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Aussie College Baseball Playa Killed By Bored Teens In Ok Narrative

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Aug 19, 2013.

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  1. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

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    American by birth, ex-Oklahoman by the grace of Switzer.
     
  2. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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    Why won't The Media tell us if that 8-year-old was black!?!
     
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  3. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

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    nailed it. The NYT didn't cover Zimmerman/Martin until mid March. As shown, the Sentinel waited 11 days before race came up.

    The fact is, though, the vast majority of Americans don't read those papers. They watch the news magazines. They read websites that take legit stories and twist them. That is the infamous "media" people complain. Fair or not, the first place I saw race come up in the latest brouhaha was on Daily Kos, which ran a story basically saying racists were going to love the story because it was black on white.
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

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    Racists loved Zimmerman too.

    Of course we're talking about a different group of racists, a group that many refuse to admit exist.
     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

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    I'd agree. So long as you're including the conservative press along with it.

    FWIW, I don't think it's because the media's full of a bunch of liberals. Not on the local level, at any rate. I think it's because being a watchdog is hard, tedious work, and you're up against two things:

    1. Over-anxious, self-serving PR wonks whose job it is to waste your time, hector you and generally obfuscate.

    2. Your allies in watchdogging -- the folks who give you tips, express complaints -- are increasingly...unstable personas. On both sides. An ecoterrorist might be dead right about some company dumping shit in the water...but they're an ecoterrorist, too. And the tax watchdog might be dead right about government waste....but he also owns $50,000 of liens.
     
  6. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

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    Brings to mind The Time Life publications of Henry Luce that were complicit in selling the public on
    The Viet Nam War and the need to stop the spread of communism.
     
  7. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

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    you new to this board?
     
  8. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

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    Look at the two sides of this discussion. Seriously. Look at who is posting from one side and who is posting from the other, and their respective backgrounds.

    This is 1.0.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    Yeah. Pretty much. And, it's confusing to me too. I don't know why liberals get so uncomfortable reporting certain details.

    Let's look at a different story for a moment.

    A transgendered woman was beaten to death in Harlem: nyti.ms/18Qb9GL It is rightly being investigated as a hate crime.

    But, let's see if this case crosses over into the national media and becomes a sensation.

    If this had happened in Kentucky, tarheel316 would be here telling us how backwards the entire state is. If it happened in the Bible Belt, talking heads would want to know what was being taught in the local churches. Columnists would wonder why the local youth has such hate in their hearts.

    Will the media wring their hands over this? Will they explore why their is such intolerance for the LGBT community among African-American men? On the 50th anniversary weekend of Dr. King's speech will anyone ask why young black men in Harlem are beating a transgendered person to death?

    Frankly, I doubt it. This doesn't fit an established media narrative.
     
  10. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

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    To be fair, when GOP politicians get nabbed on sex and drug scandals, the conservative side of the media blows it off. When preachers steal millions, there is no call for action. When a black man shoots a gun, the NRA hides.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    This is basically true. But FoxNews, National Review, etc. are acknowledged as conservative media.

    Except for maybe MSNBC, the rest of the media is not "liberal", they're mainstream. So, yes, they should be held to a different standard that conservative media, or just admit they have an agenda.
     
  12. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

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    YF....just out of curiosity, what do you consider the media? I ask because I believe there are layers and layers and layers.

    A writer for the NY Times (or most good dailies) is different from the news columnist who is different from the op-ed writer who is different from the local TV reporter who is different from the TV anchor who is different....you see what I am getting at.
     
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