How the media lies.
Media fantasy propaganda version:
Example headline:
SFGate: Chicago police: Father of slain boy got gun for protection.
Here’s what then-Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, a skilled shaper of media reports even though he couldn’t lead a hungry dog to a plate of bacon, said to the Associated Press:
It’s real simple. If that gun is not in the house that kid is alive today. We see this happen over and over and over again.
Until something happens with these gun laws, it’s going to continue.
Reality (Santiago is the father that got the gun for "protection"):
And here are the facts that are in evidence, but are being elided from many media reports, and ignored by drunken Garry because they don’t fit The Narrative™ or, as psyops practitioners call it, the Overall Propaganda Campaign. Only themes that support the campaign — in this case, for gun control — and only facts that support the themes are of interest to the propagandist. Or, for that matter, the journalist, since the emergence of New Journalism in the late sixties (or farther back than that, perhaps).
Fact: Michael Santiago is a gang member, or a former gang member.
Fact: He got the gun from another gang member.
Fact: The sale was an unlawful transaction between two prohibited persons.
Fact: his purchase and ownership of the firearm was always illegal under current law.
Fact: The acquisition (however done) and ownership of the firearm by the ganged-up previous owner was always illegal under current law.
Fact: the one propaganda theme that the propagandists of the media won’t tell about this crime, is that Dad of the Year was one of just the sort of gang criminal that the Chicago Police, in their leadership’s Ahabite quest for gun control, doesn’t bother to pursue.