Regardless on where you stand on verdicts, it's a little odd that the Rittenhouse trial has recieved so much more attention than the trial focused on the Arbery shooting.
If the media are so focused on the Ibram X Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Nikole Hanna-Jones, MSNBC narrative that the USA is irredeemably racist, it seems that the image of three armed white guys in a pick-up truck in a southern town brandishing guns and killing an unarmed black man would fit the narrative better than a white kid shooting three white men who were attacking him. Well, you'd think.
Yes, this is a conspiracy theory and I'm making assumptions; but, hear me out.
I think that this is going to be, in retrospect at some point, the case that shows that the mainstream media decided to test its power and influence. I think the media saw both the Rittenhouse and Arbery cases the same way I did - Rittenhouse is innocent and the McMichaels are guilty.
The problem is that if and when the McMichaels are found guilty, as I believe they will be and should be, that hurts the media narrative. Even if there were three racist, murdering assholes in the state of Georgia, the system still will bring them to justice and punish them for their actions. The media can't put that front and center.
On the other side they had Rittenhouse. Yeah, Ana Kasparian claimed that she hadn't seen the video evidence and didn't know that Rittenhouse was being chased by Rosenbaum; but, I don't believe her for a second. She knew and she lied. The majority of the mainstream media knew and lied. They lied because they knew Rittenhouse was innocent; but, if people bought the lies (which at least half of you have) it would fit the media narrative if Rittenhouse were found to be not guilty (as he correctly was). There are people who are still insisting that Rittenhouse killed three black people. There are people who still believe Joe Scarborough that Rittenhouse fired sixty shots indiscriminately into a crowd of peaceful protesters. If they can get you to buy the lies and get a not guilty verdict, that feeds the narrative.
I think the mainstream media are testing how far they can go to lie to support an agenda. I just hope the media are held sufficiently accountable in civil court.