{"id":1460434,"date":"2024-03-02T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1460434"},"modified":"2024-03-02T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:30:00","slug":"wapo-reporter-mocks-shoplifting-stories-as-the-panic-of-a-sticky-fingered-nation-built-on-stolen-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wapo-reporter-mocks-shoplifting-stories-as-the-panic-of-a-sticky-fingered-nation-built-on-stolen-land\/1460434\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Reporter Mocks Shoplifting Stories As The “Panic” Of “A Sticky-Fingered Nation Built On Stolen Land”"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo Reporter Mocks Shoplifting Stories As The “Panic” Of “A Sticky-Fingered Nation Built On Stolen Land”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Washington Post writer\u00a0Maura Judkis<\/a>\u00a0is under fire this week for a\u00a0column<\/a>\u00a0in which she mocks shoplifting stories as the \u201cmoral panic\u201d of a nation built on \u201cstolen land.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is reminiscent of those who excused rioting in past summers \u201cas\u00a0an expression of power<\/a>\u201d and demanded that the media\u00a0refer to looters as \u201cprotesters.<\/a>\u201d <\/strong>Now, the Washington Post is suggesting that it may be just desserts for a nation of colonizers and enslavers.<\/p>\n

The prior day, the Post\u00a0ran another column\u00a0<\/a>downplaying accounts of stores closing due to shoplifting even though\u00a0employees blamed rampant shoplifting<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Judkis wrote a Friday piece entitled \u201cThe zombie CVS, a late-capitalism horror story.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>The hook was another store being looted in D.C. Judkis matter-of-factly describes how<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything else that remains in the store in Northwest D.C., which is not much, is under plexiglass: Dawn dish soap, L\u2019Oreal shampoo, MiraLax, a handful of Clairol root touch-up hair dye kits, flu season combo packs of DayQuil and NyQuil. The diapers are behind the counter. The Cetaphil and Neutrogena face washes are under lock and key. Other shelves, stretching entire aisles, are totally empty. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

The reason for those extreme measures is brushed over. Instead, Judkis uses the story to mock such coverage as\u00a0\u201ca horror story of Late Capitalism\u201d in which \u201cthe empty CVS had somehow become a stand-in for all that is wrong with American cities \u2014 and liberals (and liberal democracy?) \u2014 in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then adds\u00a0\u201cAmerica is a sticky-fingered nation built on stolen land, and its current moral panic is about shoplifting. It\u2019s not just a worry in Columbia Heights. All over the country, from sea to shining CVS, there are concerns about petty theft.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

She dismisses the shoplifting as a\u00a0\u201cpolitical talking point\u201d despite many\u00a0stories citing such crimes<\/a>\u00a0as the reason for closing stories in various cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She questions the real basis for such moves and claims that \u201cin certain conservative circles, there\u2019s a wild narrative about cities as terrifying hellholes of crime, theft and lawlessness.<\/strong> The bleakness of the D.C. CVS played right into this belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real story, she suggests, are the economic conditions leading to shoplifting.<\/p>\n

Other journalists have made similar objections. New York Times writer (and now\u00a0Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones, has called upon journalists\u00a0stop covering shoplifting crimes<\/a>, even criticizing MSNBC\u2019s Al Sharpton for his discussion of a viral video of a man who recently stole steaks from a New York City Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Writers like Hannah-Jones believe that reporters should actively suppress or dismiss stories on such crime to frame public opinion. It is all part of\u00a0advocacy journalism<\/a>. You can almost attribute it the denial of reality in \u201ca late-journalism horror story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 03\/02\/2024 – 17:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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WaPo Reporter Mocks Shoplifting Stories As The “Panic” Of “A Sticky-Fingered Nation Built On Stolen Land” Authored by Jonathan Turley, Washington Post writer\u00a0Maura Judkis\u00a0is under…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}