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MEDIA DOWNPLAYED WAUKESHA PARADE ATTACK WHEN FACTS DIDN’T ALIGN WITH
PREDETERMINED NARRATIVE, EXPERTS SAY


JEFFREY MCCALL SAID, 'LEFT-LEANING MEDIA OUTLETS TODAY WANT TO FRAME EVERY STORY
THROUGH THEIR PREDETERMINED NARRATIVE LENSES'


By Brian Flood | Fox News
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MEDIA TOP HEADLINES NOVEMBER 29

In media news today, a 'Good Morning America' guest worries omicron variant
could hurt Biden's economic 'progress,' CNN gets roasted for a tweet about the
Waukesha parade attack, and a New York Times columnist says he has a 'high
tolerance' for inflation.

It’s been a little over a week since a career criminal plowed his red Ford
Escape SUV through barricades and into the crowd at the Waukesha Christmas
Parade, killing six people and injuring dozens. 




The attack initially seemed like it would be the next major mainstream media
storyline – but then Darrell Brooks Jr. was charged with five counts of
first-degree intentional homicide and the press has largely lost interest. The
tragedy hasn’t resulted in round-the-clock cable news discussion about Brooks’
troubled past or possible motives, and mainstream investigative reporters don’t
appear to be searching for clues. 

"Left-leaning media outlets today want to frame every story through their
predetermined narrative lenses. That's what is happening here with the reporting
of the Waukesha Christmas parade story," DePauw University professor and media
critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News Digital. 



Waukesha parade horror suspect Darrell Brooks Jr. has a long criminal history.
(Waukesha PD)

WAUKESHA PARADE SUSPECT DARRELL BROOKS FACING 5 COUNTS OF 1ST-DEGREE INTENTIONAL
HOMICIDE, HELD ON $5M BAIL



Brooks’ violent past stretches back to 1999, when he was accused and later
convicted of aggravated battery with intent to cause great bodily harm. Most
recently, he allegedly ran a woman over and punched her in the face on Nov. 2.
He has an outstanding warrant in Nevada for skipping bail on a sex crime charge
and has shared a variety of alarming social media posts that could help provide
a motive. 



"These points were missing from recent reporting from CNN. In fact, not only
have most outlets avoided digging into Brooks and a potential motive, they've
avoided Brooks' involvement altogether," Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer, a
former CNN digital producer, wrote. 

CNN shocked on Sunday by declaring a moment of silence would mark one week since
"a car" drove through the parade. Last week, The Washington Post used a similar
tactic, tweeting the tragedy was "caused by a SUV" as both liberal outlets
failed to mention who was driving the red Ford Escape in widely mocked, viral
tweets. In the article chronicling the events of the parade, the Post continued
to rely on the vehicle as the apparent cause of the bloodshed. 



Screenshot/Twitter

Even after Brooks was finally mentioned in the fifth paragraph of the Post
story, the following paragraphs read, "The SUV then drove down Main Street,
hitting more than 40 people and killing at least five of them… Down the road,
instead of following the parade route and make a turn to get to Wisconsin
Avenue, the SUV went straight through North West Avenue, passing over the
barriers."

WAUKESHA CHRISTMAS PARADE WITNESSES DESCRIBE CHAOS, BLOOD



Much like CNN was roasted for blaming the car, critics pummeled the Post on
social media for villainizing the SUV.




"Cars, of course, don't drive. People drive cars," Krakauer wrote in his
newsletter. 

"Democracy dies in darkness, as the WashPost slogan goes now. So does,
apparently, the effort to hide the culprit of a mass killing if it doesn't fit
into a preferred narrative," Krakauer added. "Here we see a bias of omission -
and a window into the sad reality that our media is not learning from its
mistakes." 

Darrell Brooks was charged with killing multiple people and injuring nearly 50
after plowing through a Christmas parade with his sport utility vehicle on
November 21, but the mainstream media quickly lost interest. (Photo by Jim
Vondruska/Getty Images) (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images  |  Wisoncin DOJ)

McCall agrees, noting what is omitted from a news story is often as important as
what is included. 




