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National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work
#6919923 - 05/15/07 01:18 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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"A young couple, students from the University of Tennessee, were victims of a carjacking and were kidnapped, raped, tortured and eventually murdered by five people. Descriptions of their deaths were so brutal that I had to read them several times to fully process the implications."
"Newsom was kidnapped, raped and beaten. According to reports, his penis was then cut off before he was shot several times and set on fire, all while his girlfriend watched. His body was then dumped alongside train tracks. Christian was kept alive and gang-raped multiple times over a span of four days. Her breast was cut off while she was still alive and her kidnappers sprayed cleaning fluid into her mouth to cleanse it of DNA. Her body was then put into a garbage can.
National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work
Posted by Matthew Sheffield on May 15, 2007 - 09:16.
The sudden force that the liberal press brought to bear on the falsely accused Duke lacrosse team has been curiously absent on a much more grisly crime committed against a white couple by a group of black youths.
Personally, I don't think that local crime issues should ever be covered in the national press but if the media are going to cover them, they need to be consistent. My friend La Shawn Barber has a must-read post on the matter:
Early this year, a white couple was carjacked, tortured, raped, and murdered by a group of black thugs. Christopher Newsom (23) was gang-raped, shot and set on fire. There are unconfirmed reports that the killers cut off his penis while he was still alive. The going-to-straight-to-hell murderers made Channon Christian (21) watch, and then they gang-raped her over four days and left her to die. There are unconfirmed reports that her breasts were cut off while she was still alive. (Also see this story and the Wikipedia entry)
I’ve been getting e-mail about this case since it happened, but I’ve been hesitant to blog about it. Flopping Aces published a big post about the case last night, which probably accounts for why I received a few more Christian-Newsom e-mails this morning. Here goes!
I’ve noticed that mainstream media are reluctant to report this story, especially when it first happened. In light of the blanket coverage the Duke “rape” case received, the paucity of coverage in this case seems a bit unbalanced. I mean, isn’t the brutal, black-on-white gang-rape, mutilation, and murder of two people more than or at least as newsworthy as a white-on-black gang-rape (which obviously was phony)? Even if the stripper’s allegations had been true, why was the Duke case burning up the airwaves while the Christian-Newsom case barely emits a spark?
What’s up with the lack of blanket media coverage? I’m not talking about a story here or there with case updates. The media should be swarming around this story. What happened to Christian and Newsom should be all over the airwaves and printing presses. http://newsbusters.org/node/12761\
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom_murder
The media SUCKS it is one of our biggest problems, not only on this issue but on everything.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: lonestar2004]
#6919950 - 05/15/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Put a bullet in the head of every one of those pieces of shit. Drag their asses into the streets the minute the guilty verdict is read and put their waste-of-space lives to an end.
As for the media, they're spineless pieces of shit and everybody knows it.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: lonestar2004]
#6919974 - 05/15/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I dont know how the media is "refusing to cover this"
I heard about it.
Maybe you need to diversify your news sources.
Maybe the real problem is they aren't sensationalizing it enough for you? Would you really feel better if you could listen to Nancy Grace squeal about the injustice of it all for an hour on prime time?
I dont understand what you're looking for...
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Madtowntripper]
#6919990 - 05/15/07 01:34 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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He was illustrating the liberal hypocrisy of the mainstream media. When a white person commits a heinous act against a black person it will be plastered all over the news for days. Race-baiting demagogue scumbags (Rev. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc...) will play the victim, hold marches, and blather on and on. But, when black men kill white people nobody takes notice and it doesn't hit the mainstream news.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is BIAS.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Madtowntripper]
#6919998 - 05/15/07 01:36 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I heard about it, although it was in a blog and not a major news source.
I couldnt believe it, I know there are bad people in the world...but holy fucking shit. There is nothing that can be done to those pieces of shit that would be anywhere close to justice.
