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Problem-Reaction-Solution: LA Times Uses Mass Shooting To Attack Journalists

Ephrom Josine
5 min readAug 6, 2019

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There is currently a war on independent journalists, no one is denying that. However, there is also a shadow war much fewer people are talking about. That being the war to snip the few remaining people in the mainstream media that actually qualify as journalists.

I covered this back during the New Zealand Massacre — including the odd habit to only give White attackers this treatment.

As I said at the time:

Was American media wrong for how it handled the attacks on 9/11? (Which, may I remind you, involved constant coverage without even a single commercial break by some networks) Did that “create new terrorists?” Of course not! Should we not be allowing books on the Holocaust as it will “create more Nazis?” No! Should we not allow the terrors of the USSR be told as it will “create another Stalin?” I refer you to my previous two answers.

To that question I add, was Ben Shapiro wrong to Tweet this:

Yes, I remember how laws drastically changed after Omar Mateen murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub and after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 at a community center-2/15/2018

The two recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton have caused this idea to come back into public discourse. This is…

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Ephrom Josine
Ephrom Josine

Written by Ephrom Josine

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