Maybe it has more to do with the spot in the chain and what they’re slinging?
It’s this and just that people from all walks of life use drugs.
Rich people will have rich drug dealers and poor people will have poor drug dealers. It’s not any more complicated than that.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That makes sense, but the media doesn’t want to glorify the good side of making money off of it, so they don’t show that side.
Both sides exist, but one is shown vastly more on the media than the others.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I mean, sort of? The entire show Weeds was about an affluent, classy woman selling weed, and that show is pretty old by now.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sorry not media, news, you don’t see many rich people on the news being busted or their drug dens being shown. Theres definitely media bias and that’s what OP was kinda asking about.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Now that I 100% agree with. News absolutely minimizes cases against the affluent or connected.
Now occasionally we do get news about it, but the outcome it always something like this:
kqed.org/…/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-o…
She got busted buying and selling fentanyl, tried to blame it on her housekeeper, and has had over a year of walking free to fight it.
The news media doesn’t spend as much time focusing on cases like these because they don’t like people having to see how anyone with money or connections can just pay to endlessly appeal and then walk away with a weak ass plea bargain and a slap on the wrist.
The reason they don’t show it is they don’t want poor people wising up to how fucking different the legal system is for them versus the rich and/or connected.