So what the article is saying is that, it happens enough, therefore it's not newsworthy, inversely, the same is true if a White attacks a black, it happens so little it is newsworthy. If that isn't blatant coddling and racism on the part of the MSM, I don't know what is.
“There is a discomfort level [in the national media] with stories that have black assailants and white victims,” said Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative newspaper columnist and TV commentator who has featured the Knoxville case on her Web site. “If it doesn’t fit some sort of predetermined narrative of how we view taboo subjects like race and crime, there’s a disinclination to cover it.”