Reporting on the Mirror – ABC NEWS
Chalk one up for the accountability crowd.
On Monday, we covered how veteran newsman Terry Moran delivered an emotional screed on Xitter about administration official Stephen Miller that led to him getting suspended. Two days later, the word came down from ABC News that Moran has now been let go entirely.
The delayed reaction might indicate that behind the scenes he had been called in to issue a full apology, and possibly refused. Full disclosure that this is entirely speculated and guessed at – but it sure feels accurate.
Terry Moran Out at ABC Following Suspension Over Anti-Trump Ranthttps://t.co/kLqYs2XFBk
— RedState (@RedState) June 10, 2025
Low-Octane Gaslighting – ABC CHANNEL 7, LOS ANGELES
He makes this sound like a summertime tradition.
With the media struggling with how to frame the ICE riots in L.A., some truly fractured interpretations have emerged. However, anchor Marc Brown of ABC 7 may have delivered the gem of this riot.
When trying to take the position that law enforcement stepping in to quell the violence would actually provoke more of the adverse activity, he was straining to do so with live images of a car fire on their feed.
That was when he attempted to sell this as little more than a genteel tableau taking place in an area where people co-mingle around the automotive conflagration as neighbors and bond as a community.
WATCH: ABC News wants you to know what is happening in California isn’t a violent riot.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 9, 2025
It’s “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.” — ABC 7’s Marc Brown. pic.twitter.com/xjiQZJyuDq
Gilded Reframe – ABC CHANNEL 7, LOS ANGELES
They are having a bit of a tough week over at ABC 7…
It appears that this local affiliate has a really tough time grappling with the application of law enforcement in the face of lawlessness. In response to the deployment of National Guard troops, followed by a few hundred Marines also being sent into L.A.’s war zone, the channel felt it was revelatory to point out there are now more soldiers in their city than in some notable international theaters.
Their account has been flooded with people pointing out to them how it is preferred that our military members be used to protect U.S. citizens as opposed to those residing in other countries.
There are more US troops in LA than in Iraq, Syriahttps://t.co/0gYrz9IuyW
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 10, 2025
Newseum Art Installation – USA TODAY
Think globally, incinerate locally.
Also joining in on the interpretational reporting on these acts of community vandalism was USA Today’s Elizabeth Weise, who did not suggest people stop burning up vehicles, but to take care in which type they elect to firebomb in the streets to minimize the amount of fumes that would be harmful for the environment.
New Artwork Has Been Donated
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) June 11, 2025
When burning cars at your protest, be sure to choose cars giving off lower greenhouse fumes when combusting.#Newseum pic.twitter.com/yrb0bNl0SZ
Both Kinds of Standards – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Some flag wavers are more offensive than others.
To get a sense of where “The Paper of Record” stands on the waving of flags for a cause, we see that it surely is an interpretational issue.
Note that when trying to soften the fractured messaging of people waving Mexican flags here in the U.S., The Times decided it was “a potent L.A. protest symbol.”
But let’s recall that this was the same news source who was not just exposing the flags that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito but declared that a historical flag from American history being flown at his vacation home was deemed to be “provocative.”
The New York Times tried to tell us that a Supreme Court justice's wife flying a flag associated with the Revolutionary War was "provocative" and possibly treasonous.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 10, 2025
They are now telling us that flying foreign flags in the middle of violent riot is "pride in their heritage." pic.twitter.com/jpO8tF86QN
News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS
No need to hear from them when the press is delivering the message.
With all of the insistence in the press that these are not riots in Los Angeles but demonstrations and protests, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld noted a revealing aspect of the news coverage.
One would expect that the thrust of any protest is to deliver a message, and yet, as Gutfeld pointed out, there have been little to no interviews with participants, spokespersons, or anyone else who is on the ground for a cause.
🚨 Fox News’ @greggutfeld calls out liberal media’s L.A. coverage: “What I find interesting is how come the networks aren’t interviewing the protesters? There’s a selective shielding going on. They know the protesters are the worst spokesmen for the protest.”
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 10, 2025
“So, as the media… pic.twitter.com/yoZG8AUc6t
