BLACK MASS KILLING

[harry brown]

ON THE  NEWS,   MASS SHOOTING IN  PITTSBURGH, IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD.  5  PEOPLE KILLED.   INCLUDING  PREGNANT   WOMAN/ DONT  KNOW  WHAT COLOR  MURDERERS ARE,  PROBALY   A GANG// AS    WHITE  POLICE  DELIBERATELY     MURDER  BLACK MALES,  DONALD  TRUMP  SOUNDING LIKE   ADOLF HITLER   RESURRECTED   ,  BLACK  PEOPLE     WILL NOT STOP    GENOCIDING  THEIR OWN PEOPLE/

[Pioneer1]

I find it interesting that in a nation that prides itself in declaring everyone innocent until PROVEN guilty in court of law....the names and pictures of crime suspects are routinely displayed all over the screens and papers of the local and national media.
This is especially the case if the suspect is an AfroAmerican or dark Latino.

Black man is SUSPECTED of killing 3 people and you have a picture of him in braids and a white t-shirt looking crazy all over Fox(whatever local affiliate)
White man is CONFIRMED to have killed his wife, 5 kids, and the family dog before turning the gun on himself and burning down the damn house and you have to check 4 or 5 media sources just to find out what race the man was.



We should really investigate the role the media is playing in the seemingly escalating rates of violence in so many cities today and how they seem to over report and sensationalize these acts of violence.

Like most cities, the murder rate in Chicago was dropping steadily right up until the media started hyping up almost every violent weekend and bringing it before a national audience a couple years ago and now it's sky rocketing again.

And silly movies like "Chiraq" ain't helping.

It's a fact known to most journalists that suicides are rarely reported in the media out of concern that reporting on it too much may ENCOURAGE suicidal people to attempt suicide themselves.

Well hell.....why can't they take the same approach to reporting homicides?

[Pioneer1]

The purpose of the news...like much of the media...is not only to make money but to perpetuate progaganda, especially of a social or political nature.

Every news organization whether it's television, radio, paper, or on-line has an "editor".
The editing department...much like the Prosecutor's office for a district....gets to decide what makes the news and what doesn't and how it's presented.

Chicago....like Atlanta...has some of the most educated and wealthy Black people in this nation and is one of the few cities that can boast majority Black wealthy neighborhoods like South Lake Shore and a few others.....but you'd never know this watching the national media's portrayal of Black Chicago.

Like reporting suicides, when they constantly show homicides on television over and over again they contribute to the murder rate going up by de-valuing Black life and desensitizing the public to the death of Black people.
 

[Troy]

@Pioneer1 exactly.  This is one reason I stopped reading the New York Times. They have this bad habit of "reporting" on social problems as if they are only Black problems.  You would never think white people have problems with poverty, murder, obesity, crime, teen pregnancy, drugs, education, or marriage, because they usually show Black people in these situations.  Further you would have a reason to believe Black people are capable of anything important, because they virtually never report on anything positive that Black people do.  For all practical purposes they don't even review books written by Black people.

For all of these reasons, we have to support independent Black Press, so find a newspaper, and pay for a subscription. 

[Pioneer1]

Troy

@Pioneer1 exactly. This is one reason I stopped reading the New York Times. They have this bad habit of "reporting" on social problems as if they are only Black problems. You would never think white people have problems with poverty, murder, obesity, crime, teen pregnancy, drugs, education, or marriage, because they usually show Black people in these situations. Further you would have a reason to believe Black people are capable of anything important, because they virtually never report on anything positive that Black people do.

Journalists tend to be experts at manipulating the public and putting images in their minds through fear and coded language.

When you hear the word "thug"....an image pops into your mind.
When you hear the word "terrorist"...another image pops into your mind.
Just like the 80s when you heard "welfare queen".....an image popped into your mind.

For over a decade, many in right-wing media sources have been using the word "thug" to identify Black suspects to the viewer/reader without overtly calling them such, but as thug is starting to lose it's appeal...
-And Thug Appeal shouldn't be confused with Thug's Passion (Cristal + Alaze)-
....now the new code word the media is using is "felon" to identify the suspect as a Black male.



For all practical purposes they don't even review books written by Black people.

For all of these reasons, we have to support independent Black Press, so find a newspaper, and pay for a subscription.

Well this answers your argument a while back about why so many things in America have to be seen through a racial lense.  If institutions operated by the current majority in this nation  gave everyone their due credit, there would be no need for people to have "Black Awards Shows" and "Black film festivals"

However I'll be the first to admit that the biggest threat to the Black press isn't racism, but the lack of desire for..and in some cases lack of ability to comprehend...serious journalism in much of their targeted Black audience.

Unfortunatly too many of our people would rather be ENTERTAINED than informed, so sensationalism and tabloid type journalism seems to be more attractive then the hard core informative type.

[Cynique]

You can't have it both ways.  Struggling blacks victimized by black on black crime and police brutality would not be happy with too much focus on wealthy blacks especially the ones who don't give back.  Black Lives Matter and all the other black organizations with agendas are very happy to get all the press they can.  

[Pioneer1]

I would look at it from the opposite end.....
If I were a well educated Black woman or man with considerable wealth, I'd be pretty offended that the media tends to ignore people like me, but every night they're doing a story on felons who commit heinous crimes upon early release.
Tonight's story features Tyrone with only 2 teeth and Jamal with dookie-braids, both were born and raised in East St. Louis and neither can speak English.


On top of that, regardless as to how many Blacks are being vicimized most of the victims they show on television tend to be WHITE anyway.  We know that most criminals and victims are of the same race but you wouldn't know that watching the U.S. media.

Usually if the victim is Black....the most they'll show is their mother crying and being held back.
But if the victim is White....they'll dig up 40 year old prom pictures and other endearing photos and mention the 2 years the victim may have spent in the Peace Corp just to draw sympathy from the viewing audience.