In a new “Crowder Confronts” video, conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder follows up with a journalist who wrote a report containing key omissions and misleading claims about his encounter with a leftist who posted threatening comments directed against him online.
In response to threatening posts by a JuiceLand employee, who turned out to be transgender, Crowder went to his work to call him out in person. In the posts, the employee called on fellow activists to “slash his tires.” “He won’t be doing much ‘self entertaining’ when he’s calling and paying for a tow, four new tires, and thinking about never going out and making himself vulnerable again,” the employee wrote. “Stay in contact with me, I know the few people who really mean business around here. I worked with some on the Robert E Lee statue we had on campus. That was us.” Crowder filmed the encounter and posted a video of it.
The Austin Chronicle’s Jessi Cape reported on the incident in a piece titled “JuiceLand Employee Harassed by Right-Wing Comedian,” which describes Crowder as an “alt-right” internet personality and portrays him as acting in a threatening manner.
In his conversation with Cape, Crowder asks her to explain each of the inaccuracies and omissions in the piece, including her decision not to either link to or embed the video, labeling him as “alt-right” despite his consistent opposition to them, failing to note that the employee admitted to posting the threatening comments, and omitting Crowder’s repeated statements about non-violence. Crowder describes what she is doing as “activism” rather than “journalism,” which Cape emphatically rejects, repeatedly defending her characterization of the incident and decision to omit some information.
Near the end of the interview, Crowder summarized his problem with her approach to journalism.
“In the era of people freaking out about fake news, when people omit videos while writing an article exclusively about a video, omit facts that would be key details,…key witnesses in a court case, omit information, and also mislead the audience with information that’s selectively edited — for example reaching out to some generic line at CRTV, acting as though you’d reached out to me directly — I have a problem with this passing as ‘news.’ Because it’s not. It’s not news; it’s activism.”
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