Call it “omission journalism.”
On June 14th, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran this headline: “More than 1 million sign petition to designate KKK as terrorist group.”
The AJC story said, in part, this:
“More than 1 million people have signed an online petition calling for the government to designate the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization.
The “Change KKK status into Terrorist Organization” campaign is one of at least three petitions that have gone viral on the change.org website since George Floyd’s death, according to Newsweek.”
The heading of the next section of the story reads: “A history of terror”
Then the piece, bylined by ArLuther Lee, goes into a curious description of the Klan. It accurately discusses the Klan’s history of terrorizing black Americans.
Then it says: