{"id":113,"date":"2018-10-11T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petermcunningham.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-10-11T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:05:53","slug":"what-a-difference-a-little-perspective-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petermcunningham.com\/blog\/what-a-difference-a-little-perspective-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a little perspective makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case study in the phenomenon of &#8220;fake news&#8221; (or in any case, our inability to arrive at anything like an objective set of facts):<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday in Portland, Oregon activists marched through the streets in protest of the police killing of a black man named Patrick Kimmons. At one point, a silver Lexus drove through part of the crowd, members of which began running beside the car and hitting it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/driver-plows-through-protesters-in-downtown-portland\">from local KATU News<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/embed\/news\/local\/driver-plows-through-protesters-in-downtown-portland?external-id=7ec37fbcca1f4d318dd997ec10e99fcf\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the same incident from the other side, behind the car as it drives into the crowd, shared by right-wing Facebook group Populist Wire:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPopulistWire%2Fvideos%2F477314176089325%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And here is video of an elderly man who didn\u2019t heed Antifa street orders \u2014 so they chased him down.\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/portland?source=feed_text&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCdtiHJRj-hjOEVWpeZFfHBnm-0kHkbiKhyra9Lr_6wSQCAc28VBaf-QyIcKN83SZn6S97VtxI5D73pf2tnxc6RgO8dG1GVgDjrpZFgBUDB52rWdYzZ_xXIVbp5TnBwXF1ZXYC06qSWIpZrXglCvOl1h88iZ3bvkr6J_rl8dO144xyOYGjLR_I&amp;__tn__=%2ANKH-R\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">Portland<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each video presents the event completely differently. In one, a car drives into a crowd of people, who knock on the side of the car in a panic, urging him to stop. In the other, an innocent driver is surrounded and attacked by an unruly mob as he drives past. Yet each video is an objective document. One&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NOTE: I STARTED WRITING THIS BLOG POST LATE LAST NIGHT AFTER A LONG, CONTENTIOUS FACEBOOK THREAD. I STOPPED, FIGURING I&#8217;D FINISH IT WITH A FRESHER HEAD TODAY. WELL, I DON&#8217;T WANT TO FINISH IT TODAY. AND I THINK YOU ALL PROBABLY GET THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE. TRUTH, SUBJECTIVITY, THE CORROSIVE NATURE OF OUR UNIQUELY PARTISAN TIME. YOU GET IT. ANYWAY, HAVE A GOOD ONE. 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