Video: ‘Steer the Coverage’

by Ed Driscoll | January 29, 2011 4:53 pm

We kick off another year of our Silicon Graffiti videoblog with a look at Old Media’s response to the horrific shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). For anyone who was on Twitter at the time the news first broke, it was quite a sight watching old media’s narrative emerge in real time[1] even before any of the basic facts of the story were known.

But this was far from the first time that a narrative was preformed–or very quickly assembled in the wake of a shock event. We try to place the MSM’s response to the Giffords shooting with some earlier attempts by the MSM to force the facts like a pretzel to fit an existing storyline:

Tune in here to watch:

A larger version of this video[9] is available at Ed Driscoll.com; a handy portable, easily embeddable YouTube format of the video is also available[10]. And click here[11] for three years worth of earlier editions of Silicon Graffiti.

Endnotes:
  1. emerge in real time: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/01/08/arizona-congresswoman-shot-killed/
  2. versus the clip-art: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=13647
  3. and the Prefab Narrative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJM17ou2qg
  4. Iraq without Iraq: http://eddriscoll.com/archives/007649.php
  5. Airbrushing Rev. Wright out of the media: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/07/20/how-the-wright-free-zone-was-built/
  6. “N-Word 15 times.”: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/04/26/i-think-youve-pretty-much-won-this-one-no/
  7. in all the wrong places: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/05/03/cbs-features-ny-mayor-bloomberg-speculating-bomber-was-mad-about-obamac
  8. to steer the coverage: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/17/nyt-say-maybe-we-should-have-waited-for-the-facts-before-blaming-the-right/
  9. A larger version of this video: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/01/27/steer-the-coverage/
  10. is also available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIty-W8xmE
  11. click here: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/category/ed-tv/

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