"This ‘journalism of omission’ is being done consciously and does a disservice
to the news consuming public," McCall said. "Context in news stories is
important and the background of the alleged perpetrator is part of that
context. It provides a sense of causation for why an event happened. These news
topics are sensitive, of course, but it does society no good when news outlets
want to sanitize content in order to massage public perception." 

CNN and the Post are hardly the only liberal news organizations to downplay the
attack, or Brooks’ role. 

MEDIA BLASTED FOR REFERRING TO WAUKESHA PARADE ATTACK AS 'CRASH'



As of Monday morning, The New York Times had not covered the parade attack since
Nov. 25. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow recently spent an entire segment on the horrific
attack without mentioning Brooks once. She only referred to him as "the suspect"
and MSNBC didn’t put his mugshot on screen during the segment, either. 




MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow didn’t think it was necessary to mention Darrell Brooks
Jr. during a lengthy segment on the parade attack.  (Getty Images/AP)

CNN ROASTED FOR TWEET SAYING WAUKESHA PARADE ATTACK WAS CAUSED BY 'A CAR' THAT
DROVE THROUGH PARADE

"CNN and other liberal media outlets are portraying this as a car problem and
shying away from focusing on the perpetrator because it would not fit their
narrative that 'White supremacists' are the greatest threat of domestic
terrorism," Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson
told Fox News Digital. 



"Just look how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse, who committed no crime but was
immediately falsely portrayed as a White supremacist militia member," Jacobson
added. "Narrative, not facts or evidence, seems to be guiding CNN and others."

"3 left-leaning friends have independently texted me about this Vanishing
National Story. They understand what’s happening, but can’t quite bring
themselves to flat-out say it. ‘It’s f***ed up’ one wrote. 2 concede they now
better understand conservatives’ media complaints," Fox News contributor Guy
Benson tweeted. 



WAUKESHA PARADE ATTACK: DEBRA MESSING BLASTS MEDIA FOR DOWNPLAYING MASSACRE AS
AN 'ACCIDENT'



Waukesha parade suspect Darrell Brooks arrives in court for his arraignment.

Other media outlets have referred to the attack as a "parade crash," downplaying
the intent prosecutors have leveled against the career criminal. 

PBS wrote "Waukesha parade crash devastates holiday favorites ‘Dancing
Grannies.’" USA Today repeatedly wrote about the "Waukesha parade crash" going
so far as to label Brooks as the "Waukesha parade crash suspect." Newsweek also
updated news on the tragedy under the banner "Waukesha Deadly Christmas Parade
Crash."



"BREAKING: Prosecutor: 6th person, a child, has died in deadly Wisconsin parade
crash," CBS News correspondent David Begnaud tweeted Tuesday. 




"Man charged for Waukesha parade crash made 1st court appearance," NPR similarly
declared in a headline. 

CNN, HuffPo, ABC, Yahoo and Time Magazine have also referred to the horrific
incident as a crash, too. 

The framing even roused the ire of outspoken liberal actress Debra Messing. 



"Dear Mainstream Media—a man intentionally drove his car through a parade
killing 6 and injuring 50+. It was not an ACCIDENT," Messing tweeted last week.
"Call it by its name #WaukeshaMassacre."



"And it was a domestic terror attack. Don't minimize. Please," she added. 

Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center feels the press simply lies
to the American public. 




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"If you really paid attention to the legacy media, you'd think a self-driving
car had committed an act of terrorism," Gainor told Fox News Digital. 



"The legacy press lie … about everything. They lied about Trump, Russia, Biden,
Hunter Biden and more. And they'll keep lying because it's the only thing they
have left," Gainor continued. "A huge percentage of Americans doesn't trust them
and the rest are catching on. Left-wing journalists are clinging to their waning
power like a drowning man grabs a log in a flood." 



Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Stephanie Pagones, Lindsay Kornick and Michael
Ruiz contributed to this report. 

Brian Flood covers the media for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at
@briansflood.


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