For several days, the story of the horrific "Ku Klux Klan Plaque" at West Point's engineering building has been told and retold by the propagandists of our national media outlets. The linked example is ABC's effort, and may or may not undergo corrections as they begin to review reader comments.
The writer has included with the article an extreme enlargement of a small cameo, which, if presented in context would appear as a figure a few inches in size, on the lower left border of the central panel of three (3) large, eleven-by-five-foot bronze panels making up the overall bronze work under attack. Generally, the three panels depict many historical figures and scenes of the period known as the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War.
Of course, the writer does not present the image in context, and does not disclose its minor scale and peripheral location in the overall work, but suggests it is the major subject of the work, and expressly refers to the overall work as a "KKK plaque" and "a plaque dedicated to the Ku Klux Klan." This is essentially a misrepresentation, as intentional as it is extensive, and borders upon complete fabrication.
The reason the media and its legion of unicorn riders find themselves unable to discredit blatant lies promulgated by political figures is that they do exactly this same sort of thing themselves, having no concept of accuracy, honesty, standards or ethics. This is one of the more recent examples, and would, at one time, have resulted in things like corrections, retractions and the separation from staff of unethical writers and editors. But, no more. They are what they are, and woe to any member of the public who counts on these weasels to "inform" him.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/panel-calls-removal-kkk-plaque-west-point-military/story?id=89162994
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