Election Interference: Corporate Media Spread Disinformation That Violent Crime Is Falling

Posted • October 17, 2024: During the Trump-Harris debate, one of the moderator "fact-checks" on the Republican nominee (there were of course no fact-checks on the Democrat even though she told some whoppers) was when the subject of rising crime over the last few years came up. Smug ABC News moderator had this to say after Trump talked about rising crime: Flashback: ABC’s David Muir “fact checks” Trump during debate, falsely claims crime is down https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1846577339699748864/pu/vid/avc1/720x406/ySg_cJWDYhcKuiYq.mp4 -- Don't expect any corrections though from the media after what was reported this week: Last year, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initially issued its "final" nationwide crime data for 2022, the bureau reported that the country's violent crime rate decreased by 2.1 percent. Democrats quickly latched onto this purported percent change to counter Donald Trump's claims that crime is soaring under the Biden-Harris administration.

However, a year later, the FBI has "quietly revised" those numbers, according to a RealClearInvestigations report by crime watchdog Dr. John Lott, correcting the dataset to show that violent crime actually increased in 2022 by 4.5 percent. This means the FBI was way off. There's no way the press is going to admit this narrative assist for Harris and the Democrats was totally bogus. With that, Tom Elliott issued a challenge to all the usual suspects:

I invite the following people to either issue a correction or kindly admit they’re professional liars:

CNN’s @ddale8
CNN’s @Acosta
ABC’s @DavidMuir
CNN’s @abbydphillip
W.H.’s @PeteButtigieg
CNN’s @andersoncooper
CNN’s @jaketapper
CNN’s @VanJones68
MSNBC’s @SteveRattner
NYT’s @peterbakernyt
W.H.’s @PressSec
NBC’s @KenDilanianNBC
MSNBC’s @NicolleDWallace
MSNBC’s @JoeNBC
MSNBC’s @joyannreid
MSNBC’s @MaraGay
MSNBC’s @AliVelshi
MSNBC’s @mariahinojosaof
MSNBC’s @maddow

Great challenge! We're guessing all the people on that list won't do either one. (…)

• More at: Twitchy - Tom Elliott Has a Challenge for Dems and Media Who Pushed 'Crime Is Down' BS
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/10/17/tom-elliott-has-a-challenge-for-dems-and-media-who-pushed-crime-is-down-bs-n2402331