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| KLXVER said: You are being ridiculous. The "studies" you provide doesnt take the time a story gets on the news into account. Let me give you some examples. Ill give you 8 stories from this year. Ill divide them into white on black stories(group A) and black on white stories(group B). Now Im sure you have heard about all the cases in group A. They have been talked about a lot in the news. There has been several panels talking about and analyzing the events. Several hours over several days. The white people are called white supremacists, racists, Karens, whats wrong with the country and other awful things. Now if you havent heard much about the cases in group B, I cant really blame you. The stories are "reported on" with some text going by on the bottom of the screen while the newscaster are talking about something completely different. Or they might get a short article on the news channels website. Or if they are very lucky, they will get a 2 minute news piece that airs once. As you can see I dont have much info on the cases in this group because theres not much info to find. Now yes, all the cases have technically been reported on, but they are very skewed towards one group. Its unfair and its very dangerous. It gives people the perception that one group of people are almost the only ones committing crimes. And it causes other groups to rise up against them. Thats why we are seeing these violent protests and black people walking in big groups with automatic weapons. They believe they are under attack. |
You could similarly find hundreds of cases of white on black crime that were not reported on nationally. The determining factor regarding whether something is reported on nationally is whether it holds national relevance, not the race of the offender. To say "when a white man kills a black man it is national news" is fundamentally not true. It is only a small fraction of cases which get reported on nationally, no matter the offender.
You also fail to acknowledge many things about the racism within the national news, such as how these individuals are portrayed. Again, black suspects and even black victims tend to be portrayed as thugs by the news media. We regularly have the news reporting on previous criminal charges against black victims, or other bits of their history to justify the act. Take the Ahmaud Arbery case. While this was a case that received national attention, that attention was far from racist against white people. Here is a good article regarding that case:
https://fair.org/home/media-smeared-ahmaud-arbery-after-his-lynching/
Commonly, the national news portrayed Arbery as a criminal and brought up his criminal history despite not having any relevance to the case at hand. Even when reporting on white on black crime, the news finds a way to criminalize the black victims.
Further, for you to assert that these stories give the impression that one group is committing most crimes, that is nonsense. Every study I've ever seen regarding perceptions of criminality have showed a large overrepresentation of black and minority individuals. I have seen no evidence of the effect you are stating. Local news is much more relevant to an individuals perception of crime in their area, and as I've shown, the local news regularly and consistently shows a bias towards portraying black suspects over white suspects. You cannot ignore the large importance of local news in this question, especially if you are making a statement regarding the effects of this reporting.
