I’m in the middle of writing a book review of the most stunning new book — Jolyon Mitchell’s Media Violence and Christian Ethics. At one point he is talking about a sermon that Jeremiah Wright preached (the sermon which includes the now famous soundbite about “chickens coming home to roost”), as well as some other sermons preached around the time of 9/11 (93):

In this context, the prophetic reframing found in many sermons provides alternative reads of what was not articulated initially in the mainstream media. This could be described more technically as transgressive interpretations in local alternative public settings.

I can’t help being struck by how accurate Mitchell’s own words were, given how quickly the MSM moved to identify the transgressive nature of that speech when it reached beyond the “local” and “alternative” location where it was sourced.

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