Establishment media outlets have so often beclowned themselves by exposing their own biases that nothing they do surprises us.
Moreover, sometimes those biases manifest in unconscious ways, and this appears to be one such case.
On Friday, amid substantial backlash against its unfathomable callousness, MSNBC quietly inserted a new headline for a story about Wednesday’s courtroom conviction of Jose Antonio Ibarra — the Venezuelan illegal immigrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February — in place of the story’s original headline, which one social media user denounced as “absolutely sickening.”
MSNBC’s updated headline read: “The Guilt of Laken Riley’s Killer Was Never In Doubt.” No reasonable person could object to that statement.
Alas, MSNBC first ran the story under the following tone-deaf headline: “Laken Riley’s Killer Never Stood a Chance.”
On the social media platform X, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump reacted to that original headline with outrage. Trump, of course, has pledged to close the open border facilitated by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“You literally can’t make up this level of depravity. These people are sick,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, referring to the establishment shills at MSNBC.
You literally can’t make