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Not Newsworthy: Black on White Torture-Rape-Murder

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Posted by Sneaze 2007-05-09 02:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Doubleplus ungood!

A more rational explanation might be found in the sober observation that murders - even decidedly horrific murders - are unfortunately too frequent an occurrence in the U.S. for all of them to garner national attention.

Racial hate crimes are always front-page national news. This one isn't. Why? Because it would force journalists to confront some very uncomfortable truths.

Posted by gromky 2007-05-09 07:54|| 2007-05-09 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The left's "fake but accurate" mantra in reverse. "True but inaccurate", nobody will get preferential hiring or tenure or an arts council grant for interpretive dance numbers expressing how this incident "silenced" them.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-09 09:05|| 2007-05-09 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I keep expecting that there is going to be one hell of a backlash to this stuff one day and that when it comes, it's going to be VERY ugly.

Posted by Mac 2007-05-09 09:29|| 2007-05-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Notice that Snopes dismisses the likelihood that all the major outlets conspired to ignore this.
Nobody said anything about "conspire". Snopes, knowing this, went ahead to pretend that something not asserted was not true.
The obvious goal is to whitewash the media.
In fact, you don't need a conspiracy if everybody thinks the same way, which is what the point about the coverage is.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2007-05-09 09:54|| 2007-05-09 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 A real "Inconvenient Truth"

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-05-09 17:10|| 2007-05-09 17:10|| Front Page Top

#6 In fact, you don't need a conspiracy if everybody thinks the same way, which is what the point about the coverage is.

The term the liberals have for that is 'institutionalized racism'. Of course, being liberals, they are exempted from ever being racists. It's just everybody else.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-09 17:13|| 2007-05-09 17:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Victims who elicit especial sympathy

Well, that certainly rules out two young kids with their entire lives before them being raped, tortured, mutilated and brutalized then murdered. Now if Al Sharpton had gotten a papercut, we'd be hearing about it 24-7. So, where are the black activists and their condemnation of such horrific brutality? Oh, that's right, their still stirring up rage over Don Imus.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-09 19:48|| 2007-05-09 19:48|| Front Page Top

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