The problem the thread starter seems to be getting at is if this was some white kids that did something to some black kids...sharpton, jackson, and the media would be calling for a public hanging for such an awful hate crime. You would hear about it in every paper, on every news channel.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: lonestar2004]
#6920003 - 05/15/07 01:37 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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The difference here: nobody involved was rich.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: lonestar2004]
#6920022 - 05/15/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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And people wonder why the majority of Americans support the death penalty.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: trendal]
#6920034 - 05/15/07 01:42 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Be honest....if this was a gang of white kids who had done this to a black couple it would have been a national news story for days if not weeks.
Isn't it amazing that a disc jockey says, "nappy-headed hoes" and there is an unbelievable uproar that goes on forever? But, a heinous murder like this gets barely any press?
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Phred]
#6920036 - 05/15/07 01:42 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Phred said: And people wonder why the majority of Americans support the death penalty.
Phred
Death is a penalty too easy for those fuckers. What they did was true terrorism...send them to gitmo.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Phred]
#6920041 - 05/15/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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> And people wonder why the majority of Americans support the death penalty.
Personally, I feel 23 hours a day in a supermax cell with no hope and only time is a much worse punishment. Death is too nice; an easy escape.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Phred]
#6920044 - 05/15/07 01:44 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Phred said: And people wonder why the majority of Americans support the death penalty.
Because us Americans are backwards troglodyte cowboys who do not possess the enlightened intellect of the progressive Europeans.
Edited by RandalFlagg (05/15/07 01:54 PM)
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Seuss]
#6920051 - 05/15/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said: > And people wonder why the majority of Americans support the death penalty.
Personally, I feel 23 hours a day in a supermax cell with no hope and only time is a much worse punishment. Death is too nice; an easy escape.
I agree 100%. I would much rather be killed than in a place like that.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: RandalFlagg]
#6920099 - 05/15/07 01:55 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
RandalFlagg said: But, when black men kill white people nobody takes notice and it doesn't hit the mainstream news.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: Madtowntripper]
#6920109 - 05/15/07 01:57 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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The first I heard about it was this morning reading Snopes. (It happened back in January)
and I just find it interesting comparing the attention given the Duke case with this crime.
Some are celebrating ... click http://www.svengalimedia.com/race/sexiest_black_male_felon_2006.html
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: gluke bastid]
#6920110 - 05/15/07 01:58 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's true.
You must admit that the "nappy-headed hoes" incident got infinitely more press than this murder incident.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: lonestar2004]
#6920136 - 05/15/07 02:05 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Getting back on topic, I don't know how I feel about this. I certainly do not like the bias, be it racial, financial, or other... but at the same time, I would prefer the media always ignore this type of event, at least at the national level. The CNN in your face hyper-reporting of this type of crime only encourages copycats.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: gluke bastid]
#6920139 - 05/15/07 02:06 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Look, I agree that the news media sensationalizes dumb stories over important ones, but I don't think they do so because they want to make white people look bad and black people look good. They don't give a shit either way. They cover all kinds of stories, including this one, and when the public get all up in a tizzy over something, they report on it more and more. Like Anna Nicole Smith dying. They just want the ratings.
Yes it is terribly frustrating that we hear about Duke Lacrosse team or Alec Baldwin getting mad at his daughter before we hear about tragedies like this one. But thats what you get in a capitalistic mass media system in which Rupert Murdoch owns everything. The news that has the most appeal are stories that are the most like soap operas. Instead of bitching, why not diversify where you get your news from instead of reading all of it off of google?
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: RandalFlagg]
#6920147 - 05/15/07 02:08 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
RandalFlagg said: It's true.
You must admit that the "nappy-headed hoes" incident got infinitely more press than this murder incident.
That's because it was entertainment, not news. Entertainment always wins the most ratings.
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: gluke bastid]
#6920149 - 05/15/07 02:08 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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If only we had a state-controlled media that told me what I should think.....
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Re: National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder Suggests PC at Work [Re: gluke bastid]
#6920152 - 05/15/07 02:09 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thats all I'm trying to say.
This story has been available to anyone who cares to look for news.
The only place it has not been reported is the hysterical mass-media, CNN, FoxNews, O'Really and Nancy Grace.
Get over it.
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