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11 days. 11 days until race was mentioned. Then, five inches later, dismissed. 11 days.

 

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The "non-opinion media" became extinct sometime around 1973.

 

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You do realize that newspapers were used as propaganda outlets 200 years before that, right?

 

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Fully understand that. But somewhere along the line the media sold the public on their function being an unbiased watchdog. I assume you were taught that in J-school.

Now there's all kinds of dog and not much watch.

 

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Was boredom given as the original motive?

Was it a completely random shooting?

In the Zimmerman case, he called the police prior to the shooting. They didn't know each other, but the shooting wasn't random either.

 

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How would you write it? Just ask the police if they suspected that race was a motive, then write that sentence: "Police do not believe, at this time, that race was a motive."

 

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Q: Why did they do it?
Police chief: They said they were bored.

"Asked a motive, the police chief said the suspects said they were 'bored.' However, he specifically did NOT rule out race as the REAL motive."

 

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Greenhorn's first rule of media criticism: before delving into any topic, learn how to spell Australian correctly.

"Austrialian" might have to do with Vienna.

 

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Where do these stories get a lot of coverage? The 24-hour news channels? I read the NYT in the morning, and news mags in the evening. They barely make a ripple in those places.

 

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Where did you come up with 1973? Watergate? Vietnam?

 

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Our prisons are filled with people who do these things. If the New York Times and and the news mags gave all of these crimes the same over-the-top coverage, they wouldn't have time to cover anything else or space to publish it.