AOC: Journos Shouldn't Give 'Both Sides' Of Every Issue When It Comes to 'White Supremacy & Racism'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Aug. 09, 2019

New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has released a handy guide to journos explaining why covering both sides of an issue (in accordance with the basic tenets of honest journalism) is actually wrong.

If I were a journalist/worked in news, this is what I’d do rn:

1. Interview actual experts on white supremacy & give them space (more than 2mins or lines) to educate the public on WS, what to look for. Often.

2. Not frame white supremacy&racism as a “conflict” or “debate”... /1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 5, 2019

3. Don’t let Neo-Nazis on TV,to buff their image or couch racism in “reasonable”-seeming terms/appearance!Sounds obvious but it just happened a few wks ago. Supremacists are experts at manipulation,incl manipulating smart people. You will open a box you don’t know how to contain.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 5, 2019

In case you're wondering who exactly classifies as a "white supremacist"...

Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist. I said yes.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2019

Further, AOC said yesterday that "white supremacy" is a "virus" which lies "dormant" in all of "us," including potentially "perfectly normal, good people."

Under AOC's rules, all news media should consist of exclusively establishment-approved "experts" droning on and on about "white supremacy" and explaining how everything is "racist" and our whole society needs to revolve around "fighting racism" -- with no one being allowed to provide any counterpoints or engage in any debate (lest these "experts at manipulation" convince people with their "supremacist" arguments!).

Come to think of it... these are the rules our already media follows, so I'm not sure who exactly she is targeting.

That said, AOC ended her tweet thread by demanding the news media -- which she said is "suffering bc of lack of diversity" -- hire more "editors of color," so perhaps this is just one big Al Sharpton-style grift to help her "allies" cash in on some sweet media gigs.

4. Also, have editors of color! Diversity not only in lowest ranks, but highest. News is behind on huge stories & coverage is suffering bc of lack of diversity. I’ve been invited to editor roundtables just utterly shocked that no poc were present. In 2019. That’s a big problem.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 5, 2019

[Header image by Dimitri Rodriguez, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.]

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