Why is big media ignoring two black teens killing a Pakistani man?

chris155au · Apr 15, 2021

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Well that's not what you originally asked me, which story do I think is more deserving of coverage. You asked:

chris155au said: ↑
Are you actually trying your best to say that it was a more newsworthy story than the one in this thread?
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And the answer was that I had not been trying to do anything of the kind, and was curious where you would have gotten such an idea.

Neither is a story of major importance, but that doesn't mean they are not worth reporting. As I'm sure I've mentioned, news is also entertainment. What Sunday newspaper doesn't have the Funnies (comic strips)? As well as a crossword puzzle, Dear Abbey (advice columnist), my local paper has an Ask the Doctor type column, as well as a chess column. And let's not forget about travel sections, even Sports is not really IMPORTANT, "news."

So, as I said before, they are editorial decisions; it can't really be said, objectively, whether they should be included, or which one is more important. I mean, should the Sunday Funnies include Beetle Bailey, or Hi & Lois, or both? What about Blondie, or Andy Capp? It's a matter of preference.

I remember news making a big deal, a few years back, of some kid who was trapped after falling into a well, clear across the country from me. Why should I spend time watching that? But many people love that kind of live drama. It's entertaining, for them.

The two stories you are talking about are more relevant than the kid in the well. I explained how effectively the dog-walking/911 story illustrated public belief about police racism, regardless if you think the woman was mistaken or not; she is far from alone in her perception. I never read her apology letter, but now I'm getting curious as to what she might have said.

It is actually the detail which I'd either not focused on, or forgotten, about the other story that provides its editorial force. I only remembered it as a story of privileged kids, from some exclusive school, who had no appreciation or respect for traditions that were foreign to them. But when one adds in the Make America Great Again hat, and consider that it was an old, Native American, drumming & chanting in a, presumably, traditional style, it crystallizes the ugly ironies, of this, "American pride," being also a source of belittlement of other cultures & people which seem foreign, even when they descend from the original Americans. The way those kids mocked the man, now makes it hard for me not to consider a comparison to the way some of the first Europeans, in North America, regarded the native inhabitants.

I really don't see what was so wrong about national media covering either of these stories.
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