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Drudge's Race-Baiting Is Only Getting Worse
September 6, 2013 5:14 PM EDT EMILY ARROWOOD
A new study from The New Republic determined that the Drudge Report's use of race-baiting headlines has soared in the last five years, a fact that lends context to the recent flood of conservative media amplifying random, interracial crimes and baselessly assigning them a racial motive.
Matt Drudge's conservative website Drudge Report is infamous for its obsessive coverage of alleged black-on-white crime and race-baiting headlines. But it's only getting worse, according to a new analysis by The New Republic. The magazine analyzed Drudge's use of race-related terms in headlines after 2008 -- the year President Obama established himself as a national figure with his first presidential campaign -- with Drudge headlines before 2008, and the results are striking. According to the analysis, since 2008, Drudge headlines:
Referencing "racism" have more than tripled
With the term "racist" have nearly doubled
Containing "black" and "crime" have quadrupled, and
Have included the n-word eight times, a slur not found in Drudge headlines before 2008
Notably, the analysis highlighted that Drudge often altered headlines to inject a racial component when the original source contained none. This method of race-baiting has spilled over into the broader media. Recently, conservative outlets have seized upon local crime stories and baselessly assigned them racial motives when no such evidence existed. This spate of reckless race-baiting has been repeatedly accompanied by inapt comparisons to the killing of Trayvon Martin, an attempt to highlight a supposed double standard among civil rights leaders and media figures.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/06/drudges-race-baiting-is-only-getting-worse/195762
Skinner
(63,645 posts)Drudge? Race-baiting?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)But it's nice to know somebody did a study on this to prove what we already knew to be true
blm
(113,095 posts).
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)According to the study, it's actually getting worse still
otohara
(24,135 posts)to hate a whole lot of other people including AA's, the unemployed, the disabled, food stamp recipients and of course POTUS
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)not a bit
xfundy
(5,105 posts)All we need to do is decide which state would hold them all. I'm thinking Texas, airlifting out the few liberals there, then "Let's build the dang fence!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023643702
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Daily Mail is a right wing rag.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)By David Ferguson
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a group of college students Friday morning that the only hope for U.S. electoral politics is Republican Sen. Rand Paul (KY) and his brand of Libertarian politics. According to the right-wing college news site CampusReform.com, the international fugitive and accused acquaintance rapist also heaped praise on right-wing blog mogul Matt Drudge, calling him a media innovator.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/16/julian-assange-praises-matt-drudge-as-news-media-innovator/