British BLM activist has been shot in the head - media bias?

by LoveUniHateExams 22 Replies latest social current

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Sadly, British BLM activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head.

  First, I'd like to wish her a recovery if this is possible.

  But I also think this could be a good test case of how the British media report this event.

  I think it could be good to explore media bias.

  So, we have the right-wing Daily Mail saying that, according to her friend, Sasha Johnson was shot in the head due to being in the cross-fire of a gang shooting, and that she wasn't the intended target, neither was she targeted because of her politics.

  At the other end of the spectrum, the left-wing Guardian is saying that she was shot after receiving death threats, according to her political party that she founded.

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9612115/Drive-gunmen-shot-Black-Panther-Oxford-Sasha-Johnson-head-fired-house-party.html

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/blm-activist-sasha-johnson-in-critical-condition-after-gunshot-to-the-head
  
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  fulano

  How many a day are shot in the head heart or balls? Why is this special?

  Stop this BLM stuff and get back to work... oh sorry.
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  stan livedeath

  welcome to Britain 2021.
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  road to nowhere

  Both? The definition of gang covers BLM and supremacists. Drive by is a gang activity both by rival members in the same gang and between rival ideologies.

  If it is anywhere similar to the USA house parties and riots overlap.
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  LoveUniHateExams

  Quick update:
  

  Now The Guardian is reporting Sasha Johnson 'may have been shot by mistake'.

  From the article:

  They [the police] urged people to avoid speculating as to the motive or the circumstances behind the shooting.
  

  Hilarious! That's what The Guardian were doing originally - speculating her shooting was due to her activism - when they posted the original article which gave a platform to her political party spokesperson.

  Both ends of the media are biased, but in this case, it seems The Daily Mail were accurate.

  No mention in this updated Guardian article about it being a possible gang shooting. They're willing to speculate about shootings caused by political activism but not by gang warfare.
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/24/sasha-johnson-blm-activist-may-have-been-shot-by-mistake
  
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  LoveUniHateExams

  The definition of gang covers BLM and supremacists - no, BLM aren't a 'gang', despite whatever prejudices they may have. BLM is an organisation with a political agenda. That agenda being to weaponise certain crimes against black people to try and insert Marxism into society.

  Gangs as used here refers just to gangs as commonly understood - people going around in groups, committing crime, selling drugs, feuding with each other, shooting each other, whatever.
  
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  road to nowhere

  Where do upstanding brits get a gun? Is it like here where there are restrictions on the law abiding but outlaws are given a pass?
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  LoveUniHateExams

  Where do upstanding brits get a gun? - Brits can get a gun licence and a gun, but we don't have the right to bear arms.

  Gangs use guns and, even more so, knives. Gangs and other criminals just ignore British law, lol.
  
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  stan livedeath

  One gang cancels another. Good..keep it up.
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  Vidiot

  It's all Deepstatelamestreammediafakenews!!!