Yes. ABC news has just called armed militia members, some of whom pointed high-power rifles at Bureau of Land Management employees last year, ‘peaceful protesters’.
When ABC discussed unarmed #BLM protesters, they were ‘violent thugs*’ but these white gun-wavers armed to the teeth and threatening to “stay for years” — when an unarmed protest is lucky to last an evening without police violence — these are “peaceful protesters.
[UPDATE:305 pm — I cannot find an example so I am striking this — I may be conflating all mainstream media with CNN and FOX. Everything else remains the same.]
[UPDATE 5:53 pm courtesy of PeterHug] — * TV News Is Using The Word 'Thug' Way More Than You Think ]
According to new data from iQ media, the word "thug" was used a total of 54,671 times across Twitter, online news sites, television, and other social-media platforms from April 1 to May 4. More than half of those instances occurred on Twitter alone.
Looking at just the top TV broadcast networks, ABC has used the word more than any other network, with 2,523 mentions. That's almost 1,000 more than CBS, which ranked second at 1615 mentions. Fox and NBC followed behind, with 1,324 and 1,069 uses of the word, respectively.
Talk about Big Media turning reality on its head: Orwell would be pacing back and forth madly shouting “I told you so! I told you so!”