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From the Washington Free Beacon, a quantitative analysis confirming my perception that prestigious newspapers tend to bury Counter-Narrative facts late in their articles:
Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White
Free Beacon analysis shows how homicide coverage downplays the race of minority offenders
Charles Fain Lehman • April 14, 2022 5:00 am
Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal .
Frank James, the man arrested for Tuesday’s New York City subway shooting, is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics. A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that. In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, James’s race is not mentioned. The same is true for the coverage offered up by Reuters; the Washington Post only mentioned James’s race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for “low-income Black youths.”
Media critics on the right say that the conspicuous omission of James’s race from these news reports illustrates a trend among prestige papers, which deemphasize or omit the race of non-white criminals while playing up the race of white offenders. But is it a real pattern?
Yes. A Washington Free Beacon review of hundreds of articles published by major papers over a span of two years finds that papers downplay the race of non-white offenders, mentioning their race much later in articles than they do for white offenders. These papers are also three to four times more likely to mention an offender’s race at all if he is white, a disparity that grew in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 and the protests that followed.
The Free Beacon collected data on nearly 1,100 articles about homicides from six major papers, all written between 2019 and 2021. Those papers included the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis’s Star-Tribune. For each article, we collected the offender’s and victim’s name and race, and noted where in the article the offender’s race was mentioned, if at all.
So, in the great majority of times when the newspapers get around to mentioning that the killer is black, they bury it in the second half of the article. But, when they mention the killer is white, it’s much more likely to be upfront:
This article has lots more interesting information like this.
For future research, let me suggest tightly focused statistical analyses such as on police shootings for making good apples to apples comparisons. My prediction is that police shootings in which a black civilian is killed by a white cop are likely to get much more national coverage than when a white civilian is killed by a black cop and newspapers are more likely to emphasize photos of the two participants when their story conforms to The Narrative than when it subverts The Narrative.
Another interesting question is trying to figure out how much the media’s tendency to splash stories of whites killing blacks while downplaying the more numerous stories of blacks killing whites is due to racial animus vs. the news media’s Man Bites Dog impetus to feature interesting unusual stories than boring commonplace stories? Did the current racial hate orgy start out as just Man Bites Dog stories and then the media forgot that they were Man Bites Dog stories and came to believe they were representative? When there is a near total shutdown on mentioning the basic national murder statistics by race, I guess it wouldn’t be too hard to eventually come to believe your own headlines, even if you work in the room where the sausage is made.
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Here is one the biggest J-Schools in America, no doubt this sentiment stated explicitly (Rather than performed without telling the reader why it’s so moral) will soon become standard. Poynter also run ‘PolitiFact’ and the ‘ International Fact-Checking Network’.
“The public good —- rather than the public’s interest —- should be a prevailing factor.”
One of the most Orwellian things I’ve ever seen written outside actual fiction. It wasn’t so long ago, of course, that these people would consider the two to be anything but synonymous.
But I worked it out. ‘The public good’, real or presumed political interests of non-whites. ‘The public interest’ the boring and illegitimate political interests of ‘Legacy Americans’.
The "Public Good" is entirely determined by shit-libs,
Newspapers are run by people of the left (progressives).
The left believes all people are the same so there must be some explanation why some groups of people are more prone to crime, or achieve fewer discoveries or start fewer businesses, or have less assets.
The only acceptable reason, if everyone is equal, is that the people who run things are prejudiced against the underperforming groups.
Presumably the people who run things in America are white people. Q.E.D.
it is not animus against white people, It is the solution to a perplexing mystery.
The first, i.e. the hatred of white race.
Otherwise, CRT wouldn’t have come into existence or would have remained completely marginal.
I’m beginning to wonder if the black murder rate is just the tip of the iceberg on black dysfunction. Frankly, the little snippets I get about the craziness in black culture (e.g., boiling cleaning solution to make your house smell good) are just so stupid and insane that I’m afraid to learn more. Sure, a firm hand can go a long way toward stopping black violent crime. But how do you fix systemic stupidity?
In reverse reality Africa, the media has little choice but to call a spade a spade. The racial majority is also the majority perpetrator of crime and the main color in jail. Don’t think for a second that the mostly liberal white media are not falling on the ground kicking their little feet in indignation and screaming bloody murder racism whenever they find any excuse or cause.
Dan Roodt, a local rightwing philosopher called young black men an “unfortunate demographic” during a rare interview on mainstream TV a few years back. His point was that the ones who try harder to achieve some kind of legal success in life will always be judged according to the behavior and reputation of their brethren, no matter what they they achieve.
