Gee, it seems Fox felt her giggling, “I hit this white man” comment was worth reporting but both MSNBC and CNN didn’t.
So which group are you accusing of bias? (Just so we all know who to be mad at.)
I didn’t see giggling in the Fox account of what happened.
MSNBC saw fit to tell us that she went home and had sex with her boyfriend.
Which is more sensational?
Is this a rant or a debate?
What is the bias? The guy was white right? And I didn’t see the “giggling” part either. Matter of fact, the photo was a woman in tears. Not being sympathetic or anything but I didn’t see giggles.
I’m not sure that it’s fair to accuse the media of bias in this case.
They seem to be basing their reports on information contained in the arrest warrant affidavit.
the giggling alledgedly happend when she spoke of the incident at the party.
(disclaimer - I found this case to be profoundly disturbing, to allow the man to just lay there, for however long, and die is beyond belief).
I don’t find the ‘gigling’, tho to be significant - many people laugh inappropriately at ‘geez, can you believe what stupidity I did?’ sort of thing, I don’t necessarily believe the giggling shows her to be a heartless miscreant. Leaving him to die was sufficient.
(aside)OTOH, I also find it interesting to note - the picture of the deceased certainly is a few years old and I’d wager, not at all like he appeared as a homeless person. Not that it makes it any better what she did - there was a case here where a homeless man died in police custody, and at first, the paper showed only his most recent mug shot, where he seemed wild eyed and crazed, his family submitted a picture later on from before his mental illness struck.
The giggling was mentioned in a Fox News account different from the one cited in the OP. Unfortunately, the link to this other cite no longer works. However, that article said
I would guess that the question of bias may relate to how this item would have been reported if the races had been reversed.
I saw the link to the affidavit after I posted.
It’s hard for me to imagine how something this bizarre would be reported differently. I don’t remember the early local coverage of the incident mentioning either of the people’s skin color.
december, if you can decipher the OP it looks like you should translate it for the rest of us. But, if the point is as you think, I still think it is more sensational to note that she got out of her car, leaving a man dying in the windshield, to have sex with her boyfriend. I can more easily imagine the giggle was a nervous giggle than I can describe her actions immediately after the accident.
Her supposed giggling isn’t really the point. It’s that the media (except for Fox News) didn’t mention the comment at all.
And had the races been reversed and had she supposedly said, “I hit this black guy” not only would it have been widely reported, it would have been labeled a ‘hate crime’ by now.
[Michael Palin]
This isn’t even an argument!
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Hail Ants, do you have some reason other than cynicism to believe that?
It’s not surprising at all. These reporters are not all rehashing stuff from the same press release or court records. They have sources that tell them somewhat different stories. They get bits and pieces, a good deal of it wrong. I’d be MORE surprised if ALL the media reported a single detail like this. That would indicate a single source was widely leaking stuff with some particular spin in mind.
Is too! 
Since I live in the area and keep up with the local media, I’ll throw this out:
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram mentioned the giggling and sex-wiith-the-boyfriend part of the story.
The Dallas Morning News did not.
The DMN is considered conservative on its editorial page; The Star-Telegram, a bit more liberal by Texas standards.
I leave it up to the SDMB to sort that out.
Well, I have to say that I saw the Foxnews.com story that the OP refers to, and it definitely felt to me like “Look what this black woman did to this poor white man!” race-baiting. I’m not really sure if it’s because Fox News was the first I’d seen of this part of the story, or if it was an expectation I’d built up about Fox News, or a combination of the two.
I would, however, like to encourage folks to do what oliversarmy did: post any data you have on just how widespread this point is. Is there any media self-censorship going on, to avoid precisely the thought I mentioned above…?
I agree with Leaper – when I saw the foxnews.com listing, my immediate conclusion was that they were just happy to report a supposed reverse-discrimination case, showing once more how whites are supposedly the most discriminated against group. If she had said something like “I was looking for white people to run down” then they would have a case, but from what the article said she only mentioned his race in passing as part of a description.
She described him as “a man”. I’m surprised that Fox didn’t also latch onto this as more evidence of feminist discrimination against males.
But your point is undermined by the fact that it WAS reported in some sources, just not all sources. Another source was mentioned beside Fox. Maybe it’s Fox that’s biased?
Perhaps the other sources did not feel that the possibility that she giggled (which looks like it is in dispute) was important. Or that meant something other than what you are attributing it to. Or that the source of that information was not credible, and decided to pass, or to wait until a more credible witness was found.
I wondered if they left it out because it amounts to hearsay.
Seems doubtful cazzle, admissions are technically hearsay but have always been considered to be admissible. They are routinely reported if relevant.
Given that the statement provides no evidence that her actions were predicated on the victim’s race if there is bias Fox would be the most likely to be the guilty party. Of course, contrary to Goldberg’s thesis, a single data point is pretty much meaningless.
The Fox story reported neither the sex nor the alleged drug use, whereas some of the ‘liberal’ sources did.