Eric Boehlert: Press Stopped Caring About Critical Race Theory Exact Time GOP Did

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/12/media-critical-race-theory


Press Stopped Caring About Critical Race Theory Exact Time GOP Did
Shocker! Now that the racists have been elected, the journalists don't need to highlight the GOP crying about CRT anymore!
By Eric Boehlert — December 18, 2021
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Whatever happened to critical race theory?

Just one month ago, the media bombarded news consumers with CRT coverage, announcing it had been the defining issue in the GOP’s surprise Virginia governor victory, and was likely going to sink Democrats nationwide during the 2022 midterms. All year, the press couldn’t be bothered with pointing out that CRT isn’t actually taught in public schools, and that the GOP’s hysterical campaign — it’s an attempt to “indoctrinate the kids” — was based on lies.

Yet suddenly, the topic seems to have disappeared into the ether. “No one is talking about CRT now that the election is over,” tweeted journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the acclaimed 1619 Project. “That media stopped reporting this made-up controversy speaks to the complicity in the propaganda campaign.”

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A lengthy October piece from the New York Times, “How Republicans Are Weaponizing Critical Race Theory Ahead of Midterms,” was another classic of the genre. It wasn’t until the 13th paragraph that the Times acknowledged CRT isn’t taught in public schools. Incredibly, four paragraphs later the Times reported, “But Republicans say critical race theory has invaded classrooms.”

That broken model was used all year by the press — CRT represents a political boon for Republicans, regardless of whether or not its classroom claims are built on lies. Instead of forcefully debunking, journalists remained overly impressed with how the GOP was able to turn CRT into a big news story, while journalists helped them turn CRT into a big news story.

In a rare bout of Republican truth-telling this year, when Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson allowed the state’s CRT classroom ban to become law without his signature, he conceded it “does not address any problem that exists.”

That should have been the media story all year.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, ... by "media" author means FAUX News who usually sets what rates while rest follow with

... trying to be them without the racism and naked partisanship.

[Brainfodder]

2. CRT is cathode ray tube to me any way?

How soon until the ultra nasty crapping on Waddle Dump by the right?

I don't know him, we hear at Fools News film all kinds of people, who do you all mean?



A smidge of extra credit to the 1st one seen on camera uttering:
"It was obvious day one that he was a crook."

Senator/Rep. ________ follow up: Why did you vote in lockstep with him every time?

[pansypoo53219]

3. enabling the GOP since 1980.

[Sherman A1]

9. Precisely

[jaxexpat]

4. Oh, I so much agree with the assessment and applaud the logical outrage therein.

Monopoly control of media is obviously America's number one problem. Over the last 150 years it's gone from a relatively transparent yet complex issue of which "class" speaks, to simply a matter of ownership, the deed to the press. "Yellow journalism" is profitable, it seems.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. Well, I'd say gullibility is America's number one problem

Since we seem happy to just accept whatever appears on the screen, as long as it has a nice professional looking logo, a person wearing 'business' attire, and the delivery is in step with all the cliches about newscasters. If you do this, people will listen and believe. It is similar to the syndrome where people think that just because someone has money, they are somehow better than we are. This is another cliche that still happens, even though one would think that by now we would realize that it is all empty propaganda and should be taken in that context. One would think...

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The press is a tool of oppression, except when it's not

Muckraking is dead!

[gab13by13]

6. The right wing owns and manages the MSM,

it moved on from bogus CRT to bogus president Biden is failing.

[Martin Eden]

8. The story in the press should be the LIES about CRT

The Repukes are using to fearmonger and enrage their voters.

Instead, the MSM focuses on how it affects the election contests.

[maxrandb]

10. Oh, the press will definitely resuscitate it

I predict in about 6 months, the GOP and MSM will collude to make it the biggest story of the summer and fall.

See the following for example:

- The Iran Hostage Crisis
- The "Monkey Business' boat
- Whitewater
- Presidential Hummer
- Internet Creation
- Swiftboat
- Tan Suit
- Teabagging
- Scientific Climate Change papers
- Butter Emails
- School Board banshees
- Beaver County, PA voter Focus Group

and my personal favorite, "DEMS IN DISARRAY"

Did I miss anything?

[MacKasey]

11. CRT critical Republican theory

[KS Toronado]

12. We need to acknowledge that MSM

is owned by some very wealthy Americans and most of them are reQublicOn voters because they know
Rs will give them tax breaks whenever they are in power. So they slant their reporting anywhere they
can get by with it to make Rs look good and Ds bad. How they spin the Jan 6th conspirators should be
interesting.