There are attempts by authorities to capitalize on white crime, such as the two farm managers who put a thief inside a coffin to scare him and were charged with attempted murder despite video evidence that the thief was traumatized but not seriously injured. Similarly, big money, time and resources are sometimes spent on “flagship” trials of whites like in the case of Oscar Pistorius. Whites who kill blacks, especially on farms, are also threatened with lynching by black mobs if they are not found guilty or if they qualify for bail.
Comments by Roodt are very apt including in Western nations. It is human nature to judge an individual example by a perceived average (stereotype), absent information about the unique specimen. Does Africa have "Affirmative Action" or similar double standards? While it's rarely noted, this is actually one of the worst slaps in the face given to the statistically rare but competent Black: He will be incorrectly judged less competent than he is, based upon the (correct) assumption by the well-informed that, on the average, a Black will be less qualified than a White.
“Yes, Newspapers Bury the Race of Black Murderers Toward the End of the Story”
From the back of the bus to the back of the news article. Where’s Rosa Parks when you need her?
James, while on the loose, was described as short and “heavy set.” True, but many or most might have pictured athletic musculature. Look out for a weight lifter. They were afraid to add “obese.” James has a big belly. They buried the belly. Maybe he would have been spotted sooner. Also, I suspect they positioned a short cup next to James so James would not look so short. (Speaking of burying obesity, whenever I see an artist’s rendition of a new building, all of the people coming and going are thin.)
Is there some sort of affirmative action quota for Snow White's coterie?
You’re cutting the media far too much slack. They’re absolutely wicked and dedicated to censorship of bad thought. Glenn Greenwald pointed out today that it was journos who were the instigators of Twitter’s deplatforming purges. The “hall monitors” complained to Twitter, and Twitter caved. But still, it’s better than the UK, where the wrong tweet can land you in prison.
It doesn’t fit the narrative. Evil white colonizers are hurting blacks. Evil whites have to die and burn in hell. 9/11 was a great thing according to the Left and BLM.
White liberals like Eric Bryan Stone feel so.
OT,sorry,but it appears there was an outbreak of “Stevishness” on the set of “Magic Mike.”
Thandie Newton has been fired after an alleged vicious row with star Channing Tatum,over the Will Smith cataclysm.
Newton,recall,appeared here not long ago in a laughable post re how she is sad that she has lite skin and took men and roles away from the darker hued ladies.
I’m not interested in firearms, but on a lark once went to a shooting range with a friend to try shooting a revolver. Even slowly and calmly aiming, I had trouble hitting the target when it was more that 8 – 10 feet away.
I’m sure a Glock is more accurate than the revolver I was using, but in a smoky subway car, with a gas mask on and your body coursing with adrenaline, it’s not as surprising as you think that no one was killed.
The FBI guy looks like a NYC mafioso.😉
Just anecdotal but I do know a WaPo reporter, and this individual really does drink the Kool Aid despite a) having grown up in a wealthy and very white big city suburb and b) now living in a very black and not particularly safe DC neighborhood for over a decade. Their FB feed is more than half posts about black-related stuff and thoughts about the importance of blacks finds its way into the annual Xmas letter sent out to friends that had to be embarrassing to read for many. Their beat is not politics, crime, or culture, either.
Another data point is whether a photo appears, and where in the article it appears. For a while a loophole existed for ostensibly progressive newspapers to never mention the race of a perp and thus make it immune from Google search results and LexisNexis searches, and invisible in future text-only archives, but have it there for current readers to visually see. But then the “Ban Mugshots” movement started, and police agencies either didn’t proactively release mugshots, dragged their feet until the crime was no longer news, or actively required a freedom of information request that could take half a year to process.
The tension here reminds me of another situation. Canadian activist group has sued the government because they do not collect or release racial breakdowns of prisoners. The activists want this information to prove that BIPOCs are disproportionately incarcerated. The government doesn’t record the data because other activists didn’t want to stigmatize and stereotype BIPOCs as more criminally inclined than heritage Canadians. You can’t please everyone, even on the same end of the political spectrum.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I saw the national news from the ABC-broadcast yesterday and they played up big this guy’s mental health issues, but totally suppressed/avoided any hint of racial animus or bias. Of course, we all know how this would’ve played out if an obviously crazy white guy would’ve just blasted a bunch of black folks. Regardless of his mental health, the guy would’ve been painted as a Trump supporter and/or Klan member.
