CBS News tales a break from its saturation coverage of the murder of Gabby Petito to bring up the elephant in the media room:
The discrepancy is even greater among missing women and girls. From January 1 to September 27, the number of Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native and Hawaiian/Pacific Islander women missing were a greater proportion of cases than their respective demographics nationwide.
Hm.
If only there were institutions, with satellites and transmitters and printing presses and cable systems and huge websites, staffed by, I dunno, a pseudo-monastic order of self-appointed high priests of information-relaying, to deal with this imbalance…
How do they know that these “women” identify as women?
MP,
Great point, but how do we know that they identify as Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander?
More to the point, the media has to make as much money as possible on every click-bait story and if the wokesters are not interested in Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander women, why write about them?
I mean, what’s the media about wokeness or profit?
If the racists who subscribe to the NYT and WAPO or CBS, NBC, ABC or NPR don’t want these stories, what’s a “journalist” to do other than write about the racism of the subscribers?
Well, this is just the pattern of the racist, left wing controlled media. Joey Demento has exhibited his racism frequently over his 51 years in congress, yet there was/is no interest in covering those incidents. With the endless hordes of Haitians making their way to invade our country, they have conveniently ignored his view on Haiti from 1983, essentially saying that the country makes no difference to the U.S. I guess that there are not enough “articulate, clean cut and well spoken negroes” among them.
Clearly it makes no sense to compare a socially well-known, middle class woman with poor women living on the fringes of society.
The inability of our media to distinguish between difference in social class and race is driving a lot of the racial tension in the US.
This blindness exists because most of the people working in the media come from middle class and higher backgrounds. They will never admit that their social class and the values they promote are the source of so many of America’s problems.
This is why I never buy the “we just don’t trust the media!” claims, because the people who argue that tend to be heavily reliant on media, just different media. Everything is media these days, even this ridiculous hellsite we choose to read every day.
Customers won’t pay for stories of missing black women, so news media can’t afford to give them the coverage they deserve. Plainly, customer-driven media is the problem. Remove the customer and the problem goes away. All you need is funding.
BBC is the international standard. NPR is the American model. The infrastructure bill is the mechanism.
Inability, MP? Or intentional avoidance?
Inability, jdm. If any MSM journalist wrote a story about the social divide in America being based on social class, as it is, rather than race, it would never be published.
It would be like a member of the Poliburu confessing that the problems of the USSR were due to socialism. If you get that high in an organization, you are incapable of comprehending the truth. The process that got you where you are is designed to weed out truth tellers.