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This is appalling (but knowing the Jewish Press, not particularly shocking) https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/08/identifying-capitol-january-6-479757?fbclid=IwAR3H1grGvV_2VwqFBmqmrnW_p2-vV17_Ucbi6UhH6sfGbCVB5b_AGR2-5jg
The Jewish Press is not the only New York Jewish paper to get into hot water in connection with the Capital Riot https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/nyc-jewish-newspaper-stirs-outrage-with-photo-glorifying-capitol-riots-655246
But it must be said that these two incidents are not representative of the American Jewish press in general. Far from it.
But it is definitely representative of a certain tendency toward extremism among right-wing orthodox and ultra-orthodox publications https://twitter.com/SamuelSokol/status/1379755458907496448?s=20
I'd be very interested in the views of @FinkelmanYoel and @alanabbey who are the experts on American Jewish media (I highly recommend @FinkelmanYoel's book Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy https://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Kosher-Reading-Contemporary-Post-Modern/dp/1618110020
And while I know that I've shared this piece a lot, I'm gonna share it again because it discusses the commonalities between Trumpist and Orthodox views of the news media and it feels like it's relevant to this issue https://www.cjr.org/first_person/trump-jerusalem.php
I quoted both @alanabbey and @FinkelmanYoel in the article in the preceding tweet and, as always, it's worth listening to what they have to say
And speaking of orthodoxy, Trumpism and the media, I'm also gonna share this piece again about how I quit my synagogue over attacks on the media https://www.jta.org/2018/11/26/israel/im-reporter-left-synagogue-attacks-media