The desire not to “stereotype” blacks and browns as criminally inclined seems to play a big role, whether or not the journalists actually hate whites. Even the larger newspaper in my area (middle of Kansas) has succumbed.
Not long ago, it carried a story about a local woman found murdered in her car. The police were hunting the alleged killer, whose identity was known. The paper even printed the man’s middle name, which I guess was judged more important for readers to know than his race. No photograph, either. Murders are uncommon enough here to be Man Bites Dog news, BTW.
The people writing these stories have to have noticed that blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes, but their cope seems to be, this is all do to white racism, white attitudes, like . . . noticing black crime!
“Their”?
Dan Roodt, a local rightwing philosopher called young black men an "unfortunate demographic" during a rare interview on mainstream TV a few years back. His point was that the ones who try harder to achieve some kind of legal success in life will always be judged according to the behavior and reputation of their brethren, no matter what they they achieve.
There are attempts by authorities to capitalize on white crime, such as the two farm managers who put a thief inside a coffin to scare him and were charged with attempted murder despite video evidence that the thief was traumatized but not seriously injured. Similarly, big money, time and resources are sometimes spent on "flagship" trials of whites like in the case of Oscar Pistorius. Whites who kill blacks, especially on farms, are also threatened with lynching by black mobs if they are not found guilty or if they qualify for bail.Replies: @duncsbaby, @Ben the Layabout
Tbh, I thought your phrase, “Reverse Reality Africa,” was an ironic reference to the U.S., and I didn’t figure out you were talking about South Africa until you mentioned Oscar Pistorius and whites killing blacks on farms. Otherwise most of what you said already applies to America.
The people writing these stories have to have noticed that blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes, but their cope seems to be, this is all do to white racism, white attitudes, like . . . noticing black crime!
Well, Blacks, as is well known, have no agency so disproportionate crime rates can hardly be their fault. Whites, on the other hand, have surplus agency. So much so that the things Blacks do are also Whites’ fault.
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This guy ain’t a murderer but the local Fargo news radio station still posts pics of the perps. Fergus Falls is a town of about 10,000 about 60 miles south east of Fargo:
https://kfgo.com/2022/04/13/violent-leader-of-slither-gang-from-fergus-falls-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius"As [Fergus Falls resident Michele] Anderson put it, "In 7,300 words he really only got our town's population and average annual temperature correct"."On 23 December 2018, Der Spiegel magazine announced that it was filing a criminal complaint against Relotius. Relotius has been accused of embezzling donations intended for Syrian orphans he claimed to have met in Turkey. Relotius appealed to readers for donations, which were then paid into his personal bank account."Did someone say "Lügenpresse"? Jayson Blair was an amateur!Replies: @duncsbaby
To state things more clearly: from the 50s, the dominant discourse was that the blacks were oppressed, i.e. not treated legally as equals- which was true. Both in Africa and North America.
Then, in the next 7 decades, blacks were, especially in the US, but also elsewhere, considered to be victims & somehow fundamentally innocent. It was psychologically unacceptable that victims, in some respect, “deserved” the exclusion from the host society and that segregationists were socially & culturally (although not morally) – right.
So, this is about world-view, not some whims. Modern world-view treats all humans as legal equals & its presumption is that they will, even taking into account all ethnic-cultural-historical varieties, achieve a functioning modern society. All dog breeds will, say, be equally functional in all life situations that matter.
To acknowledge that blacks as a race, and Islam- perhaps, Hinduism too- as culture, are simply incompatible with any notion of a functioning free modern society would mean going back to the 19th C more realist view on races and peoples. But, because the defeat of the extreme version of that world-view is the defining characteristic of the Western, then global Weltanschauung – everything that shows that humans are unequal in their (anti)social behavior should be suppressed.
To fully accept that blacks & similar types of humans are destined to be a threat to any good society is to re-introduce segregation laws & to write the UN chapters anew.
Is this necessary?
I’d say yes. If crime cases were reported correctly, there would have, inevitably, after some time, happened the change in the public opinion of most whites (and others) & the overhaul of the attitude of a non-black world towards them, which would have found the expression in legislation.
Something like “soft apartheid”.
And this is totally unacceptable to a modern mind.
What, on the other hand, is possible that various functioning powerful modern societies will have introduced partially “racialist” laws (not the extreme, Hitler- like legislation) after liberal rich democracies had clearly begun to disintegrate.
Then, it would be: You’re like “Titanic”. Sorry, but we don’t intend to sink like you are doing right now, just in front of our eyes.
A violent attacker has attacked 17 people in a community near me, half of whom have required medical attention. News reports have given a clear description.
