In places with media blackouts of racial violence news, the Internet is about the only way around the problem.
However, there seems to be a parallel problem that has proven almost intractable in such places. As someone noted long ago, New York no longer has a local newspaper at all.
As many times as this has been pointed out to the New York newspapers, they utterly ignore it, and as such, prevent New Yorkers from knowing what is happening just one block away.
Instead their papers love to focus on things like the increasingly small number of “cocktail party circuit celebrities”, that truthfully most New Yorkers are indifferent to. And they bitterly resent the fact that other New Yorkers don’t give a hoot about such people.
The very idea of having a crime section in the newspaper would horrify them. They would deny reality, and insist that such information is inherently racist, because so are the majority of criminals. A paradox for them.
If not for anyone else.
Crime reporting like this:
The Irving Police Department is currently investigating an aggravated robbery that occurred at 9:50 a.m., Aug. 13, in the 1300 block of N. Belt Line Rd. The suspect entered the business with a dark colored bandana covering his face and pointed a revolver at the clerks while demanding money. The business has ballistic glass and other security features; therefore, the clerks hid behind the counter and did not acknowledge the suspect. Once the suspect recognized that he could not get to the clerks, he tried pointing the gun through one of the small openings in the window. When that did not work, he eventually realized that there was no way to get to the clerks or the money so he ran away. As he was leaving the business, he removed the bandana allowing a surveillance camera to obtain a photo
video on the IPD Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=211115485717900
The NY Post is still reliable for local news.