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The United Federation has been underfunding and defunding their education system for decades, and it's why their outlets get away with the pandering they do. We had insiders present for the Bigtopian Lives Matter movement and a lot of what Edward Rump did in response to that. We expected that their less conservative media sources would be interested in accurately reporting that particular event, but no, even they couldn't be bothered.

Unfortunately, the same freedom of speech that should protect the BLM protestors also protects the media. When we've restricted one, we've restricted both. To preserve one subset of rights but not the other would render us hypocrites. As bad as it is for the BLM movement's credibility, the media has to be free to misreport because the side effect of misreporting in the preservation of rights is less egregious than the impact of setting a precedent that we can limit rights in the name of enforcing truth -- and if we're going to enforce truth, we have to define what the truth is and who defines it. That leads us on a dangerous path toward state controlled propaganda machines.

{OoC: I live in the Seattle area. As a queer person, Capitol Hill is kind of my backyard. I was very interested in knowing more about the Black Lives Matter protest happening there, and I even ended up volunteering after I'd scoped it out for myself. I started out as basic barricade security but ended up becoming more relied upon over time as I got to know some of the leadership better and sharing the benefit of my military and civilian security experience with them. By the time I had to return to "real" life, I was helping to manage the barricade details and providing the media teams that wanted interviews with security details for their safety.

{BLM Seattle reached out to MSNBC and NPR in the hopes of using them to correct FOX's narrative. MSNBC maintained radio silence and never responded to us. NPR specifically told us they couldn't report on it honestly without damaging the movement's credibility because they'd discovered (accurately) that there were direct ties between BLM leadership and gang activity, and they'd have to report all of it if they were going to report any. Silence, NPR said, was the best support they could offer us. We just assumed the same was true of MSNBC and quit trying. In spite of understanding, it frustrated me. There was no voice for BLM or objective reporting on what was going on inside those barricades during and after when the badges abandoned the precinct. The local FOXNews station showed up once to interview us and report the experience. After their initial local report aired (a report that was very moderate and deviated from the rest of FOX's narrative), none of the anchors with whom we'd originally spoken would return our calls, and their organization only sent in drones to collect video from above or outside while the local station's reports drastically shifted away from the interviews they'd gotten.

{As a fellow player OoC, I appreciate deeply that you took the time to shout out the bullsh*t reporting that happened about BLM. It warmed my heart to know that people know better.}

The United Federation has been underfunding and defunding their education system for decades, and it's why their outlets get away with the pandering they do. We had insiders present for the Bigtopian Lives Matter movement and a lot of what Edward Rump did in response to that. We expected that their less conservative media sources would be interested in accurately reporting that particular event, but no, even they couldn't be bothered.

Unfortunately, the same freedom of speech that should protect the BLM protestors also protects the media. When we've restricted one, we've restricted both. To preserve one subset of rights but not the other would render us hypocrites. As bad as it is for the BLM movement's credibility, the media has to be free to misreport because the side effect of misreporting in the preservation of rights is less egregious than the impact of setting a precedent that we can limit rights in the name of enforcing truth -- and if we're going to enforce truth, we have to define what the truth is and who defines it. That leads us on a dangerous path toward state controlled propaganda machines.

{OoC: I live in the Seattle area. As a queer person, Capitol Hill is kind of my backyard. I was very interested in knowing more about the Black Lives Matter protest happening there, and I even ended up volunteering after I'd scoped it out for myself. I started out as basic barricade security but ended up becoming more relied upon over time as I got to know some of the leadership better and sharing the benefit of my military and civilian security experience with them. By the time I had to return to "real" life, I was helping to manage the barricade details and providing the media teams that wanted interviews with security details for their safety.

{BLM Seattle reached out to MSNBC and NPR in the hopes of using them to correct FOX's narrative. MSNBC maintained radio silence and never responded to us. NPR specifically told us they couldn't report on it honestly without damaging the movement's credibility because they'd discovered (accurately) that there were direct ties between BLM leadership and gang activity, and they'd have to report all of it if they were going to report any. Silence, NPR said, was the best support they could offer us. We just assumed the same was true of MSNBC and quit trying. In spite of understanding, it frustrated me. There was no voice for BLM or objective reporting on what was going on inside those barricades during and after when the badges abandoned the precinct. The local FOXNews station showed up once to interview us and report the experience. After their initial local report aired (a report that was very moderate and deviated from the rest of FOX's narrative), none of the anchors with whom we'd originally spoken would return our calls, and their organization only sent in drones to collect video from above or outside while the local station's reports drastically shifted away from the interviews they'd gotten.

{As a fellow player OoC, I appreciate deeply that you took the time to shout out the bullsh*t reporting that happened about BLM. It warmed my heart to know that people know better.}