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How bad is the establishment media? How much does it present propaganda disguised as news? How low will it stoop? Here’s a case study.
A “Sioux Falls man” was arrested on Tuesday. It seems that this particular Sioux Falls man was minding his own business, not bothering anybody, livestreaming on Facebook, when he suddenly decided to let the world know that all was not right in the world of Sioux Falls Man. He announced, right on his Facebook livestream, that he was planning to burn a building down. He also brandished a gun and a knife.
Having thus advertised his intentions to the world, Sioux Falls man was arrested, and the local media covered the story. Yet the way that one Sioux Falls “news” outlet presented the facts has implications that go far beyond Sioux Falls and the story of one local boy who went bad.
KELO Newstalk 1320AM 107.9FM is reputedly a conservative outlet, but it initially ran a photo with its story about this Sioux Falls man that was more interesting than the story itself — not for what the photo depicted, but for its implications. Along with the headline “Sioux Falls man is charged with making a terrorist threat” and the details of the story, KELO ran a photo of a man being arrested. His hands are cuffed behind his back, he’s hanging his head in shame, and a police officer is standing behind him, presumably just about to get him into the back of the waiting patrol car, which is also pictured.
You’d reasonably expect, or even assume, that this was a photo of the Sioux Falls man who was livestreaming and announced his plans to commit an act of arson. Yet not only was it not a photo of the perp, but it was a photo that showed someone who was about as different from the perp as it would be possible to get.
In the KELO photo, the arrestee is white. He looks like a fairly average American guy, and could very easily be someone who grew up in Sioux Falls. The reader is given the impression that maybe this is a guy who lost his job, and hasn’t been able to find another one, or had a bad breakup, or experienced something that pushed him over the edge and led him to make threats to burn down a building.
The popular X user End Wokeness pointed out that the real Sioux Falls man who issued this arson threat was not the man in KELO’s photo. Instead, he was a black man named Mohamed Mansarry. Likely because of all the attention KELO received from their false photo (End Wokeness has 3.9 million followers on X), it has taken down the story that it initially circulated with the misleading photo; now all there is at that link is a Page Not Found notice.
There is more. Read the rest here.
40 rounds says
Sioux falls is not exactly a conservative bastion. Most Republicans running for office depend on West River votes to get elected. Lutheran social services has done well in Sioux falls to bring as many non Christian africans into the area. Go to any Walmart and you’ll think you’re in a third world country
GE says
If anybody still thinks it can’t happen in their neck of the woods, I was in Fargo, ND two years ago when a Syrian migrant committed a terror attack. Was planning to hit a street fair downtown or the county fair. Killed a policeman and wounded an innocent bystander before another policeman took him out. We had been at that intersection just one or two days before. His whole apartment complex had to be evacuated while they searched for bombs, incendiary devices, etc.
You’re right 40 rounds, Lutheran Social Services has done a bang-up job. And the other NGOs also.
40 rounds says
For fun you should look at who’s behind bars in the minnehaha county jail. You’d swear you were on a reservation or in the middle east
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Isn’t Sioux Falls actuall in Iowa, rather than South Dakota? It’s North Sioux City (former headquarters of Gateway 2000) that is in South Dakota, the other parts of Sioux City/Falls fall within Iowa
40 rounds says
Nope, check an atlas friend 60 miles apart I believe
Michael says
“Just like us.”
Thinker1 says
I’m beginning to think all news is propaganda.
James Lincoln says
So, just who is that white guy?
Alkflaeda says
In a mirror image move, the UK authorities released Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s name early on, so that people would erroneously conclude that there was no Islamic connection.