I’m not sure that’s really a matter of opinion anymore, actually.
(Though admittedly it’s long since ceased to be news, too.)
OMG! The ‘white lady killed’ is just mentioned in passing while the black lady killed is center pieced.
Have you activated the KKK Phone List? Is the ‘Lynch Squad’ on the case…?
No, YOU don’t read past the headlines. Not everyone is as fucking stupid as you, fortunately.
Other articles explain why one death was more “newsworthy” than the other. Oluwatoyin Salau, Victoria Sims: Timeline of disappearance and death Salau had been missing for much longer, after having tweeted that she’d been sexually assaulted, and a search had been underway for over a week and was widely reported. Sims had only gone missing a couple days before her body was found with Salau’s. She wasn’t already a news item. Now she is.
Sorry you little bitch but you’re wrong again:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/16/six-in-10-of-you-will-share-this-link-without-reading-it-according-to-a-new-and-depressing-study/?outputType=amp
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/example-of-media-bias/why-headlines-matter-2/
Seriously think about how poorly informed Americans are about their own system of government or the constitution, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that most people only read headlines, especially on social media.
The accused in this case was not convicted of murder, so it wouldn’t be appropriate to link him to a murder in the headline without lots of qualifications, which you can’t put in a headline.
Um what? All these cops that have been killing people have certainly been in headlines or at least had their picture appear along with the headline, and they haven’t been convicted either.
Look I’m not saying CNN is the only news source that is slanted or biased, they clearly all are, but the thread was started about CNN and that’s why I brought it up.
Another interesting thing among American news readers is that they can’t always tell the difference between facts and opinions and I think a lot of these online news sites play into this with the way they present articles, even from a visual standpoint.
First of all, the person in question here wasn’t the killer, he handed the knife to the killer. Second of all, he was twelve years old at the time and 14 now, so that’s why his face and name is being kept out of the news. If the cops that had been killing people were also 14 years old, I have no doubt their identities would also have been protected.
Maybe you should read past the headlines.
This is a reasonable complaint.
When “straight” news articles are intermingled with analysis (often not prominently labeled) it contributes to the impression that the medium in question is biased.
Better to have an editorial/op-ed section and raise hell there.
I’m old enough to remember when nightly network news on TV would pause for an EDITORIAL. This was usually serious stuff and you’d pay attention, especially if Cronkite was getting pissy about something.
I think you’re talking about a different news story than I am, the one I’m talking about has said nothing about a 14 year old.
I’m talking about the murder that this thread is about. What does your article have to with:
Yet I answered you in post #44 and you haven’t responded.
You posted a reply to me so I thought it was about the story I brought up, I wasn’t talking about the story in the OP, just another CNN headline since the thread was about CNN. I guess you were but I’m not sure why you responded to my post then.
Well I disagree that one was more newsworthy than the other, they were directly connected, they were killed by the same guy!
But anyway, I accept you feel differently.
One had been in the news for a week with a frightening, lurid backstory. The other one had not.
Can you walk me through your logic from that article you posted to your comment about the police that I quoted above? Here it is again: