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A number of years ago I read an article in The New York Times that said that most liberals do not want to be told anything in the media that is critical of blacks and homosexuals.
I believe that that is true, and that most of the mainstream media considers that in how it reports the news. In saying this I acknowledge that the mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, there are news stories it avoids reporting, and it shapes other stories. I will illustrate with two examples.
In October 12, 1998 Matthew Shepard was killed by two men he picked up in a bar. This story was in the news for months.
In September 26, 1999 a thirteen year old boy named Jesse Dirkhising was bound, drugged, gagged and sodomized by two adult male homosexuals. He died as a result.
The tragic story of Jesse Dirkhising
That story was given little coverage by the mainstream media. I only learned of it years later.
There was no conspiracy to cover up this crime. Individually organs of the mainstream media decided not to cover it. They must have decided that it would generate hostility to homosexuals.
After Matthew Shepard was killed there was some effort to implicate the religious right. It failed because neither of the killers had any religious affiliation. Nevertheless, those trying to blame the religious right did not care that a connection with the religious right would generate hostility toward Christian conservatives.
In February 26, 2012 George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The first impression most Americans, including me, got of this event was a six o'clock news story on television. It juxtaposed a photograph of of a glowering, menacing George Zimmerman, with that of a sweet, innocent, smiling Trayvon Martin.
We did not know it at the time, but the photograph of George Zimmerman was a mug shot taken after he was accused of a misdemeanor. People seldom look friendly in mug shots. The photograph of Trayvon Martin had been taken when he was several years younger than he was at the time of his death.
The mainstream media could have easily shown photographs of George Zimmerman taken immediately after his encounter with Trayvon Martin. They clearly showed that he had been thrown to the ground, and punched in the face. More recent photographs of Trayvon Martin showed him looking for all the world like the ghetto thug he seems to have been. The mainstream media could have reported that Trayvon Martin had been killed after being suspended from school. It choose not to.
These examples seem characteristic of the way the mainstream media covers news events pertaining to homosexuals and blacks. The mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, it refrains from reporting complex truths that conflict with the preferred narrative of homosexuals and blacks as innocent victims of irrational prejudice.
I believe that that is true, and that most of the mainstream media considers that in how it reports the news. In saying this I acknowledge that the mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, there are news stories it avoids reporting, and it shapes other stories. I will illustrate with two examples.
In October 12, 1998 Matthew Shepard was killed by two men he picked up in a bar. This story was in the news for months.
In September 26, 1999 a thirteen year old boy named Jesse Dirkhising was bound, drugged, gagged and sodomized by two adult male homosexuals. He died as a result.
The tragic story of Jesse Dirkhising
That story was given little coverage by the mainstream media. I only learned of it years later.
There was no conspiracy to cover up this crime. Individually organs of the mainstream media decided not to cover it. They must have decided that it would generate hostility to homosexuals.
After Matthew Shepard was killed there was some effort to implicate the religious right. It failed because neither of the killers had any religious affiliation. Nevertheless, those trying to blame the religious right did not care that a connection with the religious right would generate hostility toward Christian conservatives.
In February 26, 2012 George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The first impression most Americans, including me, got of this event was a six o'clock news story on television. It juxtaposed a photograph of of a glowering, menacing George Zimmerman, with that of a sweet, innocent, smiling Trayvon Martin.
We did not know it at the time, but the photograph of George Zimmerman was a mug shot taken after he was accused of a misdemeanor. People seldom look friendly in mug shots. The photograph of Trayvon Martin had been taken when he was several years younger than he was at the time of his death.
The mainstream media could have easily shown photographs of George Zimmerman taken immediately after his encounter with Trayvon Martin. They clearly showed that he had been thrown to the ground, and punched in the face. More recent photographs of Trayvon Martin showed him looking for all the world like the ghetto thug he seems to have been. The mainstream media could have reported that Trayvon Martin had been killed after being suspended from school. It choose not to.
These examples seem characteristic of the way the mainstream media covers news events pertaining to homosexuals and blacks. The mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, it refrains from reporting complex truths that conflict with the preferred narrative of homosexuals and blacks as innocent victims of irrational prejudice.