The media’s selective coverage has done real harm. It has heightened racial divides and sown distrust of the police in the communities that need them most. Watching the news, you would never guess that the research found that black officers were just as likely as white officers to shoot an unarmed black suspect.
The selective coverage creates the belief that white officers are the problem - they are the ones shooting blacks, presumably because white officers treat black suspects differently than white ones. By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage. Research conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center, of which I am president, on all police shootings from 2013 to 2015 found that while local news coverage will often mention the race of the officer and the suspect, the national coverage is much more selective. While the evidence indicates that black officers are no less likely to shoot suspects than white officers, local news coverage of black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases. The problem is that it gives readers a biased perspective, inflaming prejudice and creating stereotypes. But their selective reporting of it shows that they think race is important when it involves certain races. Of course, the media outlets might honestly not view race as essential to the story.
Possibly the foreign news outlets were just lucky to discover that information.
It could just be that while the American media knows almost everything about this killer, including his name, age, and where he lives, they couldn’t find information on his race. Acknowledging the driver’s and victims’ ethnicity wouldn’t advance their narrative of oppression, so it apparently isn’t newsworthy.
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The rest of the news media seemingly would rather just have people assume that a white driver attacked two black protesters. outlets to mention the race of the driver is. You can find that out over at the U.K.’s Daily Mail.Īmong the few U.S. The American national media also doesn’t note that Kelete’s two victims were white. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kelete. But you’ll find scant mention of the driver’s ethnicity in mainstream media coverage. NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by “ right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.” They quote a researcher about how these right-wingers were “trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement.” Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there’s one thing you won’t learn from their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white. Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.” Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide
It begins when men of God begin to value money and things more than they do truth and intimate fellowship with God through the Holy Spirit. The reason a nation can no longer blush begins, strangely enough, in the pulpits of the land.