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And the overreporting of such crimes.
Basically you make as much news reports of every single notable crime committed by minorities, at any cost, even if it is cringe. Reports on every single politician who don't think it means "it's payback time", trying to connect the dots to other crime cases, and both meme and anniversary posting to keep it in the mind of the public for a long time. This is how "Roma crime" became a hot topic in Hungary, where overreporting of "Roma crimes" slowly disappeared once Fidesz won save for the openly nazi kuruc info webshite (which has ties to Florida republicans), and apparently originates from nazi Germany.
Yep. This is exactly why my grandparents think crimes exploding everywhere.
Cause theres constantly crime in the news.
and no amount of explaining "None of this crime is local to us, if crime was as bad as you think it was, they wouldnt have to report on a minor incident from across the country to have a crime to report on the local news", no amount of showing them falling crime rates, nothing, will convince them otherwise.
Cause they can only believe what they see and are told repeatedly, and the news..both local and national, is perfectly doing their part to make things seems worse than they are.
Its partly because of unnecessarily increased coverage... 3+ hours in the morning, an hour or more at lunch, then like 2+ hours at dinner, then again at 10pm.. and thats not even accounting for the 24 hour news channels, and the regular channels breaking into regular programming for increasingly banal shit.
and partly because they have a vested interest in strife and mayhem because theres no profit in a 24 hour news coverage where the every our on the hour, the only report is "And nothing of concern happened today."
Which is why they've bent over backwards sanewashing trump before the last election. a trump presidency is great for ratings because people turn in every day to see what new horror is being unleashed, and the media doesnt care how complicit they are in creating it.