It is a red-tailed hawk.
Not long ago, it carried a story about a local woman found murdered in her car. The police were hunting the alleged killer, whose identity was known. The paper even printed the man’s middle name, which I guess was judged more important for readers to know than his race. No photograph, either. Murders are uncommon enough here to be Man Bites Dog news, BTW.
The people writing these stories have to have noticed that blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes, but their cope seems to be, this is all do to white racism, white attitudes, like . . . noticing black crime!Replies: @Harry Baldwin
I think the news media fears that if it reported accurately on the extent of back crime, and of black dysfunction in general, it would stoke anti-black hatred. That’s probably true. There’s a reason that the media keeps talking about the Emmett Tills and not about the Knoxville Horror, the Jahweh Cult murders, the Zebra killings, the Wichita Massacre, and countless black individuals who carried out mass killings of whites. If it harped on the latter the way it does the former, the New York Times would read like Der Stürmer . On some level journalists are aware of that, so they promote the message “look how bad whites are” and suppress the message “look how much worse blacks are.” Their fear is that telling the truth would bring back Jim Crow 2 at the very least, so let’s just lie instead.
I admire the calm but unyielding way that Mr. Sailer makes his points. As for me, I think I am justified in considering these newspapers’ practice as a continuing libel of white people, of which I am one. I know these papers have other merits and I rely on them for a lot of their reporting. Still, as I see it they are actively trying to do me harm. And when I ask myself why, it is then that I come closest to the anti-Jewish conclusions that so many Unz readers express. I cannot possibly think that it is the weight of black journalists, editors and publishers that counts in this. What is it then? Why do these papers so flagrantly fail to live up to their own credos (credi?)? The other day, just after the Brooklyn mass shooting, I listened to a short NPR news summary. It had nothing about Brooklyn, but a whole lot about a police officer’s shooting of a black man (in Michigan, I think). It doesn’t please me to have to resort to “the fringes” to figure out what is really going on. But that is simply how it is.
What the Negro gewöhnlicher Mensch and the Negro Eliten do not realize is their bad behavior in places like New York City has crossed the Rubicon, and that nonblacks will never forgive them. It’s over. We shall see affirmative action receding. Nonwhite hesitancy to support programs favorable to Negroes. Return of broken windows policing. New York City will never elect another Negro mayor. More nonblacks will openly mock Negro intellectual inferiority (we’re seeing that already). The age of the numinous Negro is coming to an end, and I’m loving it.
I’m sure a Glock is more accurate than the revolver I was using, but in a smoky subway car, with a gas mask on and your body coursing with adrenaline, it’s not as surprising as you think that no one was killed.Replies: @anon
Not necessarily. Depends on the particulars of the revolver and the Glock. If the revolver you were shooting was double-action (i.e., pulling the trigger both cocked and fired it), the heavy trigger can be tricky for new shooters, causing them to pull the gun off-target. The rest has to do with barrel length, fit, and experience. I do not recall which Glock he was shooting, but if it’s one of the little ones that shoot the .380 caliber, it’s probably not very accurate. But I’m not a Glock guy, I haven’t shot them much. Also, the .380 a is relatively weak round, so if the aim isn’t good, it’s less likely to be fatal.
Has anyone ever attempted to conduct a study of how much less likely blacks are to report violent crimes than other races? How often is an assault or robbery dealt with personally or by other members “of the community” than it is reported to police. It seems likely that “13 does 50” might be more like “13 does 60 or 65” if all crimes were reported.
We know there have been cases where only shotspotter called in a shootout. One was in the middle of the day and involved numerous shooters.
This is why I don't buy the argument that the community is innocent. Blacks don't like airing their dirty laundry as they say.
I remember an article by a leftist to who actually said that Chicago should end shotspotter because it calls in too many shootings that don't actually end in arrests. You see according to the left it is better to have fewer calls and fewer arrests in general than a lot of calls. Madness.
As for assaults most are not reported in Black areas regardless of the victim's race.
One wonders how many incidents are not being reported.
Around 3:30 on Monday afternoon, I was passing through the Kings Creek area near Dadeland Mall in the Kendall area south of Miami. I was on a road running parallel to the Snapper Creek expressway. Numerous cars were parked on the narrow strip of grass and tall trees separating the road and the expressway, and several (white) people were crawling through a fence to exit the expressway on foot. I craned my neck and saw a fire truck sitting in the middle of the expressway. Then I turned onto Galloway Road and saw that the police had blocked the on-ramps to the eastbound lanes, all of which seemed to be closed.
