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When race is relevant in news coverage
Chicago Tribune ^ | 6/10/2011 | Gerould W. Kern

Posted on 06/12/2011 5:29:33 AM PDT by DH

This week the Chicago Tribune published several news stories and related columns about assaults by groups of youths in the Streeterville area of downtown Chicago. More coverage appears Sunday.

A number of readers have asked why we have not included racial descriptions of the assailants and the victims in these incidents.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; correctness; cwii; cwiiping; politics; race
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One of the best example of biased news I have ever run across. It's only the beginning and as the current Marxist regime tightens the noose over freedom of speech and forces censorship in the name of "hate and thought crimes" we get fed more and more lies and distortions by our pseudo "free press."

Gotta read the article.

1 posted on 06/12/2011 5:29:40 AM PDT by DH
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If the race of all perpetrators was printed the public would become aware of the outrageously high percentage of blacks involved in crime. Can’t have that. It’s racist.


2 posted on 06/12/2011 5:32:37 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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Where I live there is a large democrat population. There are crime reports of recent crimes that avoid mentioning race. “Be on the lookout for 2 six foot males on foot last seen...”

Is it worth endangering the public to please the PC watchers?
Don’t we need to know relevant information to protect ourselves?
Might a witness come forward if they had basic identifying description?


3 posted on 06/12/2011 5:35:07 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Scotsman will be Free

It also explains why, if a politician’s commits a crime and the party is not mentioned in the first paragraph or two, you know he’s a Democrat.


4 posted on 06/12/2011 5:36:57 AM PDT by Richard from IL
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We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story.

When the criminals are real close to 100% members of one race, that should be considered relevant. It should scream out, "Hey, there's a problem here!"

5 posted on 06/12/2011 5:37:00 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last (retired Dec 1999))
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Had it been a group of whites assaulting a black...

National news lead story.

Newsweek and Time covers on white racism.

Talk shows address it.

Al and Jesse and other race pimps march.

Group of blacks target ONLY whites for assaults?

Local news only.

Race wasn’t a factor.

No hate crime.

Justice Department, as stated now on their website (!!!), doesn’t care.


6 posted on 06/12/2011 5:40:38 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Exactly so.


7 posted on 06/12/2011 5:41:58 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story.

Translation - we only reference race when a whitey does it.

8 posted on 06/12/2011 5:50:29 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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As I have written many times (never published) to the Waco Trib, they do a disservice and endanger the public every time they withhold information on an un-apprehended perp.

I have also pointed out that they would share some blame were I to put two in the chest of some poor black man seeking directions at a traffic light and they had failed to tell me the current rash of car jackings was being perpetrated by Asian dwarfs.....

9 posted on 06/12/2011 5:57:04 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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Reporters used to report. Remember, “Who, what, where, why, when and how?”

Now these PC MSM rags are in the business of protecting us from un-PC news.

No wonder the dinosaur MSM is dying. They can’t “shield” us from the truth anymore, not in the era of the internet, talk radio and FOX.


10 posted on 06/12/2011 5:58:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
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To: Scotsman will be Free
Exactly. Their statement about relevancy is horse puckey. If gangs of black youths are roaming around collectively mugging people the description is just as relevant as the location in arming people with the information they need to make informed decisions about their safety. The same would hold true if they were Caucasian, Asian or Latino.
11 posted on 06/12/2011 6:00:44 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: DH; Eaker; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ApesForEvolution; aragorn; ...
CW2 Ping

Race will be one of the worst aggravating factors in any CW2 scenario in the USA.

12 posted on 06/12/2011 6:00:44 AM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
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I’ve not followed this story at all, but just reading the Chicago Jokeume’s article told me all I need to know about the race of the perps.

Liberals are soooooo transparent.

Libs, most of we conservatives can outthink you after we’re three days in the grave. Just give us the facts and we can figure it out. After all, we’re the ones that gave you science. You gave us marxism. Go figure which group is more capable of judgement.


13 posted on 06/12/2011 6:01:54 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DH; Eaker; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ApesForEvolution; aragorn; ...
CW2 Ping

Race will be one of the worst aggravating factors in any CW2 scenario in the USA.

14 posted on 06/12/2011 6:02:10 AM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Be careful about disparaging Holder’s people.


15 posted on 06/12/2011 6:03:13 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe ( "Failure to speak out against evil is evil itself" - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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Since Obama can claim to be “Black” I would imagine there has been enough interbreeding that they can claim “White” or “Hispanic”, etc., as the race of the perpetrators.


16 posted on 06/12/2011 6:05:16 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Travis McGee

I defer to the all knowing, all seeing “cube”...


17 posted on 06/12/2011 6:05:52 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: Travis McGee

The collapse of the economy will pretty much ignite a race war, when the welfare class stops getting it’s free meals.

I feel that a united GOP behind a true reformer instead of a RINO is the best bloodless solution to fix this country.

However, that might push Soros into dropping the economic Barakolypse bomb before Nov. 2012 to suspend the elections.


18 posted on 06/12/2011 6:08:48 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe ( "Failure to speak out against evil is evil itself" - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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I like it when they play the race card....... shows them to be nothing more than what they were born with after all those years. Be they of any color, race , creed or origin.

They out themselves to be helpless and dumb as a new born babe with a diaper full of crap.

My opinion.


19 posted on 06/12/2011 6:12:34 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: stevie_d_64
The CW2 Cube: Mapping the Meta-terrain of Civil War Two


20 posted on 06/12/2011 6:13:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
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