Kyle Rittenhouse: Anatomy of a divisive distraction
Kyle Rittenhouse: Anatomy of a divisive distraction The teenager’s trial for double murder is a case study in how the media covers a story to distract and divide the public. Kit Knightly How many people reading this think that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist who shot three black people? Probably more than a few. The truth is that all three of the shooting victims were white. And yet, yesterday, on the day of the verdict being announced, the UK Independent ran this frontpage, describing the victims as black: This is after three weeks of a live-streamed trial in which one of the victims had actually testified on the stand . Think about that, in the most high-profile trial for years, the press can’t even be relied upon to get the race of the victims right. Is this an accident? Of course not. It’s all part of a disinformation campaign designed to turn one tragic violent incident into a narrative that serves a bigger agenda by further dividing the public into racial and p...