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What does the race of any of the people involved have to do with anything?

The race of the people involved has nothing to do with the case. But it does have a lot to do with how the MSM covers the case. And that has a lot to do with how liberals and conservatives see it - see the bias or favoritism. As an earlier poster mentioned - stories where a white person is the victim of blacks tend not to be covered. That's wrong.

I have a theory on this... Years ago most newspapers didn't cover the civil rights movement - didn't cover it when it was happening. There were papers in the South that just ignored the issue. Some papers didn't have one black writer - just like now there are papers that don't have one conservative writer.

The civil rights movement of the early 60's was as popular as the Tea Party Movement is today. And got just as much coverage. In other words - not much. I heard MLK give his "I have a Dream" speech in Chicago - 1964 - he had changed the speech from the one he had given in Washington a few months earlier and the speech was amazing. He took the one part about 'the dream' and expanded it to about a 90 minute speech. It was the most beautiful speech I've ever heard. People around me were crying as he spoke. I was crying too. The paper didn't do crap with it... and that was in the North. In the South, things of historical importance with civil rights would happen - and zip, nada - nothing in the papers. Ok, I'm getting off track here...

I think what's happened is so many 'journalists' missed the civil rights movement when it was happening, that they started jumping on any slight years later to prove their bonifides. Too late - they were jumping the shark. Some story about upper class black women and some tony country club - truth is, they should have been there when the civil rights movement really needed them - when the real stuff was happening - not years jumping on slights. Guilty consciences.... Not pretty.

So like most guilt ridden, they go overboard with one sided reporting in the other direction. And as is usually the case, the pendulum swings too far. The correct way ( if the MSM acted like adults rather than like members of a high school clique) would be to put in their Style Books ways that crime is dealt with - regardless of race.

In the sixties the MSM was worse to blacks - now they're worse to whites. It's stupid. Create a standard - "THIS" is covered - white, black, Asian... and this level of crime is NOT covered etc. Keep it consistent and they'd get some respect back. That might be too obvious for the elites of the MSM...