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As per today's developments, I think the conspiracy theories related to the government controlling the media and labeling them unhuman terrorists can stop. See:
by res0nat0r 13y ago
As per today's developments, I think the conspiracy theories related to the government controlling the media and labeling them unhuman terrorists can stop. See: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
- gee_totes 13y agoI'm actually pretty happy about that cover. We need to start having a more nuanced view of people. A common thread between the three people in this discussion: Trayvon Martin, Dzhokar Tsarnev, and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki is that they are all young men who were killed and can be commonly reduced to stereotypes to fit a narrative (young black man up to no good, terrorist, terrorist). But, when you dig a little deeper, it turns out there's a person under that sterotype! I'm happy to see the media start to see this and a national conversation grow around this; hopefully it will make us better human beings.
- ferdo 13y ago> A common thread between the three people in this discussion: Trayvon Martin, Dzhokar Tsarnev, and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki.... They were all also unarmed when they were murdered.
- droithomme 13y agoDzhokhar is alive, he's in custody.
- ferdo 13y agoThanks. I misread the name.
- onebaddude 13y agoWhen people insinuate government control of the media, they aren't implying that the editorial boards of every form of media run their material by a government representative, to which they get a yay/nay. It's quite a bit more nuanced that that. So I'm not sure that seeing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of a mainstream magazine should end the "conspiracy theories".
- rooshdi 13y agoIt's much more subtle than some people realize. There's not much need for a formal conspiracy when the incentives align themselves.