re: Rich White People?

It is a combination of inherent leftist bias in the media with an equally strong desire by the media to not learn the nuances of a story fully.

I used to work in a newsroom. You can trust me when I say the room is full of people who develop a vision or opinion of a story in a snap, and don’t veer from it unless they uncover overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They do not care about accuracy as much as just blurting something out and moving to the next story. It’s really sad.

They don’t report that St. George was an unincorporated area that was never a part of Baton Rouge to begin with because they can’t explain that nuance in a headline, and that’s as deep as they want to go. They are okay with being wrong about that detail. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s how they think.