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It is well known that homosexual pederastic assaults are covered up by our liberal media. Does anyone remember the ad nauseum coverage that was given to Matthew Sheppard (who propositioned straight men for sex) versus the utter silence regarding the toture sex/murder of young Jesse Dirkhising? Even worse, the attempted sodomization and murder of 10 year old Jeffrey Curley got even less play by our culturally Communist media.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics proves year after year that 90% of all interracial violent crime involves a white victim and a non-white criminal, and that non-whites are at least twice as likely as whites to commit racially motivated hate crimes.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cvusst.htm

But what is, far and away, the most well-known interracial hate crime in recent memory? The death of James Byrd. And how did it become the most well-known? According to Michael Kelly, the story is a perfect fit in one of the liberal media's favorite story templates.

Compare the media's coverage of the killing of Kevin Shifflet to their coverage of the killing of Robert Byrd. Byrd, of course, was dragged on a chain behind a pickup truck by three white racists until he was dismembered. There's no way you missed that story unless you were raised in a barrel and just let out.

Kevin Shifflet? Who's Kevin Shifflet? You never heard of him. That's because he was white, and a black man killed him simply because he was white. Here is a more comprenhesive listing of hate crimes that you never heard about, because the killers were black and their victims were white:

http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/hatecrimes.html

There is no better example of left-wing media bias than a comparison between the stories of Matthew Shepard and Jesse Dirkhising.

http://www.covenantnews.com/dirkhising.htm

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Wrapping up the Dirkhising story

By Brent Bozell April 2, 2001

You could call it a forgotten ending to a forgotten story. On March 22, a jury in Bentonville, Ark., convicted 23-year-old Joshua Brown of first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising. On Sept. 26, 1999, Brown and his lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 39, bound, gagged and drugged the skinny, long-haired boy and raped him with objects until he died of "positional asphyxiation."

Let the record show this is a story the national press has deliberately chosen to spike. The national media's ongoing, see-no-evil campaign of calculated ignorance on the Dirkhising story stands in stark contrast to both its perpetual exploitation of crimes against children and its campaign to smear the religious right as the killers of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.

Iconoclastic gay journalist Andrew Sullivan recently arrived at the scene of the discrepancy in the New Republic: "In the month after Shepard's murder, Nexis recorded 3,007 stories about his death. In the month after Dirkhising's murder, Nexis recorded 46 stories about his.

In all of last year, only one article about Dirkhising appeared in a major mainstream newspaper, the Boston Globe. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ignored the incident completely. In the same period, the New York Times published 45 stories about Shepard and the Washington Post published 28. This discrepancy isn't just real. It's staggering."

It's beyond staggering. It is nauseating.

Washington Times reporter Robert Stacy McCain tried to discern why not one network (with the typical exception being Fox News) has covered the story. A spokesman for ABC said that the network had been "watching the trial and will continue to monitor it." A CNN flack assured the world that, at her network, "we've been monitoring the trial." How comforting. CBS had the best excuse: "Every day we have 22 minutes to fill ... (and during the trial) the overall editorial judgment was that it couldn't fit into the broadcast that day."

These are the same networks that also monitored yet somehow found the time to report literally hundreds of stories on Jon Benet Ramsey.

Sullivan agreed that this discrepancy is a result of the media's sensitivity to gay-left politics. The Shepard murder was the hook for selling a raft of "hate crime" and other legislation, while the Dirkhising murder would only "feed anti-gay prejudice." Gay-left activists didn't just promote Shepard and ignore Dirkhising. They have urged their followers to shut this "insensitive" story down in the press.

In 1999, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation advised action against Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby's Shepard-Dirkhising comparison: "Jacoby uses his voice at the Globe to inappropriately contrast them and manufacture a notion of media bias. Please tell the Globe that this type of insensitivity does not belong in a newspaper that has a record of treating lesbian and gay issues in a fair and accurate way."

For the rest of the story, click on the link:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/printbb20010402.shtml

This excerpt is posted under the fair use exception for education and discussion purposes only. Not for commercial use.

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Here's an article by David Horowitz, touching on both the Shifflet/Byrd disparity in media coverage and the Shepard/Dirkhising disparity:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz012301.asp

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo041001.asp

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin031601.asp

http://www.thenewrepublic.com/040201/trb040201.html

http://www.mediaresearch.org/columns/newscol/col20010329.html

http://www.frontpagemag.com/pi_crimes/dirkhising04-28-00.htm

Thanks for the links. Excellent.

"In all of last year, only one article about Dirkhising appeared in a major mainstream newspaper, the Boston Globe. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ignored the incident completely. In the same period, the New York Times published 45 stories about Shepard and the Washington Post published 28. This discrepancy isn't just real. It's staggering."

It isn't just staggering. It's a press campaign, intended to batter us to our knees. So to speak.

Thanks for the post of the Bozell article, he finds some good illustrations of the massive bias of mainstream media at work.

In another article about the Dirkhising incident, Bozell recalled finally cornering a mainstream editor (from the WashPo, IIRC) and cross-examining him about why they spiked the Dirkhising story. The lame, but utterly revealing, answer given up at length: "It doesn't resonate." (Emphasis added)

Which just about said it all.

BTTT.