The problem below is that the fascists want to suppress speech, oppress women’s healthcare, and repress democracy. Reagan gained a pass from the media when his Alzheimer’s became obvious Trump could gain that same sympathy as the GOP wants to “tone down the rhetoric even as they need to stop Biden from gaining electoral strength. The details do reveal that a middle security tier was allowed to be compromised and what should have been firing from cover made the Trump assassination more ad hoc.
This statement is not symmetric: only one candidate has fomented political violence against any and all opponents, making that reactionary tactic resemble the lawless appearance of a criminal mobster syndicate. In terms of security countermeasures, the liaison between USSSS and local law enforcement may the culprit in the ‘blame game’ for mistakes in security at Butler PA.
“On the Media” published a “Breaking News Consumer Handbook,” that has since become a guideline for how to report in the age of Twitter.
Today’s journalists channel information through far more portals than did the anchors and airwaves of 1981. Now, as then, after a tragedy, viewers (or Facebook and Twitter users) seek a logical thread in “the chaos of the moment,” to use Dan Rather’s words. So much so that the fastest “breaking” headline often forms public opinion. As the nation saw more than 35 years ago, sometimes the truth is just as dramatic as the rumor.
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Unsurprisingly given the circumstances, nearly all of the rage and blame was coming from the 45th president’s fans. But all the same, the former Republican official turned fulsome Trump critic Bruce Bartlett was one of many online who invoked the Reichstag Fire. “I bet he’s planning the American equivalent of the Reichstag fire to justify violence against the left,” Bartlett had posted last week. After the shooting, he added: “Looks like we just had our Reichstag fire.”
The terms trending on X included: “Civil War,” “Where’s Biden?,” “Fake News,” and “The Left” — terms of division and blame.
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It’s not clear how a society pulls itself out of this dynamic. One instinct seems to imply that the immediate result must be to stop criticism of Trump’s own troubling history with regard to the legitimacy of elections. But just as surely there will be an opposite instinct: To suggest that the outrage of Trump’s supporters — Josh Hawley has called for hearings — is illegitimate because, after all, they weren’t so troubled after January 6.
Which is all just to say that the first hours after the gun went off don’t suggest that people in positions of responsibility have any sort of road map to anything other than the next all-too-familiar shock.
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Estimated location of the shooter: 40.858273, -79.970548
Estimated location of Trump: 40.857139, -79.970870
Estimated location of casualties: 40.856939, -79.970926
Estimated location of crane that is hit: 40.856831, -79.971197
Estimated location of this sniper detachment: 40.857092, -79.970372
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