Posted on 08/21/2003 4:47:51 AM PDT by JesseHousman
A 13-year-old boy in Arkansas dies after a horrific sexual crime but much of the national media ignore the story. Conservative columnists and other critics think they know why — because the boy's accused killers are gay.
"[The media] doesn't want the public to think about homosexuality and pedophilia and torture and the murder of children," says Don Feder, a conservative columnist at the Boston Herald. The boy, Jesse Dirkhising, was bound, drugged, tortured and raped for five hours before he died in 1999.
Last month, a jury convicted Joshua Brown, 23, of rape and murder. Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole, the maximum sentence. Brown's lover, Davis Carpenter, 39, goes on trial next month.
But the case received little attention in the national media. Critics say that is evidence of pro-gay bias, noting that news organizations gave extensive coverage to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was hung on a fence post by two straight men and left to die.
Protesters outside Brown's trial in Bentonville, Ark. held signs that read, "Pro-Gay Media Shame." Conservative and anti-gay groups have made the same argument for months on their Web sites and in their publications.
Their argument was given more weight when it was embraced by one of the country's most provocative gay writers, Andrew Sullivan, in The New Republic.
Sullivan compared media coverage of the two cases, and found what he described as a "staggering" discrepancy. He concluded that the media "hyped" the Shepard case to build support for the inclusion of gays under federal hate crime protection, and ignored the Dirkhising case for fear of feeding anti-gay prejudice.
"I think there is clearly evidence that many in the media decided we're not going to go there because we know it will feed anti-gay prejudice," Sullivan told ABCNEWS.
Editors at the television networks and major newspapers have responded that they covered the Shepard crime because it was part of a national issue — hate crime legislation.
"For a crime story or a murder story, even a horrific and sad one like [that of] Jesse Dirkhising, to be covered by the national press, I think there has to be an issue of larger social significance attached to it," says Martha Moore, a media reporter for USA Today.
Editors say that while it may seem cold, countless rapes and murders — gay and straight — regularly go unreported in the national media because they are not part of a larger issue.
Editors also say that the horrific details of the Dirkhising case made it hard to report.
According to an account Brown gave police after his arrest, he and Carpenter had tied Dirkhising to a bed with duct tape as part of a "game." Then they gave Dirkhising an enema of urine that they had dosed with amitriptyline, an antidepressant and a sedative.
Jesse was gagged with a pair of dirty underwear while Brown raped the boy and Carpenter directed the scene, according to Brown's account. The boy died of suffocation, which Brown said was an accident.
Brown told police he was acting on instructions that Carpenter wrote and drew for him on a pad of paper. Prosecutors plan to use the notes and diagrams as evidence at Carpenter's trial.
Another charge prosecutors intend to make at Carpenter's trial is that the men were planning on other rapes. Prosecutors intend to to submit handwritten short stories that police found in Carpenter's apartment, which were explicit writings envisioning future rapes and tortures, mentioning one local girl by name.
Looks to me like he simply cut and pasted from a google search.
If the News Cartel covered a similar crime by a priest two words that will NEVER, EVER be in the story are "gay" and "homosexual".
When you see any "Catholic Church Scandals" stories from the presstitutes in the future look for those words.
Could it just be that black serial killers are less likely to be detected as serial killers? There are a number of black serial killers, from the Atlanta child killer, the Zebra killers in California, the Yahway group in Florida, and Mohammad and Malvo in the Beltway.
For the most part, though, with the number of black murders in the inner cities, it seems less likely that a pattern of killings might be detected
It wasn't ham-fisted, it was accurate.
Good point. I have noticed that the number of inner city murders have declined in the past few years.
Malvo, et al, will be factored into the statistics, of ocurse, because it involves a homosexual partnership.
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Just how personally familiar are you with that case?
Your pro-homosexual bias is even more clarified by your meaningless attempt to nit-pick.
Speaking of nit-pick, you gratutious slam at me as possessing a grade school mentality should create a vision in everyone's mind that you are breathlessly typing away like a demon-possessed robot who is searching any avenue to advance your pitiful thesis regarding homosexuals.
You have absolutely no credibility due to your repetitious responses to everyone on this thread. Due to that repetition, you expose yourself as a propagandist who no doubt jumps on any thread where the evils of homosexual behavior are presented and discussed.
There should be an outrage in the media no matter who committs these horrible acts. Cases such as this should not be dismissed. Yet the only place I read about this case is here at FR.
Many people shouldn’t be surprised that a boy who had to endure a nickname “Pissy” because of his tendency to wet his pants would grow up to be one of Americas most savage spree killers. And it certainly didn’t help that he would be sent to prison on a robbery charge and emerge two years later with a tendency to dress in women’s clothes and a desire for rough sex.
You know exactly what I mean and since we both know that, I am not going to waste any more time on you.
See ya later Bill Clinton.
I am a mostly conservative libertarian (more correctly, I'd say a classic liberal)"
A quote from your own profile sir which is very telling in itself. I have followed your posts on this thread with both amusement and bewilderment. It is clear that you have no agenda with homosexuals, it is conservatives whom you loathe and use the guise of any available agenda to provoke. The horrible perversions which have been perpetrated against children are as "hot topic" as an issue can get, and it is apparent from your replys to posters that you receive some type of "thrill" from provocation. What you may not realize is this type of "thrillseeking" is a type of perversion as well. About these sexual deviants you are defending, these people are not gay, homosexual, or otherwise, they are deviants of the highest order who gain thrill from the torture of others..sound familliar?
You might want to turn the mirror on yourself. You're doing a pretty good job of "breathlessly typing away like a demon-possessed robot". LOL!
We all know that really means: "I made a hasty statement that I can't defend, so I'm going to retreat now but claim a victory nonetheless."
Talk about Bill Clinton, indeed.
The fire-breathing, moral fascist, gratuitous gay-bashing brand of conservatives so often found here, yes.
About these sexual deviants you are defending
Try substantiating that accusation. I've never defended any sexual deviant. You're making purely reactionary comments without actually reading what I've written.
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