The strapline on this video—“Everybody in America you don't like, gathered in one place”—is poor journalism, and I think it violates the basic principles of TK News. If I’m reading this strapline correctly, it taints, even undermines, the great journalism of the video itself. Was this strapline meant as clickbait? Was it supposed to prep me to feel cringe for all the "idiots" outside the courthouse? Because, instead, except for a few exceptions, I was heartened by the mostly peaceful humanity of it all. I saw real people exercising their rights to speak and assemble. I even saw cops trying at least to de-escalate a potential pressure-cooker situation. It was almost like a textbook example of “The System” actually working, something I usually don’t even believe is possible.

I wish the journalism of the legacy media was half as good as this video in fairly portraying the many sides and opinions in the Rittenhouse case. I wish this was standard reporting on CNN and NBC News. But this strapline makes me realize (and worry) that those of us who are enthusiastic followers of TK News, and of Glenn Greenwald, and of the Grey Zone, and the Jimmy Dore Show, etc.—that we are in our own potentially flawed bubble, and that we are just as likely as any other group of humans to become holier-than-thou, pearl-clutching deranged tribalists who think we’re better than all the propagandized sheeple who disagree with us.

Hopefully, I'm just misreading or misunderstanding that strapline, but if not, then perhaps we're all due for a little self-critique.