a church service is “peaceful.”
ABC gave the offensive protest a total of 51 seconds in those first three news cycles, while CBS News — the purportedly Trump-friendly network under new boss Bari Weiss — gave only 14 seconds to that point.
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Anti-ICE protesters chanting at a Minneapolis church on Sunday. (Facebook/DawokeFarmer2)
All in all, the church protest, when it has to be talked about, was consolidated into a consistent template of “growing protests” and “escalating conflicts” – in other words, we will play this story as long as possible. The deadly riots after the death of George Floyd were the target of the networks to propose a “racial census” – as if the violent killing of people will lead to a positive result on the “right side of history.”
ABC’s Matt Rivers pressed the church’s protest and expressed Trump’s anger, “as the situation escalates in Minneapolis, as anti-ICE protesters disrupted this Sunday service showing one of the pastors who is also the director of the ICE office, although it is not clear if he was there.”
The “public” broadcasters did not like this story. “PBS News Hour” offered 14 seconds of airtime on Monday and nothing on Tuesday, while airing an eight-minute segment online titled, “Immigrant families allege children in ICE custody face unsafe, unsanitary conditions.” Wednesday, Jan. 21, PBS anchor Geoff Bennett asked the St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her whether the protest was appropriate in the “holy place.” He said no, but added schools and hospitals to the “sanctuary” category.
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Couldn’t find a story on the church protest (except for one AP posting) in most searches of the NPR website. But on Thursday morning, NPR aired a three-and-a-half minute push for the focus group: “Some Trump voters say ICE will go ‘too far.’
Armstrong’s Justice Department case on Thursday provided a demonstration of how serious networks are about violating the FACE Act. ABC skipped it, instead pushing fake news about a 5-year-old boy “detained by ICE” because his father was an illegal alien. CBS gave it 20 seconds to go.
27 seconds of NBC’s most Vespa was giving defense attorney Armstrong: “Well, now the DOJ is announcing the arrest of three protesters on charges, including conspiracy to deprive them of rights. An attorney for one of them told NBC News that they were arrested for a peaceful, non-violent protest at a church.”
It is not “quiet” to force the church service to end with endless shouting.
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All in all, the church protest, when it has to be talked about, was consolidated into a consistent template of “growing protests” and “escalating conflicts” – in other words, we will play this story as long as possible.
ABC and CBS also went overboard on Friday morning. Vespa’s anger in his Friday morning reports came from the left, after Team Trump altered a photo of Armstrong’s arrest to make it look like he was crying after his arrest. In a short burst at the end of each report, Vespa quoted the White House X account run by Kaelan Dorr announcing, “Law enforcement will continue. Documents will continue.”
None of the news clippings received about this week’s attack mentioned the on-stage congratulations to former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who came on the show. Lemon later embarrassed himself by entering into a conversation with people on the street, where he insisted that the irregularities were not “criminal acts.” The media elite know that Lemon is not the best representative of the left’s ideology.
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At this late hour, click-baiters like Lemon are not doing journalism now, even if they protest that they are. What they’re doing is making anti-Trump content clickable, and if that means starting a church attack, then they’re proud to be part of the “struggle.”
The media elite think that opposition to church attacks is a “Republicans Pounce” issue, a right-wing issue, which is why they tend to avoid spending any serious time on it.
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