From ThePostMillennial.com….
The Intercept, a formerly respectable news outlet, released a video on Thursday that takes aim at journalists who covered Antifa violence, BLM protests and riots, and civil unrest during the summer of 2020 and into the winter.
Entitled “Meet the Riot Squad: Right-Wing Reporters Whose Viral Videos Are Used to Smear BLM,” the video is a smear job itself, an effort to frame BLM rioters and Antifa militants as the good guys, and those who cover their mayhem as the the bad ones.
The journalists who are targeted by the intercept were exceptional in their willingness to cover events and circumstances that other outlets would not. Julio Rosas of Townhall,
Jorge Ventura of Daily Caller, Drew Hernandez, Shelby Talcott of the Daily Caller, and others, were taking their independent lens to protests. This is not something that CNN, MSNBC, NPR, or The Intercept can claim to have done.
The video claims that Rosas took stories that would have been merely local, and brought national attention to them, as though this is both a problem and something other journalists don’t do—meanwhile, this happens literally all the time, every day, at nearly every major outlet in the country. And it should. No one would have known about George Floyd’s death in police custody were it not for journalists taking that local story and making it national, and the same could be said for countless other stories that cross the transom every single day.
