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Racially Charged Murder Trials Getting Scant National Press
CNSNews.com ^ | May 18, 2007 | Randy Hall

Posted on 05/18/2007 1:07:46 PM PDT by FeeinTennessee

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The brutality of this crime leaves me speechless. The perpetrators should pay! And it's a shame the national media hasn't picked up on this.
1 posted on 05/18/2007 1:07:50 PM PDT by FeeinTennessee
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This story just doesn’t fit their agenda. Sad but true.


2 posted on 05/18/2007 1:12:43 PM PDT by bdog2995
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“the high incidence of black male incarceration is a function of society’s racism”

NO. It’s because black males are commiting more crimes per capita, NOTHING ELSE!


3 posted on 05/18/2007 1:12:44 PM PDT by hophead
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To: FeeinTennessee

Didn’t you hear? White referees call more fouls on Black NBA players than they call on White players.


4 posted on 05/18/2007 1:13:18 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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“Racially Charged Murder Trials Getting Scant National Press”

These trials will never, ever get national press attention — th evictims were white and the perps black. No good (i.e. leftist) political ends would be advanced by pursuing this story.

It’s a true shame, but there is no independent American press — it became extinct about 1967.

5 posted on 05/18/2007 1:13:43 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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There’s whites in the NBA? Must be mistaken!


6 posted on 05/18/2007 1:14:11 PM PDT by hophead
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To: FeeinTennessee

Let me suggest that reports that the male victim was made to eat his own penis makes this case “unique enough” to merit national attention...


7 posted on 05/18/2007 1:15:02 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: FeeinTennessee
Coverage in The Boston Globe
8 posted on 05/18/2007 1:16:06 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: FeeinTennessee

Thanks for posting this story.


9 posted on 05/18/2007 1:16:16 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: FeeinTennessee

The lack of national coverage of this horrible story shows the complete corruption of the national media. They are nothing but shills and pimps for the DNC and their socialist agenda. This kind of story puts blacks, who must always be shown as victims, in a bad light.

This will never see the light of day.


10 posted on 05/18/2007 1:16:43 PM PDT by kjo
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Charlie Daniels on this atrocity:

Bet You Haven't Heard

I live about 150 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee and you would think that any kind of sensational crime would be like local news in our part of the country. But such is not always the case.

You've probably never heard the names Channon Christian or Christopher Newsome. They were two young students at the University of Tennessee who were carjacked, raped, tortured and murdered.

If you don't have a strong stomach you probably shouldn¹t finish this column, as the murders were so brutal they're apt to make you sick.

Newsome, the young man was raped and beaten, they then castrated him and shot him several times. Then they dumped his body by some train tracks and set it on fire while his girlfriend was forced to watch.

Channon was gang raped over a period of days then her breasts were cut off while she was still alive, then they sprayed cleaning fluid in her mouth in an attempt to erase the traces of DNA, then her body was put into a garbage receptacle.

It seems to me that with the headlines and airwaves screaming about such inconsequential things as who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby and the bogus case against the Duke lacrosse players they could find space to report a brutal crime worthy of Saddam Hussein and his two demented sons.

But have you seen anything on the networks, The New York Times, The Nashville Tennessean? I haven't.

I wonder if it could be that the five perpetrators who have all been arrested were black.

If this had been white on black crime Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their ilk would have descended on Knoxville like a swarm of angry bees. I guess the lack of TV cameras discouraged them.

A free press is one of our most precious rights and a selective press one of our most dangerous realities. To suppress or ignore one of the most hideous murders of the decade is asinine and reeks of political correctness and agenda driven formats.

Is reporting the latest lewd episode of Paris Hilton's privileged life or playing Alex Baldwin¹s raging diatribe for the thousandth time really more important than letting the public know about a cruel and demented crime like
this?

Race should not enter the picture where crime is concerned and every decent human being should passionately condemn such a horrible thing as this no matter what color the victim or the perpetrators are.

Shame on the American media for letting such a violent crime as this slip through the cracks. I wonder what else they're not reporting.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels
May 7, 2007

11 posted on 05/18/2007 1:18:32 PM PDT by Tree of Liberty (Islam delenda est)
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The article posted doesn’t tell the half of it. I read a more in depth article about the crimes, and am sorry I did so. It’s the stuff of Hannibal Lecter.

The so-called black leaders of this country are such hypocrites. I don’t see things getting better for black culture. I think it will become increasingly more depraved.


12 posted on 05/18/2007 1:18:53 PM PDT by IndySecurityMom
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FNC (Hemmer) interviewed a Knoxville newspaper reporter about this earlier today.....he said “I don’t want to get too far into this, but there is DNA at the crime scene.....etc” to which the reporter agreed.....but absent hearing about it elsewhere, a listener would not know that BOTH victims were raped, and that the correct DNA statement would have been quite different.


13 posted on 05/18/2007 1:18:58 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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Ah, you got me there. This country has had much better days. I am educating my children so that they may live in other country’s. I do not see the US as a viable option in the near future.


14 posted on 05/18/2007 1:19:55 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: pabianice

Oh my GOD. Now I’m sick!


15 posted on 05/18/2007 1:22:52 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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16 posted on 05/18/2007 1:23:36 PM PDT by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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“I don’t see things getting better for black culture. I think it will become increasingly more depraved.”

Sad but true. Depravity almost seems the goal of “black leadership” — and it certainly IS the goal of their leftist puppeteers.


17 posted on 05/18/2007 1:26:13 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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According to published news reports, the two were tortured at length in each other's presence, strangled and shot. Newsom's mutilated and burned remains were found along a railroad track the following day.

If the victims were a black gay couple -- and they were killed in this manner by southern white conservatives, the story would go on for months... The candle light vigils alone would be demand full color...

Are some victims more equal than others? And if that's not it, what is it? Let's cough up the truth New York Times? Any insights Washington Post?

18 posted on 05/18/2007 1:27:21 PM PDT by GOPJ ( When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."- Churchill)
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We on the right have had a long time to start up a decent, fair press. We haven’t done so. Fox News was OK for a while, but is now barely better than CNN.
So when is some rich Republican (the left says we’re all rich) going to finance a right-wing press?


19 posted on 05/18/2007 1:29:32 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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