This story just doesn’t fit their agenda. Sad but true.
“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!
Didn’t you hear? White referees call more fouls on Black NBA players than they call on White players.
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.
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...
Thanks for posting this story.
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.
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
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.
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?
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?
“Also on Thursday, Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols stated that he has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty if the defendants are convicted.”
You’ve got to be kidding. If there was ever an argument for bringing back public capital punishment this is it........
Hang’em high in the street then leave their bodies on display for a few hours.
THE NATIONAL MEDIA ARE OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE DNC AND THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT.
THAT THIS STORY HAS NOT BEEN COVERED IS ITSELF A CRIME.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WAPO, BOSTON GLOBE, ETC, ETC, ETC, ARE GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY.
THE LIBERAL MEDIA ARE PIMPS AND SHILLS FOR HILLARY’S SOCIALISM.
Recall the Jesse Dirkhising murder in Arkansas where a couple of homosexual men raped and tortured a 13 year old boy to death?
Remember the Wichita murders where a couple of black men tortured and killed five whites (and nearly murdered a sixth)?
If so, it's not because of anything you read in the MSM. Those terrible events were not worthy of media coverage and they were not considered hate crimes.
No double standard among America's journalistic elite. No siree.
If the two victims had called the four defendants "nappy headed hos" while the victims were being carjacked, kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered, then I'm sure this crime would have received more coverage from the major media outlets.