[Ads-l] Copaganda

[James Landau]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/29/2139011/-Virginia-cop-killed-by-police-after-allegedly-killing-three-people-and-abducting-teen-he-catfished?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email

<quote><snip>n a very big and disturbing new case out of Riverside, California, it might be unclear to you whether or not Austin Edwards—the 28-year-old cop who allegedly catfished a teenager before killing her family—was an active officer of the law at the time of the crime. For example, as folks on Twitter immediately picked up on, NBC News—a legitimate and reputable outlet—initially ran a story with the headline vaguely framing Edwards as a “law enforcement worker.” To me, and apparently, to many readers, this headline suggests, if anything, Edwards was perhaps a “bad apple” who had once been employed in law enforcement and was no longer.And that, my friends, is the beauty of cultural “copaganda.” Police get the benefit of the doubt all of the time, including, sadly, in the media. But as covered by BuzzFeed News, for example, we know that Edwards had been a trooper in the Virginia State Police. He resigned from the role in October. But his career in law enforcement didn’t end there—he actually worked for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia after that.<end quote>
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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