Blue Lives Matter Analysis

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The media isn’t always right. I can be argued and discussed that the media just tries to get “their” story out there before anybody else. It doesn’t matter if they have the right story or not it's just about who can get it out to the public first. On the issue of “Blue Lives Matter” the media will mostly make it out to seem that the cops are always the bad guys and the troubled citizens we should feel sorry for. It is a race. A race for the media to get their side of the story out first. We as people of the United States of America are gullible. Gullible in a way that what we hear first is what we believe. In our generation we have created this perception of understanding misinformation first before getting all of your facts down.
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