The Blaze.
Journalistic integrity at its finest.
The blaze tried to mike brown you too?
Haha!
No, I'm just not high on blogspam (on either side) that takes a story and repackages it into inflammatory material to feed a particular base's rigid mindset. The Blaze is certainly one of those. The left has their share of them too. They're just obnoxious articles that add very little, if any, value to what are important conversations.
There was a time when the news was about informing people, now its just about marketing and clicking on ads. The news outlets will print anything to get you to look.
I agree. Media is a business, and the purpose of owning a business is to make money. Any cable media is no longer in the business of reporting news, but spinning news to press their viewers' preconceived rage points. Then there is another step to the extreme in websites like The Blaze that really whore themselves out to get you to click that link. You can tell how much integrity one of these 'news' sites has by how often they use subjective adjectives in their headlines. For example, "Absolutely Disgusting" might be something that appears in a headline about the behavior of a black shopper to get conservative minded folks to click through and see for themselves just how disgusting some people are. (See the previous Blaze link if you want to see for yourself!)
The problem is these headlines work. They make a ton of money. That's why there's so many of them.
And that is why we have a brain and sort out or believe what we want and reject what we do not want. I would copy paste a few lines and and always give credit by adding a link to the original source where I saw that information. In this case you could bypass the blaze and just watch the video while getting some context. Then not trusting the blaze you could google/duck duck go/ bling that youtube video and read the behind the scene of that video. Maybe there was an personal history between the cop and the dude on the video being "mike browned", before.
Obviously most people do not care and are too lazy to do too much research and prefer to trust the main stream media, the one that makes the most money with the most advertising. That is their choice and is perfectly acceptable too
If people were interested in unbiased information, something like The Blaze wouldn't exist. People don't want that though. They want pieces that make them feel superior to groups they view as inferior, so they can post them wherever and rant about how terrible some groups are for doing or thinking [insert racial or political stereotype here]. The Blaze is worst than most because it foments division and hatred by playing on racial undertones, otherwise there'd by no reason to point out the race of people they're writing about in the headlines. 'Check out the disgusting way this black shopper acted around this cop' or whatever the headline was. The point isn't that some guy was disrespectful to a cop, it's that he's black and he's acting in a way you should hate. The headline tells you that much.
My question is, if you know a site is a disgraceful click monger and their presentation of information is so biased and serves no legitimate news function, why do you post them? Even if, as you say, people have brains and can decide for themselves if a source is worthy? If you're posting it and saying 'Decide for yourself if this is relevant information,' then it just looks like you're posting things you agree approve of. And in the case of this specific Blaze story, the story trying to appeal to people on the basis of 'look at this ridiculous black guy' is what's disgusting.