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 ...
Yes, that is true. Before traveling to another city, always do some research on it. It’s not too difficult to find out where the “bad sections” of town are.
I do not defend the mainstream media. They are what they are. They offer a product for sale, and I do not buy their product anymore.
In the old days people would buy newspapers because papers kept you reasonably informed so that you as an individual could make informed decisions relevant to your life and so that you as a citizen could make informed decisions about voting. The news had value. It no longer does.
People continue to buy the mainstream media out of inertia. Or they’re lazy. Perhaps they are even scared of alternative media. I have liberal friends and acquaintances who read the New York Times and listen to NPR. They are shocked that I do not buy these media or read, listen to, or watch them. But I am often shocked about how much news that they haven’t heard of.
Yes, that is true. Before traveling to another city, always do some research on it. It’s not too difficult to find out where the “bad sections” of town are.
I do not defend the mainstream media. They are what they are. They offer a product for sale, and I do not buy their product anymore.
In the old days people would buy newspapers because papers kept you reasonably informed so that you as an individual could make informed decisions relevant to your life and so that you as a citizen could make informed decisions about voting. The news had value. It no longer does.
People continue to buy the mainstream media out of inertia. Or they’re lazy. Perhaps they are even scared of alternative media. I have liberal friends and acquaintances who read the New York Times and listen to NPR. They are shocked that I do not buy these media or read, listen to, or watch them. But I am often shocked about how much news that they haven’t heard of.
Now need to apply census data to that to see how it’s distributed for real. Know anyone versed in GIS?
When one is a complete failure, and black......play the Race Card ;-)
I like it
Give me your email address and I’ll send you what I wanted to send him. LOL It’s an adults only version.
Bingo!!!
Never mind. We already know why.
In Memphis we used to say that you didn't have to worry about which side to take in the assorted race riots that happened there. Your face has already made that decision for you.
Yep. It will be worst for folks living as a minority in the wrong area.
If it were flash mobs of white youths terrorizing some minority you can bet your bottom dollar race would be a central issue in the story.
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