> “Charlie Kirk’s murder was one of the worst moments in recent American history,” read the subhead of an Atlantic piece (9/11/25) by Graeme Wood. (It was apparently much worse than US support for killing thousands of children in Gaza, about which Wood shrugged, “war is ugly,” arguing that it’s “possible to kill children legally”—Atlantic, 5/17/24.)
https://fair.org/home/kirk-coverage-downplayed-magas-culture-of-violence/
#FairOrg #AriPaul #GraemeWood #CharlieKirkShooting #GazaGenocide #KillChildrenLegally #uspol

This. This all the time.

On #FakeNews and #DeepFakes (and #PersonalResponsibility!):

“It's not really the #journalists that are being taken in by things. It's readers. […] The only solution that I could imagine is some kind of new norm by readers. That is, by consumers of media. Right now, I don't get a sense that people feel much shame when they find out that they've been had. If you share a video […] and it turned out not to be real, then: ‘yeah, too bad’. […] I would certainly like more of a burden to be placed on readers. That is, if you're not going to feel ashamed about that kind of thing, then I would hope that the people you shared it to, encourage you to feel that shame. […] I don't see the #media as being the problem here.”

— #GraemeWood, on the #MakingSense podcast (in the subscriber version)

https://samharris.org/podcasts/216-september-3-2020/