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Teeqoz on 11 February 2015
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BMaker11 said:
thegamerpad said:
FentonCrackshell said:
"You peope" can minimize the lack of reporting all you want but if a Muslim person would've killed 3 non-Muslim young people it definitely would've made national news. We all know the media has an agenda. It's the same way they report white kids gunning down blacks but no reports when whites are gunned down by cops. It's the same way they'll show blacks rioting in the streets but don't show whites doing it. They know what sells. They know what will get people riled up and angry. Not talking about 3 innocent, young, murdered Muslims won't get the bubbas in a tizzy like if 1 Muslim were to kill 3 young whites in the name of Allah.

Nearly every instance of a crime will be national news one way but be an obscure link in the bottom-right corner of a web page in another. Natalie Holloway was a pretty, smart blonde who went missing and was murdered in Aruba and to this day it's still news. Stepha Henry was a pretty, smart black girl who went missing in Miami and was found murdered. CNN bumped the interview about Stepha Henry with the Miami police chief because they needed the space to report that Paris Hilton was to begin her 3 day stint in jail. Young men of all ages and races go missing everyday. No mention of them anywhere outside of the Walmart bulletin board. But Madeline McCann, a European toddler, goes missing in Europe and our U.S. news stations carry it like nothing else matters. So yeah, this story would've been minimized no matter what. Keep telling yourself that.

Just curious, give me an incident where white people were rioting in the US and it wasn't reported?  Also, as the post above yours said...this is on all the major news sites.  It's the top story on CNN  lol

It's the top story now, because it blew up on social media with people saying "hey, why isn't this being reported on?". The event happened yesterday, and it wasn't "breaking news" or anything (except for local news). Whereas things like....Anders Brehvik, Ferguson, Malaysia airlines missing, etc. were instantaneous headlines. 

And about the rioting, if I pull up a news article of white people rioting, that'd kinda disqualify it from it not being reported on (but that would just prove his point if I couldn't find any articles. Because that would mean that the media doesn't show it when white people do it). What Fenton was saying was that it doesn't get "blown up" and become a part of the national discussion like when black people do it.  

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/white-people-rioting-for-no-reason.html

In none of those instances were they called "thugs" or "savages" or were they condemned for "making white people look bad". In the local news where these things happened, they're called "revelers" and that they "had a little too much fun". And it stopped being news after about 12 hours


Is it weird that those things were instant headlines? I don't mean to "downplay" the murder of three students, but when 

*A guy flips batshit crazy and kills 91 people, and blows up a car bomb right outside the norwegian government and goes to a political camp and shoots dozens of kids down to the age of 14

*A series of riots happen in Ferguson, which eventually escalated to shop looting and stuff, there were also gunshots fired. Add to that the fact that these riots occured because of racial discrimination (Michael Brown got shot).

*A plane with 227 passengers dissapears in the middle of nowhere with no trace

It's not weird that those are instantaneous headlines, whereas the murder of three students, however unfortunate and sad, is not "that big a deal" compared to those.