How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War, Black man runs doen Whites and no mention by Media.

“Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide.
How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War
by Administrator on July 16, 2020
Related Tags: Column, Buzz


CNN”s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo. (Photo: CNN)
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Real Clear Politics with the title, “Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide.” It is being syndicated by GunsAmerica with the permission of its author, Dr. John Lott Jr.

On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there’s one thing you won’t learn from their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white.

NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by “right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.” They quote a researcher about how these right-wingers were “trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement.”

The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kelete. But you’ll find scant mention of the driver’s ethnicity in mainstream media coverage. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. The American national media also doesn’t note that Kelete’s two victims were white. You can find that out over at the U.K.’s Daily Mail.

Among the few U.S. outlets to mention the race of the driver is Heavy.com. The rest of the news media seemingly would rather just have people assume that a white driver attacked two black protesters. Acknowledging the driver’s and victims’ ethnicity wouldn’t advance their narrative of oppression, so it apparently isn’t newsworthy.

One case doesn’t prove a pattern. It could just be that while the American media knows almost everything about this killer, including his name, age, and where he lives, they couldn’t find information on his race. Possibly the foreign news outlets were just lucky to discover that information.

Of course, the media outlets might honestly not view race as essential to the story. But their selective reporting of it shows that they think race is important when it involves certain races. The problem is that it gives readers a biased perspective, inflaming prejudice and creating stereotypes.

Research conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center, of which I am president, on all police shootings from 2013 to 2015 found that while local news coverage will often mention the race of the officer and the suspect, the national coverage is much more selective. While the evidence indicates that black officers are no less likely to shoot suspects than white officers, local news coverage of black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases. By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage.

SEE ALSO: Murderer of 11-Year-Old was Released from Jail Due to COVID-19 Concerns
Tucker Carlson rips CNN’s Don Lemon:

“If you’re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they’re compliant. They’ll say what they’re told.”
pic.twitter.com/ZDTMcYl7yV

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 9, 2020
The selective coverage creates the belief that white officers are the problem — they are the ones shooting blacks, presumably because white officers treat black suspects differently than white ones. Watching the news, you would never guess that the research found that black officers were just as likely as white officers to shoot an unarmed black suspect.

The media’s selective coverage has done real harm. It has heightened racial divides and sown distrust of the police in the communities that need them most. Now, with police sidelined and facing “defunding,” gun violence is rising fast in major cities around the country.

The media similarly seems intent on claiming that mass public shooters are disproportionately white and right-wing, when nothing could be further from the truth. While 58% of the mass public shooters from 1998 to 2019 were white (excluding people of Middle Eastern descent), about 75% of the total U.S. population was white. Middle Eastern Arabs made up just 1% of the population, but accounted for 8% of shooters. Of all the mass killers, 72% have no known political affiliation or views – only 3% are known to be conservative or Republican.

Race and politics increasingly divide Americans, and selective media reporting is largely to blame. The media, not Trump, is fanning the flames of violence. The destruction and the long-term harm that is being done to heavily minority parts of our cities is their responsibility.

 

this is news? was aware of this several years ago... stopped watchin em...

ya I know... sadly there are many that consider this crap gospel

 

Both of those dingalings suffer from ossified cranial cavities. Recyling (as @OldDude49 says) old news as tho' it were worth the news print it isn't on. (Well, the cameramanwomanit has to earn a living.)

 

They tried indoctrinating us in school into listening to the news when I was a kid, as though it was the truth some of us knew better.
I got in trouble am lot because I wouldn't play along.

 

Is Don Lemon a white dude wearing Black Face and trying to Relate!!!!!




Gives these guys a listen, pretty much nails it on all points!

 

Ustabe just pimping War in general

When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war" Right bastard William was.

So, "Yellow Journalism" has been around since the Centry before last.


I think the current crop wants to start another "Rodney King" set of riots - caused by non-stop replay of the very edited clip of Rod getting his ass kicked.

I think the current flock of snowflakes will be in for a horrible surprise what the gloves come off and holding a cell phone/camera will be prove to be no help - and they get their ass kicked.

 

There will come a time when you either "getouta Dodge" or stay to protect your rights and propery.

 

Did I ever mention HEARST Group bought out my second to last place I worked?
Soon after I was glad I left first!

 

Then again, FWIW, when Castro took over Cuba my teacher started some type of discussion group (yes some areas had teacher that were outspoken, concerned and cared what was taught) and ask us to all chime in.

Some how I stated what I thought from watching the evening news.
The Teach polity educated me about the fallacies of the news and that the people of Cuba would be the looser.
Two things struck me at once.
1. The first time in my life that an adult that I respected suggested I might be wrong and cared enough to talk common since.
2. The world was not as I thought I knew it.

I never looked back and never trusted the media and was ready to adjust my view of researched material.

This during the era of McCarthyism.
"a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.

Trolls are the worst thing of the internet.

 

trust me, Dodge is waaay overrated.

The San Blas islands on the other hand....

or

there is still Fatu Hiva

 

I like the pictures, I read up on it.
Somehow I do not think it is my version of paradise.
My bone density is way to high to allow me to swim easily.
No Fat so I do not float.
No bridge to the Main Land
And I do not like the current regime/commune!

 

Protesting on the highway is modern darwinism.

 

Yup, turning Squatters into Splatters @ 60 mph! At least no Jaguar's were harmed in this!

 

All Lives Splatter.

Seriously, playing on the highway in the dark wearing dark clothing is not conducive to a long life.