ArticlesJune 2, 20201 min read

Handiwork of media

Sam Webb

The largely non-violent marches of tens of thousands of mainly young people are being crowded out in the public mind by images of violent confrontations with police and burning police cars and a glossing over of aggressive police tactics. This distortion of reality is the handiwork of the media, which runs to these confrontations like flies do to sh-t.

No one is happier with this media misrepresentation than Trump, Barr, and all. Feeling increasingly on the defensive, they would like nothing better than to change the national conversation from the legitimate, just, and accumulating grievances over racist policing as well as their gross mishandling of the pandemic sweeping the country and striking communities of color with particular ferocity to law and order and public safety.

We have seen this movie before, but I don’t think it will work this time.

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Sam Webb

I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago. While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut. I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.

Handiwork of media

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