US Gun Violence Victims Harassed by Conspiracy Theorists

[Minimalist]

You mean the MSM reporting that is currently holding the WLB's nuts to the fire?

I'm glad we've got them and don't have to rely on right-wing nut jobs.

[Autumnlicious]

And here I thought Reagan’s undoing of the fairness doctrine along with allowing big media to merge into giant corporations created a profit-motivated environment to drum up as much outrage for huge advertising returns, contributing to significantly less trust towards the media in general...

And how Fox News and the rest of the GOP Talk radio are the top of the class for profitability and control over their right wing audience...

Nope, according to FFaith it’s because the media is “controlled” as opposed to growing in an environment of perverse economic incentives started first with President Ronald Reagan for the benefit of his political party.

Gee, and all these scientists keep telling me the world is full of causes, effects and context that makes blanket assertions of control that require incredible amounts of coordination unlikely. Hmmmmmmmmm.....

[Amarok]

The Russian press is an organ of their government. At least (so far) the US has a free press that will roll the government over a slow fire for their blunders. The loofa-faced shit goblin is trying to shut that down by calling it "fake news". How I wish that the US populace had more savvy.

What's funny is that you don't see that MSM propaganda is in part to blame for people holding these whacky theories about Sandy Hook and other tragedies. MSM lies so often that they have lost all credibility, that some people are starting to refuse to believe anything they report. This is just what happens when you lie so much and when MSM is so controlled. There is no free press. And when the government is known to have considered bombing people to blame it on foreign agents, people are going to think that things like that could still happen today. Of course the Sandy Hook theories are dumb because it would be so much easier just to kill the kids, but you need to keep in mind that this kind of whacky talk about these tragedies is only helping your cause. It's making people who question the establishment look like a bunch of retards. It is unfortunate that people or people related to victims are being messed with though.

Yay your own conspiracy nuttery mixed with media bashing

[Jackalope]

I decided to post this after reading another thread about Sandy Hook supposedly being a hoax cooked up by the US government to take away people's guns.

(The OP of that thread said "liberals" not "government".)

You know, it occurs to me to ask: If liberals conspired to X in order to Y, where is all of the Y? And if liberals are so inept that their X resulted in no Y, why are conservatives so afraid of them?

IOW, if liberals conspired to fake mass shootings in order to grab guns, where is all of the gun grabbing? And if liberal hoaxing in order to grab guns doesn't result in actual gun grabbing, why would anyone fear that kind of ineptitude?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And as I said in that very thread:

Is anyone else nostalgic for the days when conspiracy theorists claimed the government orchestrated massive tragedies like this to advance their nefarious agendas and didn't fabricate them out of full cloth when it would just be easier to find some sufficiently fucked up guy with access to guns and convince them it would be a good idea to shoot up a school?

Pearl Harbor has a been a passion for since 1965. It's a classic example of using conspiracy advocacy to attack a person.

[Seraphina]

I decided to post this after reading another thread about Sandy Hook supposedly being a hoax cooked up by the US government to take away people's guns.

(The OP of that thread said "liberals" not "government".)

You know, it occurs to me to ask:   If liberals conspired to X in order to Y, where is all of the Y?  And if liberals are so inept that their X resulted in no Y, why are conservatives so afraid of them?

IOW, if liberals conspired to fake mass shootings in order to grab guns, where is all of the gun grabbing?  And if liberal hoaxing in order to grab guns doesn't result in actual gun grabbing, why would anyone fear that kind of ineptitude?

Whoa, Cthulhu, that's way too much logical thinking there...enough to make the conspiracy nutters' empty heads explode.

-Teresa