Well, that pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? ;)
Scopes (which is a good resource for technical information about things but is infected with PC like most other sources) dismissed the idea of media bias by noting that there are a lot of terrible crimes committed in America. The press can't give them all big time coverage, so they reserve such coverage for things that are especially shocking, such as mass murders, murders involving celebrities, and so forth. The Knoxville murders didn't fit into any of those categories, we're told. It was just a routine weekly crime.
But you'll notice that Scopes also included this category of crime as meriting big time media coverage: Crimes with "victims who especially elicit sympathy".
What do they mean by that? Jon Benet Ramsey, might be one example. But blacks who are attacked by whites are another such example. That's obvious simply by watching the news. The media consider blacks who have been harmed by whites to be victims who especially elicit sympathy. Whites who are attacked by blacks don't fit that bill. That's why totally insignificant crimes, like anti-black graffiti or a noose display, merit national coverage.
How many strippers get gang raped every year? My guess is it's a pretty high number, so they don't make the cover of Newsweek very often. Nor do they merit six editorials in The New York Times or get round-the-clock coverage on the news channels. But when a black stripper claimed to be gang raped by white boys, that sure changed didn't it? Even though the story sounded fishy from the beginning, the media ran wild with it. Have you seen the sneering, vicious comments by Nancy Grace on CNN about the alleged perpertrators?
The argument that the press is a capitalist enterprise and wouldn't show restraint on something that would draw ratings is ridiculous. Hollywood is an even more capitalist enterprise and they still churn out anti-war pics that are destined to flop while refusing to make films that depict our troops as heroes, despite enormous financial potential. Ideology trumps profits for many of these people.
No. It does raise doubt about some of the horrific alleged aspects, though.
I don't know why Snopes gave the email story a "true" verdict, when they themselves cast doubt on parts of it.
I think they are limited because nothing is being released to the public from the police dept nor the audtopsy!
What we do know that the MO of this group called New Negro Sun Worship movement seems to fit many of the crimes!
See post #214
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940015/posts?page=214#214