Posted on 11/28/2013 12:11:50 AM PST by Zakeet
When Crystal Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there were 160 major television news stories in the first five days after the players were arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison, there were only 3 major television news stories, a difference in coverage of 5,233%.
When the Duke lacrosse-rape story broke in March/April 2006, it was huge news, garnering massive, widespread coverage by the networks ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as by FOX, CNN and MSNBC, and the print press, such as USA Today, New York Times and Washington Post.
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In the five days since, Nov. 22-26, a Nexis news search of the words Crystal Mangum, murder, Duke, and lacrosse in "All English Language News" reveals there were 48 total news stories but only 3 major television news reports one on Fox and two on CNN.
The big television networks ABC, CBS, and NBC and the liberal MSNBC and NPR did not report on Mangums murder conviction.
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You Freepers need to understand that we had plenty of other more important issues to cover ... like global warming, justice for Trayvon, the need to confiscate guns, and the harm caused by large soft drinks.
Rich white boys behaving badly sells copy. Another black person going to the pokey, not so much.
Its more than just that
Its a soft race war
Yes, I think it’s a bit of both though. In this case, their agenda happens to dovetail with the profit motive.
If I were that ugly, I’d kill myself, not someone else.
Its more than just thatRich white boys behaving badly sells copy. Another black person going to the pokey, not so much.4 posted on November 28, 2013 at 3:32:06 AM EST by Boogieman
Its a soft race war
The behavior of journalism is explained by Adam Smith - partly in Wealth of Nations, and partly in Theory of Moral Sentiments. The applicable quote from the latter isThe natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.That is the default assumption and perspective of the journalist, about the public at large. The public, journalists believe in their gut, is a bunch of boobs to be impressed and led by their betters. Namely, them:The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect.
But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsJournalists employ rank sophistry to position themselves as our betters; they engage in Monday morning quarterbacking on a grand scale to insinuate that anyone other than the specialists in a field could do a better job than the specialists in that field, if only they were as well-intentioned as the journalist is. Nobody would trust their own liver to the ministrations of a journalist in the operating room, but the journalist seeks to promote his own reputation above that of the surgeon by claiming that doctors do unnecessary operations to pad their own wallets. And if that sounds like something a liberal politician such as Obama might say - well, in Karl Marxs formulation, that is no accident, comrades.Journalists use claims of their own (or, what is the same thing, each others) objectivity to precisely the same purpose and intent that the ancient Sophists used their claims of superior wisdom. If the Sophist is wise, or if the journalist is objective, the person who is not a Sophist or a journalist would seem to have no standing to question them. And appearances are what journalists are all about. In reality it is unwise for anyone to assume his own wisdom, and it is not objective of anyone to assume her own objectivity.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)It is said that This problem, when solved, will be simple. And so it is with the question as to why modern journalists never engage in ideological competition, as journalists of earlier times notoriously did. The answer is the telegraph - the telegraph and the wire services, notably the AP. For the AP is nothing other than a virtual meeting of all the major journalism outlets in America.Adam Smith is correct - a meeting of competitive journalists which has been in continuous operation since before the Civil War, and which is not about merriment or diversion but precisely about business, could not have failed to produce a conspiracy against the public. A conspiracy which is not content merely to systematically omit mention of certain salient facts, but which will actually lie in furtherance of its own interest and against the public interest.
The blacks live in a social territorial enclave like the illegals. They get away on us with stuff they would not back in their home country or districts amongst themselves.
I hate to say it but some “black mothers” or “wives” out there feel proud when their men rape white people.
The simple explanation is that her victim was Black and that made the story not news worthy.
Just think what Trayvon Martin would have done if not capped in self defense by George Zimmerman
Wonder if Erica Kinsman goes down the same path as Magnum
Stripper lied, lacrosse team fried.... I own a T-shirt....
“Mangum was convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison,”
WTF?
White “racism” sells...
Damn, Koko is ugly, who the hell would pay for that?
If I was her boyfriend and she killed me, I would hope that I’d left a “thank you” note...
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