‘Say his name’: Tribute trends for 5-yr-old boy ‘executed’ in cold blood after infuriating media blackout

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To the mainstream media figures who jump through hoops daily to defend and heroize thugs, rioters, looters, armed robbers and even mass-murdering terrorists, it’s as if deceased 5-year-old North Carolina boy Cannon Hinnant never even existed.

Hinnant, who was white, died Sunday after a black neighbor known to his family shot him at point-blank range in front of his two sisters, ages 8 and 7.

The suspected gunman, 25-year-old Darius Nathaniel Sessoms, was taken into custody the following day and charged with first-degree murder.

As of Thursday, it’d been four days since Hinnant’s murder, yet not a word about him had been written by anyone in the mainstream press, save for those at Fox News.

And according to a growing mass of Americans on social media, the mainstream media’s abject refusal to utter Hinnant’s name was patently unacceptable.

Look:

So why are the media ignoring Hinnant’s death? If asked, media reporters like CNN’s Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy might possibly argue that his death is a local matter and that “right-wingers” are trying to make it a national one for political purposes.

But the facts show that left-wing media outlets from The Washington Post to CNN have no qualms about running local stories when it suits them.

Case in point: On August 4th, CNN ran a story about a Pennsylvania man who’d opened fire on a cigar shop employee after being asked to wear a mask. Unlike with Hinnant’s shooting, the one in Pennsylvania resulted in no deaths.

The same day, The New York Times ran a story about a shooting that occurred at “a large gathering in violation of coronavirus restrictions at a multimillion-dollar hillside home near Beverly Hills.” The shooting resulted in one death.

The link between these two particular stories appears to be the mainstream media’s documented disdain for anybody who violates coronavirus restrictions pertaining to masks and social distancing.

Nine days later, The Washington Post ran a fairly extensive story about a 10-year-old girl who’d witnessed her Hispanic mother’s murder while she was on a school Zoom call. You know who else witnessed a murder recently? Hinnant’s white sisters.

Hmm …

None of this is to suggest that the mainstream media are obliged to cover every local story. That would be virtually impossible. Given the loud outcry over Hinnant’s death, however, there seems to be more than enough justification for them to make an exception just like they did with the three cases outlined above. Yet they won’t. Why?

Is it because of Hinnant’s race? Is it because most of the people outraged over the lack of coverage seem to lean to the right politically? Or is it just because they’re too busy obsessively attacking President Donald Trump to care about a dead child?

Either way, it’d be nice to know the answer …

R.I.P. Cannon Hinnant, #SayHisName

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