This is not satire -- it's just framing things differently.
Originally shared by Shava Nerad
Slate: If it happened there, Oregon edition
what if we were reporting on Bundygate as an overseas insurgency?
Must read.
via Bill Moyers on Twitter
OMG. Too true. Frame it in gold. Apparently this is a series Slate is doing. I'm going to have to subscribe and look for the others.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/05/how_the_u_s_media_would_cover_the_oregon_siege_if_it_happened_in_another.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/05/how_the_u_s_media_would_cover_the_oregon_siege_if_it_happened_in_another.html
It would be reported as an act of terrorism; and there would have been battle cries by warmongers; and they would have sent out their towncriers to sound gongs for call to arms!
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