Today at Hotair we see that CBS has provided proof that Donald Trump’s assertions about Baltimore
The murder rate in Baltimore is higher than that of Honduras, El Salvador, or Guatemala—the three Central American nations driving our border surge.
Democrats have run Baltimore for 5 decades. It’s time for accountability.
Today’s news: https://t.co/xb9E3Be3a3 pic.twitter.com/tDq50ExvWm
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 1, 2019
are in fact true
Charm City ended 2018 with a total of 309 murders, according to the Baltimore Police Department. So far in 2019, police report 196 homicides have occurred. Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 2018 population estimate for the city of 602,495, Baltimore’s 2018 murder rate is 51.3 murders per 100,000 residents.
The article ends with two simple words. CLAIM: TRUE.
The real significance of this piece is that it is NOT from CBS news, but from CBS Baltimore the local affiliate.
What does this mean, it means DaTechGuy’s 3rd law of Media outrage is at work.
The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.
Because of the confirmation of the White House assertion is diametrically opposed to the Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking points concerning the president they can not be safely reported on the national level. They can however be safely reported on the local level by CBS Baltimore because the people in Baltimore already know how dangerous their city.
More importantly it allows them CBS to counter any claim they that they are hiding the fact by stating they in fact covered the story, they just did so without raising said coverage to national level, after all there are only so many minutes in a CBS news broadcast you know.
If I was the White House I’d have President Trump shout from the rooftops that CBS has confirmed their claims and if I was his campaign I’d have a bunch of blogs along with a bunch of people on twitter not only tweeting out CBS CONFIRMS WHITE HOUSE ASSERTION ON BALTIMORE, but I’d have a dedicated crew of bloggers searing the local CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS affiliates for stories like this that get burred on the local level.
But that’s just me.
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