CNN anchor Jake Tapper went on air and referred to Jan 6 bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man from the DC suburbs.” That was the claim. That was the narrative. Then the photo dropped. And suddenly the word “white” took on a very creative new definition.

Because anyone who has eyes could see immediately that Brian Cole Jr. is not white. Not even close. Yet somehow, on national television, CNN managed to sell that line with a straight face.

The Media Playbook Everyone Knows

This is not new. The public has watched this routine for years. If a suspect is white, the media will shout it from the rooftops. They will engrave it on stone tablets. They will sky write it across the city if they have to, no not HAVE to, NEED to.

But if the suspect is any other race, the coverage suddenly turns into a human interest feature. We learn his favorite soda. His workout routine. His cats name. His astrological sign. How long he has had gout, anything but the one detail they suddenly cannot find in the police report or easily publically sourced details.

Funny how that works.

Main Stream Media looks at the act of misusing race in an story like:

The “It Was Just a Mistake” Excuse

CNN will likely tell us this was just a small error. A script mix up. An intern typo. The kind of innocent mistake that always seems to lean in the same political direction.

Sure. That could have happened.

But people are not stupid. After years of selective facts and careful wording, the benefit of the doubt is gone. When these errors only seem to go one way, the audience stops believing in accidents.

Jake Tapper’s Credibility Problem

What makes this even richer is that Jake Tapper himself has admitted that the media was misled about President Biden’s mental condition. He even wrote a book about it to excuse Main Stream Media from covering it up. It was such an obvious lie about Biden that Jake had to fall on the proverbial sword and pretend the media was just incompetent instead of full of malice. So the same man who now wants grace for a “small mistake” once helped sell the public on a false image of competence.

Way to get high off your own supply, Jake.

And They Wonder Why No One Trusts Them

Mainstream media still pretends they do not understand why their approval rating is lower than hemorrhoids. The answer is right here. It is moments like this. It is narrative first, facts later, if at all.

This is not a credibility crisis on the public’s side. This is earned.

by Sack Head Shaun
Published at The Loftus Party
More from Shaun at https://shrmedia.com
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