Some Things Will Never Interest Mainstream Media

[_Bach]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... man-death/

But if you reverse the colors ---- they would kill a whole forest for print.

[_Tobin]

Black Lies Matter

[_Kevin Graham]

So the mainstream media won't cover it huh?

You mean like NBC or maybe ABC or maybe CBS or maybe you're suggesting Liberal sites would never mention it?

Gee, if only there were some way to know for sure!

If these were white women killing a black man, you and your Right Wing cult would be demanding that we wait for all the facts before getting upset. I mean, we've only heard one side of the story right?

Maybe you should stop relying on FOX and Breitfart for your selective "news" coverage about what the rest of the world is saying and thinking. It is interesting how you guys lap it up whenever these sites pour you your daily serving of racist fodder, yet if Obama dares to say a word about racism in the wake of racist police murders, you guys have conniption fits about how he is just being a racist himself and effectively "dividing the country."

[_subgenius]

So the mainstream media won't cover it huh?

You mean like NBC or maybe ABC or maybe CBS or maybe you're suggesting Liberal sites would never mention it?

Gee, if only there were some way to know for sure!

If these were white women killing a black man, you and your Right Wing cult would be demanding that we wait for all the facts before getting upset. I mean, we've only heard one side of the story right?

Maybe you should stop relying on FOX and Breitfart for your selective "news" coverage about what the rest of the world is saying and thinking. It is interesting how you guys lap it up whenever these sites pour you your daily serving of racist fodder, yet if Obama dares to say a word about racism in the wake of racist police murders, you guys have conniption fits about how he is just being a racist himself and effectively "dividing the country."

A news story getting mediocre coverage and only on the "local" affiliate is hardly counter to the OP assertion of "mainstream coverage".
If you took a moment to realize that you only knew about this story because of this thread and that you had to 'google' occurrences of it being reported, then it would become apparent to the bourbon bubbles in your brain that Obama was not publicly commenting on this story...that university students weren't forming safe spaces over this incident....that communities of white people weren't taking to the streets and robbing dollar stores and disrupting unassociated businesses just for fundraising attention.
People like you that pick and choose through crimes in order to promote a demographic agenda are exactly what keeps rich white democrats like Pelosi and Clinton happy.
Pour yourself another tall cool drink of liberal brain numbness, you've earned it.

[_Kevin Graham]

A news story getting mediocre coverage and only on the "local" affiliate is hardly counter to the OP assertion of "mainstream coverage".

Mediocre coverage as opposed to what? You expect it to be on everyone's frontpage for days and days or something? It got the same amount of coverage as the murder of a black man by two white women, so his insinuation that the "mainstream media" has a double standard is bogus. Also, FOX News didn't provide any further coverage beyond what the mainstream media did, so this also refutes his premise. They only reported on it in Novermber when the guy died, and all they did was cut and paste a short excerpt from the AP. ABC reported on it in the Spring when it happened and then again just a few days ago. All together they reported on it four times throughout the year. As did NBC.

So they reported on it in April when it happened, in September when the women were charged, in Novemrber when the victim died, and then last week when attorney's rejected a plea deal. But according to bach, they're just not interested in the story at all because... Breitbart say so?

If you took a moment to realize that you only knew about this story because of this thread

How would you know? I just provided coverage of it in every majore news outlet. LOL! But you should realize that the only reason you know about it is because the Right Wing blogosphere is making it viral lately. Just google the incident and you'll see it on virtually all the Right Wing blogs. They're absolutely infatuated with black on white crime, as it feeds and proves their racist premise.

you had to 'google' occurrences of it being reported

Of course I googled the links. I actually research claims and the results prove bach is an idiot who didn't know what the hell he was talking about. All you're doing now is trying to move the goal posts saying they didn't cover it enough or whatever, when what you're really saying is that they didn't cover it as much as Breitfart and Town Hall. Again, FOX news didn't give it any special attention and bach absolutely loves FOX. Maybe they're becoming too liberal for him now.

then it would become apparent to the bourbon bubbles in your brain that Obama was not publicly commenting on this story

Most people who finished High School understand that Obama comments on tragedies that are obvious race-based "hate crimes" that create outrage at the national level and usually involve policemen who are tax funded agents of local government. None of these things apply to this incident. It is just stupid to think he should comment every time someone was killed by someone of a different race. These things happen every day.

