Originally posted by Red NightIs it me or did anyone else get the feeling that Greta Van Susteran ejoyed being in Aruba?
Actually, I agree with Kirksey here. I think the coverage has a lot to do with race.
At about the same time as the natalee hollaway case, a young balck woman also went missing. Some believed she may have been kidnapped. I have no idea what happened to her because it got very little press coverage.
On the other hand, the press spent countless hours ...[text shortened]... raped before she was killed?
Had she been sold into slavery?
If so, where had she been sold?
Originally posted by kirksey957That whole thing was sick and then we went through it again (for a second time) with Jon Benet.
Is it me or did anyone else get the feeling that Greta Van Susteran ejoyed being in Aruba?
Those guys sit around and pray for stuff like this to happen. I'm sure Greta loved being in Aruba, but i'm sure whe loved being at the center of a "big news story" more.
Some day one of these morons is gonna commit the crime just to get an inside track on the coverage.
Originally posted by kirksey957Let's test your theory. If anyone knows of a white man with a large family who is willing to kill (bonus points for stabbing) them in a private setting, please forward their information to:
I tend to think that when a white woman like Susan Smith or Andrea Yates goes crazy and has a little bit of bizarre religion to go with it, the press are all over it.
kirksey957@timeforchess.com
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Originally posted by FreakyKBHDon't you have some theology to argue in the spiritual forums?
Let's test your theory. If anyone knows of a white man with a large family who is willing to kill (bonus points for stabbing) them in a private setting, please forward their information to:
kirksey957@timeforchess.com
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Originally posted by kirksey957im not sure if a degree of racism was implied here, but if there was I must be missing something. When the press covers a white lady who murdered her children and is crazy, doesnt that look bad for white people? So if racism was a factor, wouldnt the press not cover the white people as much and be all over the muslim family, attempting to damaged their reputation??
This is absolutely amazing to me. A couple of observations. These children were stabbed. Nearly as many children lost their lives in this event as happened in the Amish shooting, but those children were shot. They were also white. The four children in Louisville were Muslim.
The week prior to this the press gave blanket coverage of the school shoo ...[text shortened]... ld died. She was also white.
The Andrea Yates case is just yet another example of hipocracy.
this makes sense to me, does it to anyone else?
Originally posted by alexstclaireI think he means the racism of the audience (or simply the media perception of this racism) that cares more if the piece of news is about white people.
im not sure if a degree of racism was implied here, but if there was I must be missing something. When the press covers a white lady who murdered her children and is crazy, doesnt that look bad for white people? So if racism was a factor, wouldnt the press not cover the white people as much and be all over the muslim family, attempting to damaged their reputation??
this makes sense to me, does it to anyone else?
Another consideration: more people now get their news from TV than from newspapers.
Last night Bill O'Reilly devoted a major segment of his show to a story about a 10-year-old Negro girl who was killed at her birthday party in March by a stray bullet from a gang shooting. This was the second story he's done on the neighborhood in about that many years.
O'Reilly's show has more viewers than all his cable news competition put together.
Originally posted by mathemosO'Reilly's show has more viewers than all his cable news competition put together.
Another consideration: more people now get their news from TV than from newspapers.
Last night Bill O'Reilly devoted a major segment of his show to a story about a 10-year-old Negro girl who was killed at her birthday party in March by a stray bullet from a gang shooting. This was the second story he's done on the neighborhood in about that many years.
O'Reilly's show has more viewers than all his cable news competition put together.
Where'd you read that?