The local TV news just doesn’t understand what they are covering.

Behind bars or in "revolutionary garb."

They like to repeat the same words that Tom Horne uses, for example when a person wears brown khakis and a beret, they are wearing “revolutionary garb.”

Yet how many times do the media refer to Junior ROTC high school students are dressed up as soldiers, as killing machines, as those ready to take orders to kill even if that means overthrowing a democratically elected leader in Latin America.

It’s all a matter of perception, and Chicano students are usually given the negative light even though what they are fighting for is education, books, and their classes.

I guess when Arizona is ranked last in education, fighting for education is a truly revolutionary concept, especially when it is our rulers attacking education, thus to fight for education is to revolt against Arizona government?

At this week’s School of Ethnic Studies, the media was shut out.

KGUN9 is complaining about this, and has been getting lots of comments in regard to this.

So to respond to their complaints and why Chicano students don’t trust the local media I include a recent clip of a MAS student who spoke to KGUN9 about why MAS should not be banned, and then how the ABC affiliate cut out most of what was said and only used a part that had nothing to do with the defense of the classes.

You can see that for yourself in the video above.

As for bias in the local media, consider this. How many negative editorials has the Arizona Daily Star written about TUSD superintendent and former Vice-President of SALC, Tucson’s club for the 1%, John Pedicone?

I do not think they have ever written anything negative about Pedicone, ever.

Media bias is huge in Tucson. The only coverage of the book ban was to defend TUSD’s position that books were not banned, only boxed up and not allowed in the classroom, and even with this Orwellian response, the local media lacked the critical thinking skills to follow-up with easy questions; “How is this NOT a book ban?” — “Will the teachers get in trouble if they teach out of these books?” etc…

The whole nation is watching Tucson right now, and in particular TUSD.

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