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PSA: White journalists who were surprised about what happened at the Capitol are clearly bias and unable to cover the story. Read that again. Yes, correct. If editors can pull off JOCs from covering BLM, White journos should be pulled here.
Who, whoa, whoa?! What am I saying here? If you did not see this coming, if you didnât see this behavior within the white community, if you didnât think your neighbor â or colleague â could have done this, then you are bias and should not be covering this event. Youâre bias.
A few things here:
1. These tweets exposes a hypocritical/double standard that newsrooms apply only towards Journalists of Color.
2. It also falsely equates BLM to genuine insurrectionists. Quite different communities.
3. Journos genuinely âsurprisedâ should not cover this.
1. These tweets exposes a hypocritical/double standard that newsrooms apply only towards Journalists of Color.
2. It also falsely equates BLM to genuine insurrectionists. Quite different communities.
3. Journos genuinely âsurprisedâ should not cover this.
More of 3) If you did not seeing this coming, you are not qualified to write about this. Your coverage will be framed through a problematic lens that has been blind to behavior that has been building for the last four years â actually much longer.
The resulting coverage will be pieces like âI am surprised because a rioter was nice to me on a plane by picking up somethingâ or âa nice guy I worked with was among the attackers... who could have seen?â Or âInsurrectionists date too.â (These are based on real things.)
People who are shocked that a nice person participated in the assault â and white supremacy â is problematic. If that is you, donât get angry or defensive. Just acknowledge your bias... and step aside.
