(You have to go to the citation to read all
these tweets etc.)

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https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2021/11/just-how-bad-was-media-coverage-of-the-rittenhouse-case-judge-for-yourself/

Just How Bad Was Media Coverage of the Rittenhouse Case? Judge For Yourself
A collection of lies about the Kyle Rittenhouse case

ByNate Ashworth-November 22, 2021
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The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended last week with a full acquittal on
all charges. The jury bought Rittenhouse’s claim that he was acting in
self-defense when he shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber,
and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz. All three men were distinctly white. The
events transpired during riots and protests to the police shooting of
Jacob Blake, a black man with a knife who resisted arrest while
threatening officers. Blake survived the police shooting, but you
wouldn’t know that based on some of the most ridiculous media narratives
still circulating the globe that have pronounced him dead at the hands
of Rittenhouse.

If you understand the basic facts in that above paragraph, you are more
educated and informed than 95 percent of the reporting that has come out
from most major media outlets leading up to and after the Rittenhouse
trial concluded. The level of misinformation is staggering, and the
repeating of lies and false statements by so-called journalists that
should know better is embarrassing and dangerous.

Drew Holden, a freelance commentary writer for many major media outlets,
put together perhaps the most complete and thorough record of media
misinformation surrounding the Rittenhouse case starting last summer.
Holden’s Twitter threads have captured the bulk of the most outrageous
and incorrect assertion about the case. Here is a sampling of Holden’s work.

There is and never has been any information or indication that
Rittenhouse was linked to any known white supremacist groups, or
espoused any beliefs or views sympathetic to their cause. There was
never any reason to believe this or evidence of such, yet it persisted
in so-called respected media outlets for months and continues.

Many media outlets attacked President Trump last summer, though he has
since been completely vindicated for not rushing to judgment:

Many publications have tried to frame the story in terms that were
unfavorable to Rittenhouse. Don’t like the facts of the case? Ignore
them, and write it up a different way with a better headline your
foolish readers will enjoy:

Aside from media outlets, politicians got in on the act. Democrats
embarrassed themselves falling over each other to condemn Rittenhouse
with all manner of slander and defamatory labels, especially President
Biden as a candidate last year:

It’s not just embarrassing, it’s dangerous, as this type of rhetoric
fuels more unrest, enrages more people, and will end up causing violence
based on lies:

Beyond Holden’s tremendous Twitter thread, there are other examples of
straight-up lies and misstatements that have spread far and wide at the
hands of dumb celebrities and commentators spouting off like imbeciles.

For some reason, without a basic Google search, many left-wing
journalists and political staffers believe Jacob Blake is dead, a false
assertion:

And again:

This should help clear things up, celebrities are great at helping calm
our overheated political divisiveness. Noah Cyrus is the sister of Miley
Cyrus, and also a moron:

It’s not just celebrities getting this basic fact wrong, journalists
have repeated it on air, spreading the misinformation further and wider:

This stuff is still circulating by so-called legitimate news outlets
that should do some basic companywide fact checks and send out a memo:

The non-journalist side of Twitter remains a cesspool of lies and hatred
based on more lies:

In a free society, people are free to be wrong and misinformed. They’re
also free to spout off and rage about the lies they think are true. This
is fine if it stays on Twitter, but it causes other individuals to feel
rage and distrust the justice system when they’re being lied to about
the basic facts of a highly politicized major court case.

Sadly, most of these individuals will never admit or correct their lies,
meaning others will consume them and accept them as their own.

America doesn’t have a functioning objective media any longer. We have
partisan hacks masquerading as journalists, more eager to push an agenda
that deliver the facts.

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