Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Critics say news media ignoring Knoxville couple slaying
AP ^ | May 18, 2007

Posted on 05/18/2007 7:03:31 AM PDT by eyedigress

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Bloggers and media critics are complaining that the national media has ignored the rape and murder of a young Knoxville couple because of the racial implications of the story.

Channon Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23, were raped, tortured and killed in January. Separate trial dates were set Thursday for four people charged in the slayings.

Online critics have angrily insisted that reporters are ignoring the story because the victims are white and the defendants are black.

"I am not going to call it reverse racism," said country singer Charlie Daniels, who has written on his Web page about how little he has heard of the case in Nashville, about 150 miles west of Knoxville. "But I will say it is very selective (journalism).

(Excerpt) Read more at wmcstations.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: carjack; christian; christiannewsom; gangrape; hatecrime; knoxville; newsom; racism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-43 next last
This story is receiveing very little press. Where are Greta, Paula, Nancy, And Jerry Rivers at on this one.

For more on the details.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835327/posts

1 posted on 05/18/2007 7:03:34 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

The media is suppressing this story.

We live in an age of stunning double standards.


2 posted on 05/18/2007 7:11:42 AM PDT by AIM-54
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

Why should the media cover this? After all, this is a real story. AKA boring

The media only wants to cover and promote sensational fake stories. That’s where the real money is.

Nation guard memos, Duke LAX, Global Warming, etc...

Fiction has a much better bottom line.


3 posted on 05/18/2007 7:13:40 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress
"But I can't say that this one would have had any more coverage if five whites had been accused of doing these things to two blacks, absent a blatant racial motive," he said. "As bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other 'angle' might also explain the lack of coverage."

Next delusion, please.

4 posted on 05/18/2007 7:16:35 AM PDT by freespirited
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AIM-54; HEY4QDEMS

5 posted on 05/18/2007 7:17:24 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

The national media *is* purposefully ignoring this case, but it’s not reverse-racism. It’s racism.

Fletcher J


6 posted on 05/18/2007 7:17:45 AM PDT by Fletcher J
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AIM-54

‘Stunning’ is referenced to double standards in society is like expressing gas mileage for vehicles in micro liters per angstrom.


7 posted on 05/18/2007 7:19:14 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: freespirited
the apparent absence of any interest group

Oh..Like a LaCrosse team maybe.

8 posted on 05/18/2007 7:19:23 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

Happily Bill Hemmer just ran a segment on this on FOX news.


9 posted on 05/18/2007 7:20:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
More details:

"proceeded to sodomize Chris Newsom in front of Channon before they emasculated him and shot him in the head. He was then “bound and his body wrapped up in bedding and set afire,” prior to being “discarded like trash along nearby railroad tracks.”

According to Vanessa Coleman, after they tired of torturing and raping Channon, the men urinated on her, and poured “cleaning chemicals” into her mouth and down her throat in an effort to destroy the physical evidence they had left behind. They then inexplicably cut off her breasts, dismembered her body and threw it in a trash can at the residence.



This story merits national attention.

10 posted on 05/18/2007 7:22:18 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

I think it’s pretty obvious why.
The media want everyone to think that whites are racist, and that they murder, rape and plunder non-whites.
When an incident happens that conflicts with their agenda, they suppress it.


11 posted on 05/18/2007 7:22:33 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (free press: not anymore, now that the left is in c ontrol)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress
"Ted Gest, president of the Criminal Justice Journalists group, a national organization of journalists who cover crime, court and prison beats, said interracial crime tends to get more coverage than when the criminal and victim are of the same race."

Note this brilliant journalist. Interracial crime...criminal and victim are of the same race. Hmmmm, his own statement underscores his stupidity and, of course, hypocrisy.

12 posted on 05/18/2007 7:22:38 AM PDT by magoo70804
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

Just like the Charles-Rust Tierney case (ACLU president with child torture porn - what, you didn’t hear about that?), the media does not report it because it does nothing good for their agenda.


13 posted on 05/18/2007 7:25:46 AM PDT by M203M4 (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

The DBM with it’s “selective” journalism is driving the growth of forums such as FR. We tell the truth here.


14 posted on 05/18/2007 7:27:39 AM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress

This is true evil. The media don’t want you to believe there is true evil in the world. These scum should be hung today.


15 posted on 05/18/2007 7:27:51 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

I don’t have access to TV right now, but thankfully at least one national outlet covered it. If only these beasts had been on a LaCrosse team.


16 posted on 05/18/2007 7:30:10 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: eyedigress
This story merits national attention.

Condolences to Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian's family and friends.

Sheesh

17 posted on 05/18/2007 7:31:16 AM PDT by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

Comment #18 Removed by Moderator

To: eyedigress

No biggie. The DBM was able to ignore a similar story in 2001 in Wichita, Kansas. The only big difference in the stories is that the Wichita incident had more than two victims.


19 posted on 05/18/2007 7:36:28 AM PDT by Free State Four
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Eric DeWayne E Boyd
Lamaricus "Slim" Davidson
George "Detroit" Thomas
Letalvis "Rome" Cobbins
Vanessa Lynn Coleman
20 posted on 05/18/2007 7:39:34 AM PDT by eyedigress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson