Got Them Misleading News Blues

Being at the Breonna Taylor protests in 2020, seeing just how different what I saw and experienced was from what got reported in the media, was the primary motivation behind shifting my focus to doing photojournalism. Funny that, who decides to take up a dying profession? In the years since, I've covered many goings-on as I worked on building up my journalism skills, often things the legacy media has declined to cover.

The Saturday before last, local groups put on a series of panel discussions in Smoketown under the title 'Money For People's Needs Not The War Machine.' Was mildly surprised to find one of the local TV stations, WLKY, there covering the event as well. They stuck around for the first of three panel discussions and then left, after sticking around and shooting the other two as well I returned home to discover that WLKY was reporting the event as a protest