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It is the brutality of a crime that should determine if it is newsworthy, not the race of the victim or criminal. Unfortunately, that's not the standard that is used for reporting these days. The race of the victim will always take precedance over the brutality of the crime as far as the media goes.
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Well the footage that I saw from the Fox helicopter was def. brutal. If you believe the suspects deserved it or not is another matter. I prefer to read the paper more than local news so I'm not aware of this incident being tied to race. I really only hear people on hear mentioning race. Most people I speak to about this just comment on the brutality of the offices and how excessive they were. No mention of race at all.
If you really want to go there with race over bruality then how come whenever a white woman is missing, her face can be plastered on every screen across the country, yet when the person is black she barely gets a mention. And how come you only hear about white women getting raped by black men and barely get a mention when a black man rapes a black woman? Is is someway to instill fear in white people?
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I completely disagree with you on the idea of the media also painting blacks as homicidal rapists. I'm not sure which news sources you use, but most major outlets bend over backwards to make sure they do not show blacks in a poor light.
The only media outlets that show blacks as homicidal rapists and murderers are those outlets which glorify hip hop culture.
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You can disagree with me all you want, but I guarantee if you turn on the 11 o'clock news tonights that you will see at least 5 black men on the screen for some crime. And the only thing you might see about a white male is big branch falling on his garage. You say that the media tries to paint black men in a positive light yet I see the opposite. When I see the news report more about black men shooting each other than all the positive things black people do, it's a problem.
Last time I checked, the major news channels in our area did not glorify hip hop culture, nor do the papers.