The Mainstream Media's credibility has been on the wane for over forty years, from its slipshod coverage of the Vietnam War and Watergate onward. Outlets exposing the Mainstream Media and its lack of credibility did exist then but were heavily outnumbered, a situation that isn't quite the case today with many alternative sources of information.
The latest example of dishonest Mainstream Media is Dateline NBC and its "sting" attempt at the Virginia 500 at Martinsville. It sent decoy Muslims (they were Sikhs, the closest they could get to "actual" Muslims) with hidden cameras into the crowd to see if anyone would speak ill of them. They went looking for anti-Muslim bigotry, in short. Alas, they couldn't find any.
The reason for this story is the prejudice against non-minorities that exists in the MSM. NASCAR Nation is stereotyped as a "race of rednecks," as if anyone even knows what the word means. Dateline calls it a legitimate story to find anti-Muslim sentiment, thus exposing the manipulative mindset behind its prejudices.
The problem is that the legitimate story is not anti-Muslim sentiment, but Muslims, and in the context of this story, particularly American Muslims. There has been talk of anti-Muslim sentiment, but it is Muslims who should be taken to task, not NASCAR fans.
What has the Muslim community done? What has it done about its own prejudices? What has it done about antisemitism? What has it done about the issue of Islamo-Arab imperialism? What has it done to help improve the lot of its own people? This story shows the problems that exist with the Muslim community in the US.
American Muslims overall seem to have done quite well for themselves and integrated into America. But issues such as these deserve greater attention than bogus "stings" against NASCAR fans.
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