What was going on, you ask? I have no idea. I haven’t heard one word about it on the news. I’ve done multiple searches and have turned up zilch.
We’re far ahead of the West of in terms of surviving multiculture, as we are so shall you be I would guess. You’ll need to really want to live while at the same time not living in fear is my advice. Whites in SA are about 12% of the population, neighboring Namibia is about 9% white.
Meanwhile, another angry naked Rapist Negro home-invaded a white woman’s place of residence in an upper-class neighborhood in… San Diego!
First, he arrived in a stolen minivan he procured in a car-jacking. He broke in, then masturbated in the downstairs bathroom, went upstairs, armed with a gun, and attempted to rape the white woman in the presence of her elderly father. They were able to phone 911 in the interim prior to the naked Negro arriving upstairs.
When police arrived, he put a gun to the white woman’s head, announcing that he was going to shoot her, as an intense, crazy hostage situation ensued.
As a nod to “Sailer’s Law” the Naked Negro fired a shot, missing his intended rape victim, and was eventually taken into custody.
You can presumably find a vague reference to this absolutely terrifying event buried somewhere on the back pages of the LA Times.
The angry Naked Negro was charged with 18 felonies, including hot prowl burglary, kidnapping, false imprisonment with a hostage, negligent discharge of a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle, indecent exposure, assault with the intent to commit a sex crime, sexual battery and assault with a deadly weapon
My take on it is a Liberal is just a Conservative who hasn’t been home invaded in a presumed secure neighborhood, only to be raped by a large armed black man in front of her elderly father, yet.
Vinnie the Fed.
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https://kfgo.com/2022/04/13/violent-leader-of-slither-gang-from-fergus-falls-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Curle
It was home to the Third State Hospital for the Insane, which is now listed by the National Park Service.
More recently it was the site of some major German journalistic fraud:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius
“As [Fergus Falls resident Michele] Anderson put it, “In 7,300 words he really only got our town’s population and average annual temperature correct”.
“On 23 December 2018, Der Spiegel magazine announced that it was filing a criminal complaint against Relotius. Relotius has been accused of embezzling donations intended for Syrian orphans he claimed to have met in Turkey. Relotius appealed to readers for donations, which were then paid into his personal bank account.”
Did someone say “Lügenpresse”? Jayson Blair was an amateur!
I've been out to visit the old state hospital in Fergus Falls. It's still stands but a lot of it is in great disrepair. It's a fine old building(s) and grounds.
https://img.apmcdn.org/fcd3d586a5624cf7c56c616497b4af722d879bfa/uncropped/5e9dac-20180306-ffsh06.jpg
“What is it then? Why do these papers so flagrantly fail to live up to their own credos (credi?)?”
The Iron Blue Pencil of Language Nazi comes gently into play.
“Credos” is correct, if a tad awkward. Language Nazi Rule Number One: English is a very very plastic elastic language. If a usage issue comes into question, better to simply re-phrase rather than get twisty over a point. You woulda been better off with say, “creed/creeds”.
The reason “credos” is correct in this limited case is that credo is a word in English, and credi is not its (Latin) plural. Credo in Latin means “I believe” but has morphed within English usage to mean a set of fixed beliefs; but we have a deformed version of it, “creed”, which is easier to use. “Credo” in Latin is a verb form not a noun, and has no plural.
Onwards and upwards! Excelsior! (but no multiple excelsiors or excelsiorae.)
https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2431/files/2022/04/abbot-william-aho.jpg
https://kfgo.com/2022/04/13/violent-leader-of-slither-gang-from-fergus-falls-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Curle
Ferguson Falls: 94% white. 2.4% black.
https://twitter.com/Poynter/status/1406983494941642753
“The public good —- rather than the public’s interest —- should be a prevailing factor.”
One of the most Orwellian things I’ve ever seen written outside actual fiction. It wasn't so long ago, of course, that these people would consider the two to be anything but synonymous.
But I worked it out. 'The public good', real or presumed political interests of non-whites. 'The public interest' the boring and illegitimate political interests of 'Legacy Americans'.Replies: @Bill Jones
The “Public interest” is something that the Public decides.
The “Public Good” is entirely determined by shit-libs,
How come the “Short” James has a good couple of inches on the Feeb and the Filth?
Is there some sort of affirmative action quota for Snow White’s coterie?
I don’t like the tribe the author belongs to, its likely bad business to let that tribe speak for us.
