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Black Lives Matter boomerang: How media flipped script on violent protests after Capitol riot | Just The News

By Thomas A. Smith

The violent intrusion into the Capitol was met with near-universal condemnation worldwide, including by virtually every media outlet, broadcaster and commentator. 

Yet the language on display from much of the media yesterday was a sharp departure from rhetoric deployed by journalists last summer at the height of the Black Lives Matter-led riots and violence that gripped the country intermittently for several months. 

via justthenews.com