How Do You Know?

Once upon a time news stories were written using what was called the “4Ws”—who, what, where when. Nearly 50 years ago that began to be replaced by the point-of-view style of reporting. One of the implications of the point-of-view style is, obviously, having a point-of-view and, increasingly, major media outlets have settled on one point of view.

The weakness of that is that if something is outside that point of view, it does not get reported on. Is the United States actually becoming increasingly antisemitic? Or are we admitting an increasing number of people who are antisemitic? Both? Neither? How do you know?

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  • steve Link

    Every time I read that something is not being reported upon it usually takes just a few seconds to find multiple reports on the topic. There are many reports from many people with different points of view on the antisemitism issue. Read Pinker’s piece in the NYT about Harvard in which he comments upon it. Seems pretty balanced. I would repeat that the largest assault on Jews (measured by deaths) was in 2018 in Pittsburgh. There weren’t many calls to do something then that would result in actions against a group of people.

    Steve

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