And speaking of conniving bastards:
https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1036934-tipping-the-scales-google-weaponizing-gmail-to-help-democrats-at-the-expense-of-republicans?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=07iItjJT5Giv4vUJSSISA_lAoM2XvmaWEhfs.A
Vaguely related, and another example of Sailer’s law of mass shootings. 12 wounded, no dead, three in custody after a South Carolina mall shooting (those backward yokels still have malls!)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/16/us/shooting-at-south-carolina-mall/index.html
Most whites are fully aware of black dysfunction….which is the reason the majority of whites in New York, New Jersey , Pennsylvania etc… spend significant sums of money to live in areas with ”good schools” and send their kids to schools which have few Blacks.
I first started noticing newspapers burying the racial angle on crime in the 1980s when I first started paying attention to news media seriously.
It’s a safe bet that this kind of dishonest news coverage of race and crime has been a thing since at least the 1960s, if not even earlier.
It’s nice to have someone document this in statistical form, but it isn’t telling us anything we didn’t already know, and why now, and not sometime in the past 50-60 years?
Next thing they’ll finally tell us is that Universities are dominated by leftists and that water is wet.
Well yes, exactly. They have had half a century to talk about this and said nothing; they are only talking about it now as a way to “in before” the discussion and control said discussion and keep discussion within the kosher sandwich.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius"As [Fergus Falls resident Michele] Anderson put it, "In 7,300 words he really only got our town's population and average annual temperature correct"."On 23 December 2018, Der Spiegel magazine announced that it was filing a criminal complaint against Relotius. Relotius has been accused of embezzling donations intended for Syrian orphans he claimed to have met in Turkey. Relotius appealed to readers for donations, which were then paid into his personal bank account."Did someone say "Lügenpresse"? Jayson Blair was an amateur!Replies: @duncsbaby
I remember reading about that story when it first happened. I think Relotius should not have relinquished his CNN 2014 Reporter of the Year award, he certainly defined more than anyone what CNN does all the time.
I’ve been out to visit the old state hospital in Fergus Falls. It’s still stands but a lot of it is in great disrepair. It’s a fine old building(s) and grounds.
Has anyone ever attempted to conduct a study of how much less likely blacks are to report violent crimes than other races? How often is an assault or robbery dealt with personally or by other members “of the community” than it is reported to police.
We know there have been cases where only shotspotter called in a shootout. One was in the middle of the day and involved numerous shooters.
This is why I don’t buy the argument that the community is innocent. Blacks don’t like airing their dirty laundry as they say.
I remember an article by a leftist to who actually said that Chicago should end shotspotter because it calls in too many shootings that don’t actually end in arrests. You see according to the left it is better to have fewer calls and fewer arrests in general than a lot of calls. Madness.
As for assaults most are not reported in Black areas regardless of the victim’s race.
Dan Roodt, a local rightwing philosopher called young black men an "unfortunate demographic" during a rare interview on mainstream TV a few years back. His point was that the ones who try harder to achieve some kind of legal success in life will always be judged according to the behavior and reputation of their brethren, no matter what they they achieve.
There are attempts by authorities to capitalize on white crime, such as the two farm managers who put a thief inside a coffin to scare him and were charged with attempted murder despite video evidence that the thief was traumatized but not seriously injured. Similarly, big money, time and resources are sometimes spent on "flagship" trials of whites like in the case of Oscar Pistorius. Whites who kill blacks, especially on farms, are also threatened with lynching by black mobs if they are not found guilty or if they qualify for bail.Replies: @duncsbaby, @Ben the Layabout
I find it curious the writer, presumably a man of European ancestry from Africa, uses the term “black.” Although my knowledge is sparse, it was my impression that the various indigenous (e.g. Negroid) races used very distinct terms, Zulu, Hutu, Masai, and so on for the various tribes. Furthermore, that they often hate each other’s guts.
Comments by Roodt are very apt including in Western nations. It is human nature to judge an individual example by a perceived average (stereotype), absent information about the unique specimen. Does Africa have “Affirmative Action” or similar double standards? While it’s rarely noted, this is actually one of the worst slaps in the face given to the statistically rare but competent Black: He will be incorrectly judged less competent than he is, based upon the (correct) assumption by the well-informed that, on the average, a Black will be less qualified than a White.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/16/us/shooting-at-south-carolina-mall/index.htmlReplies: @Ben the Layabout
It may be a case along the lines of this no doubt imperfect quote by Chris Rock, a man who knows a thing or two about Negroes: Every city has two malls, the one the white folks go to, and the one the white folks used to go to.