Clarification?

It’s interesting that the only photo accompanying a story about arrests at a 30-member strong neo nazi demonstration in Florida, featured on drudgereport.com Sunday, was of anarchists being arrested. Of the 17 arrested, the vast majority were likely anarchists, who were part of a counter-demonstration of about 500 (including spectators), according to the story. however, no art was shown that depicted the protestors, the reason why the anarchists were there in the first place.

In general, Anarchists are some of the most fervent anti-racists in the U.S. and are the natural enemies of fascists going back at least a century. They see racism as a product of capitalism, part and parcel of an economic order that sacrifices the needs of the whole in favor of a group of elites.

Police usually show little restraint arresting anarchists, maybe because anarchists are openly antagonistic toward law enforcement and generally resist, so it can be an interesting spectacle, and therefore newsworthy. But if there is art accompanying a story about a neo-nazi march, I want to see a picture of the nazis. It may have been an editorial decision to not agitate viewers. After all, nazis are offensive, but come on, news organizations don’t get to decide not a show a picture of newsmakers because they are full of shit.

Drudge has a fetish for showing lefty types behaving badly. He likes to rile up the base. And the link is to a Florida television station, which if I’m not mistaken, has a fetish of its own for the bizarre and incendiary, and is one of Drudge’s favorites. If the accompanying art had been a group of counter-protestors, or khaki-clad national socialists from Minnesota, I wonder if Drudge would have ran it.

Source: WFTV.com

http://www.wftv.com/news/7442292/detail.html