Geraldo Antoniello, 29Despite extensive media coverage in New York, no major media outlet has printed a description of the two monsters. They would rather leave the public at risk than tell them that the perpetrators were black.
This story was reported in all the major NYC papers, plus all the local Queens papers. Police released details on the suspects along with a hotline number.
The staff of CofCC.org had to look through 10 NYC articles before we found one that admitted the suspects were black males! Only a small neighborhood paper printed this (click here.) This newspaper was the first paper to post the story online, meaning that all the other papers had the same information when they posted their stories.
The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, NBC New York, FOX New York, Queens Courier, CBS Radio New York, and others censored the race of the perpetrators. In many cases “police said two black males” was simply changed to “police said two males.”
Back in 2007, CofCC.org reported that the LA Times publicly admitted on their website that they censor information about the race of minority crime perpetrators.
From LA Times (June 6th, 2007)…
Racial information was once routinely included in news stories about crimes, but in recent decades, newspapers and other media outlets stopped mentioning suspects’ or victims’ race or ethnicity because of public criticism. Newspapers came to embrace the idea that such information is irrelevant to the reporting of crimes, and may unfairly stigmatize racial groups.
Between 1976-2005, blacks made up 13% of the US population, but committed 59% of felony murders. Overall, blacks are 9 times more likely to commit murder than whites. - Source: US DOJ
News Source National Policy Institute
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Have seen this kind of stuff on many, many sites. Incogman being typical.
If you've been raised, to beleive that you are the object of non ending racism by the open community, by a bunch of deep media covered racist subversive propagandists this is what the open community of non racist non propagandists can expect from these victims.
Rascism against that open community by state and perps.
This operates at all levels, state, religious, academic and secular.
It is in the most profound of ways nothing but THEFT and the deliberate degredation of our open society.
From the LA Times policy statement: "... and may unfairly stigmatize racial groups."
If this information was routinely included, it could have the very beneficial effect of forcing these racial groups to face up to their own failings. As things are today, they are permitted to develop a feeling of superiority, to ignore the fact that their group as a whole acts barbarically.
It would also put the rest of the population on proper notice as to who should be avoided, and what laws and racial profiling are justified. To continue to ignore relevant information is simply to stick you head in the sand and pretend that there is no problem. We hardly need to worry about stigmatizing blacks; most of us know them for what they are. What we need are the published facts to support those assertions so that we as a society can begin to deal with the problem. Ignorance is no solution.
That is a shocking statistic, Sarah! Though I have for a long time suspected as much.
Great post Sarah
Very interesting Sarah and not surprising in the least....Donna
One just has to look at the insane coverage of Arkansas reporter Anne Pressly who was savagely raped and murdered in her home in October of 2008. She appeared in a cameo appearance in Oliver Stone's movie flop "W" as a conservative commentator. The media for five days went on an insane conspiracy theory that she may have been attacked as some sort of hit job by the Bush administration at that time.
The media frenzy lasted less than a week however when the murderer was apprehended with her purse, credit cards and laptop. Apparently it was (surprise!) a black man with a previously criminal history and, oddly, no ties to the Bush administration. He crawled through her pet door, raped and beat her unconscious until she died five days later. The story immediately died in the media spotlight and the killer's identity was barely mentioned much less his race.
To me this is reason enough to hold the media responsible for withholding information from the public as well as outright lying to them when their safety is threatened. Sickening.
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