Newsom/Christian Murders - News Silence

[TheRightWing]

I hadn't heard about this story until a few days ago when a friend sent me this link:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp

After reading the horrendous details of the story I just couldn't believe something like this could happen. I actually thought the story was a fake because I had not heard of it on any mainstream media outlet.

After checking though, finding more news stories online about it, it got me wondering how could such a heinous crime go unreported by the mainstream media?

Why does The Duke Rape Case, where 1 black woman alleges rape gets covered non-stop 24/7, even though the case from the beginning was highly suspect. Why does Imus making a racist remark gets 24/7 coverage? Why is it that Newsom/Christian get brutally murdered and no national coverage?

Finally yesterday it got a small blurb on Fox News. Why? Because Charlie Daniels (that's right the country singer), helped to bring this case some attention.

White people have become afraid to express a strong opinion when it comes to Black/White violence or any other issue involving black people because they don't want to get labelled a "racist" by a politically correct society gone mad.

Black on Black violence, hardly gets reported because there's no angle for the media to play there, but have a white person so much as insult a black person and all media hell breaks loose.

A lesson should be taken from this case, wrong is wrong, and not covering a story like this because you're too scared to stir the embers of race relations just adds to the problem. You can't look the other way, you can't pretend this isn't happening, you have to deal with these problems.

Was this a race incident? I'm not sure. I don't know enough about the case to say that race had any motivation in the crime. However, race definitely played a part in the lack of coverage this story got.

[Linkster]

Because this happens every day in the US - and in most cases the murders are way more gruesome than even this case - and the media only cares about certain aspects that will sell advertising - obviously this one didnt have the needed elements

[TheRightWing]

Because this happens every day in the US - and in most cases the murders are way more gruesome than even this case - and the media only cares about certain aspects that will sell advertising - obviously this one didnt have the needed elements

What was the last Black on White violence reported on a major news outlet? O.J. Simpson? The only reason that got covered was the celebrity angle. The media can't be that myopic when it's accessing what stories get coverage and what stories don't.

While ratings may be part of the answer, there is this mentality that white people have become scared to point out any flaw in the black community, even if they're talking about murders, rapists, criminals, they still fear speaking frankly on topics because we've become too damn politically correct.

[Mr. Blue]

Because this happens every day in the US - and in most cases the murders are way more gruesome than even this case - and the media only cares about certain aspects that will sell advertising - obviously this one didnt have the needed elements

That's pretty much what it is. I mean that's why pretty white girls that go missing and have an ugly husband gets so much news coverage. I remember when they did the runaway bride thing, I took one look at her picture and said, "She's got crazy eyes, I bet she's alive"...to which my wife responded, "You're wrong, just look at her fiance, he's obviously a murderer."

Umm, yeah. So goes media coverage in America. However, unrelated to this story, it's trouble what the 24/7 news station chooses to focus on...Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Brittany Spears...it's like the masses are following Nero's motto of fiddling while Rome burns.

So many important issues have taken a backseat to infotainment. It's getting harder and harder to find meaningful news that's not so biased you have to cross check every aspect of a story to get the real story.