the detroit liberal media strikes yet again

[TheBigA]

The fact that one perspective gets facetime and another perspective doesn't, by its very definition makes the reporting biased.

So you want white supremacists to get their own TV show? I'm not sure I understand.

Did either Sharpton or Jackson comment on this story? If so, then friends of the victim should also be included. Didn't that happen?

 

[SarasotaJim]

I can see where it makes Al and Jesse potentially biased, but not the reporting. Can you provide a link to a news story or stories that exemplify the bias you allege? I'm not disagreeing that there can be, and often is, bias in the media, it's just not something I've discerned from this incident.

The inclusion of one viewpoint and the non-inclusion of others slants a story. Attribution is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It allows the reporter to say "I didn't say that, I'm just reporting what he said." When you interview someone and they are offering actual facts, a story can't be slanted. When you interview someone and they are offering opinions, the story IS slanted in the direction of those opinions. This method of biasing a story is the easiest and oldest of them all.

When you report on white-on-black incidents and have morons like Sharpton screaming racism, then turned around and report a black-on-white incident and don't even mention race, like the Free Press, you are guilty of biased reporting. If you simply read/hear/watch that kind of reporting, you are not aware of anything other than whites are racists.

The mainstream media are quite guilty of this kind of "reporting."

 

[SarasotaJim]

So you want white supremacists to get their own TV show? I'm not sure I understand.

You can't possibly be that stupid. This kind of BS isn't even worth a reply.

 

[TheBigA]

You can't possibly be that stupid.

Sorry...didn't mean to offend. Just trying to understand what you want.

When you report on white-on-black incidents and have morons like Sharpton screaming racism, then turned around and report a black-on-white incident and don't even mention race, like the Free Press, you are guilty of biased reporting.

But Sharpton isn't part of this particular story. I'm still not sure what you want. There is more to this story than just race.

 

[jry]

So you want white supremacists to get their own TV show? I'm not sure I understand.

Did either Sharpton or Jackson comment on this story? If so, then friends of the victim should also be included. Didn't that happen?

I told Mrs. JRY that if the weather had been nicer, you'd have seen a skin head or KKK march, then riots. Scary stuff and i am glad that there hasn't
been any protests.

 

[hangman]

When the Klan or Skins march, its the crowd and on-lookers that cause the riots and problems, not the marchers, and the liberal media has a field day, the marchers have their say peacefully, see who starts the violence. When Blacks stick together its called Unity, when Whites stick together its called Racism. For the Record, when was the last time you heard of the Klan march, if a tidbit of them marching gets out, the whole country gets on them and stops them in a flash, but the Blacks march on a non-stop basis and the liberal radio and television love the coverage, then the anchors go back to their lilly white suburban safe neighborhoods. Why do whites support and embrace Black music and radio stations but a Black would never support any White format, who is the racist group now....

 

[Unregistered]

The above poster is dangerously close to the line of tasteless trolling.

 

[TheBigA]

You're getting into TIO territory.

 

[SarasotaJim]

But Sharpton isn't part of this particular story. I'm still not sure what you want. There is more to this story than just race.

Sorry, I wasn't too clear. I knew what I meant, I just didn't completely spell out what I meant. What I was comparing, for instance, was the kind of coverage the Zimmerman case received from the media with the kind of coverage the current Detroit situation is receiving. There may be more to the story than race but for the life of me I don't see it. This is a blatant, overt, extreme hate crime at its very core and should be treated as such. What more is there to the story? The media has once again failed in its responsibilities to the public.

 

[TheBigA]

What more is there to the story? The media has once again failed in its responsibilities to the public.

Depends. They can make a bigger deal about it, and perhaps inflame things beyond where they are now. You look at the statistics, the city is 82% black, 10% white. And of the 82% black, most are living in poverty. The poor folks are far more likely to get angry than anyone else. Even if you're right, that's not place where you want to start a fight.

I remember during the LA riots in the early 90s, a lot of white reporters got beat up trying to cover the looting in South Central. When there's a story to do, a reporter covers it, regardless of what it might mean to his own life. One reporter was on a pay-phone (they had them in the early 90s) describing the scene live on the air, and he was beaten up, and the sounds of him being beaten up aired live on the radio. Think about that when you blame the liberal media. Sometimes you have to pick your fights. For me, I would not want to be a reporter covering stories like this in Detroit. I'd move to Palm Springs.

 

[SarasotaJim]

Ah, I think I finally understand your point. When a certain population has a certain color of skin, is poor and is angry with the life they created for themselves, they are to be protected and allowed to act like cretins and be excused for a total lack of ethics, morals, civility, knowledge and culture. We are never to actually mention, in any journalistic report, the fact that this group of citizens are at the root of any violent and hate-filled subject issue. Got it.

 

[SarasotaJim]

When Blacks stick together its called Unity, when Whites stick together its called Racism.

You make a very valid point and it is a point that is enhanced by the way the media reports on certain events. Having said that, the remainder of your post is really on the edge of being offensive. Let's try not to fall into the same pit we accuse others of falling into. Fighting fire with fire is quite effective but the end result is that all of us end up with nothing but ashes. This is all just part of a long-running political effort to divide and conquer, and the media have swallowed it.

 

[TheBigA]

Ah, I think I finally understand your point.

I don't know about that. It's been my experience that when you poke a stick in a bee hive, you get stung. If you want journalists to blame the bees, it's not going to change the outcome. You can blame journalists, blame the government, or blame the bees, but the end result will always be the same. The fact that we're talking about a particular story tells me that SOMEONE reported the story. Whether it was the biggest outlet or not, someone reported it. In our country, no one is going to force the media to cover certain stories. That's the price of living in a free society. In other countries, there are even more stories that don't get reported. As I said, the problems in Detroit are FAR bigger than this one story, and reporting it won't solve the underlying problem or prevent it from happening again. That's not a problem for reporters or the media, but the people who live there. The fact that they haven't done anything but let it get worse says a lot.

 

[Silkie]

There was also a report that a game of chicken was underway.

 

[Unregistered]

"the fact that this group of citizens are at the root of any violent and hate-filled subject issue. Got it."

The fact?
It's not a fact that all violence and hatred is, at the root, caused by people of a certain skin color.
Not factual in the least.

There is plenty of violence and illegality in very caucasian poor communities. Skin color has nothing to do with it.

 

[jry]

I don't know what happens at those marches. Being born in The D and being there in 67..... i don't ever want to see anything close to that again. Don't worry about Al, he is too busy defending his working with the Bureau back in the day. Now i know why he had so much bravado during the Brawley incident.
BTW, i was at Conyers royalty deal at Wayne State a few years ago. For once, Al and i were on the same side. He had to leave early and boy, did he get piled on when he left. The attendees were merciless. They clobbered Cathy Hughes and Alfred W. There is really no loyalty within the group (especially when money is the subject).