[_EAllusion]

Bach, while being an obvious a troll, is trading on a common idea in conservative media. There's a lot of coverage of instances in which blacks are victims of police brutality or racial injustice that has not been adequately addressed. Those stories exist at the cross-roads of two newsworthy ideas. The first is that police brutality is an extensive and systemic thing in the United States due to a real lack of accountability for the police. The second is that blacks are disproportionately a victim of unfair treatment at the hands of criminal justice system due to racial biases. Both of these things tug at people's basic values and seem to be readily correctable flaws in our society. The coverage of specific events when they snowball into mass-media stories are always because of this subtext.

The idea that any random murder is just as newsworthy as that is a fallacy. It comes from a place of not understanding what the stories are really about and a weirdly ironic belief in racial quotas for news stories. Think of a poster like ajax here. The thought process is simply racial defensiveness. White people killed some black guy? Oh yeah. Well, black people kill white people too! They do it even more! Why don't you cover that!

[_EAllusion]

One of the other types of stories that gets disproportionate coverage is when a pretty, young white girl is a missing person. Usually it's even more specifically that they are blonde and affluent. Social scientists have a name for this called "missing white woman syndrome."

But people go missing all the time. Like every single day. So why is it that only a tiny fraction of those missing person stories end up receiving massive media attention? And why is it that they are so clearly disproportionately biased towards pretty, young, white girls who are usually blonde and of means? There are formal studies on the racial disparities in the coverage and is so disproportionate that it's disturbing.

It's quite hard to explain that phenomenon without seeing it in part a consequence of implicit racial biases in the audience. People identify with and care more about the white girl as a damsel in distress.

So, on the one hand you have a few stories that have gained extreme national attention that are about racial injustice on-going in America that end up magnifying the coverage of some murders over others. This produces literally thousands upon thousands of words of protest in sources like Breitbart because it seems racially unfair to them. But wanting to cover the disproportionate victim-hood of blacks at the hands of the government seems like a laudable desire. On the other hand, we have a parallel phenomenon where the media simply does not care much at all about black missing children in comparison to whites (due to its audience). This isn't a consequence of some noble end, but rather is simply because people care more about white people. Good luck finding a word of complaint about this from those same sources.

What's wrong with this picture?

[_Kevin Graham]

Yes, Elizabeth Smart and JonBenét Ramsey come to mind. The news of these girls gone missing went nationwide in a matter of hours and everyone I knew was glued to the news coverage about them even after Ramsey was found dead and Smart was found alive.

I wonder why this girl got an insane amount of coverage for months during and after the investigation:


Whereas no one seems to know or care about the hundreds of black girls who go missing:



Media bias indeed.

[_EAllusion]

It's easy to make it about specific anecdotes, but I should point out that my links detail out missing white woman syndrome more systematically. It turns out that the disparities in coverage exist at every level of the media - from local to national - and also affect how missing persons stories are covered when they are. The disparities are also huge rather than a slight bias. That there is a disparity is not disputable. Why there is a disparity is more interesting.

The fact that Brietbart types don't care despite pretending to care about racial disparities in media coverage when it comes to their perception that some black murders get covered too much is my point here. They're a bunch of racists, is what I'm saying.

[_Gunnar]

One of the other types of stories that gets disproportionate coverage is when a pretty, young white girl is a missing person. Usually it's even more specifically that they are blonde and affluent. Social scientists have a name for this called "missing white woman syndrome."

But people go missing all the time. Like every single day. So why is it that only a tiny fraction of those missing person stories end up receiving massive media attention? And why is it that they are so clearly disproportionately biased towards pretty, young, white girls who are usually blonde and of means? There are formal studies on the racial disparities in the coverage and is so disproportionate that it's disturbing.

It's quite hard to explain that phenomenon without seeing it in part a consequence of implicit racial biases in the audience. People identify with and care more about the white girl as a damsel in distress.

So, on the one hand you have a few stories that have gained extreme national attention that are about racial injustice on-going in America that end up magnifying the coverage of some murders over others. This produces literally thousands upon thousands of words of protest in sources like Breitbart because it seems racially unfair to them. But wanting to cover the disproportionate victim-hood of blacks at the hands of the government seems like a laudable desire. On the other hand, we have a parallel phenomenon where the media simply does not care much at all about black missing children in comparison to whites (due to its audience). This isn't a consequence of some noble end, but rather is simply because people care more about white people. Good luck finding a word of complaint about this from those same sources.

What's wrong with this picture?

I think the picture is improving, though. In the area I live (near Sacramento, CA) I have often seen the same type of massive concern, sympathy, and news coverage and organized search efforts for missing black and Hispanic children as for pretty little white girls who wind up missing. Racism of all kinds is probably still more prevalent than it ought to be, but during my long life I have seen great improvement. I see a lot more mixed race groups of people hanging out together and enjoying each other as friends and equals than used to be the case when I was much younger.