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uberllama42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 11:16 AM
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Another egregious showing by the "liberal media"
There was a shooting outside West Philadelphia High School yesterday. The most anyone will report about it is a story in the Inquirer on like page 8 and an Op/Ed next week asking, "Mayor Street, what are you going to do about all the violence in this city?"

If the same incident had happened at my high school in affluent, white, suburban South-Central Pennsylvania, it would be a majory media event for the next week- the tragic death of a Beautiful Young White Person. Just because violence is more prominent among the poor blacks here in Philly, the media treat it as though it is acceptable. The tacit implication is that the lives of white children are worth more. Our society is compliant toward this kind of violence; subsequently, no one really does anything about it. Wouldn't a liberal media blow violence in black areas out of proportion? Instead the media tailor to the desires of the rich whites. They aren't ideologically motivated, they are profit-driven, plain and simple.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 11:21 AM
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1. It's also a poverty thing
A man in trailer park shoots neighbor for taking last beer, not a news story. A doctor in Posh Spring Estates & Country Club shoots wife for having an affair, national news and made for TV movie.
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 11:27 AM
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2. Agreed - it is an income/class thing primarily. nt
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uberllama42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 01:13 PM
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5. Right- the media are controlled by rich interests
Therefore they care more for the issues of wealthier people. I think if there was truly a massive leftward bias, the media would blow the West Philly story out of proportion.

Who knows, though? This might be evidence of the "Drive-By-Media's" elitism. I'm just a dumb peon, so what the hell do I know?
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 11:36 AM
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3. The one that gets me
When something awful happens in the suburbs around here, the folk proclaim, "I no longer feel safe here!" They seem to feel that people in Marin have more of a right to feel safe than the people who live near the Oakland Coliseum.
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 11:52 AM
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4. I think what it comes down to is that
people always take note of statistical aberrations. A murder in Marin County is highly unusual and people take note - they move there partly because it is so rare, and it is a shock when the statistical anomaly occurs. On the flip side, being by Oakland Coliseum, bad things will happen and when they do, they do not get reported on as much.
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uberllama42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 01:21 PM
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6. Like I said, people become complacent with regards to violence in poor areas
We middle-class whites wall ourselves off in our plastic suburban bubbles, far from violent crime and all the other things that go on in the real world. We feel entitled to an environment where a murder is a statistical aberration. Once we get used to that situation, we don't feel bad about treating murder as something completely out of the ordinary, even though it happens in poor areas all the time. We very carefully set ourselves up in a place where we don't have to worry about the less fortunate and come quite naturally to take the situation for granted.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 05:29 PM
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8. I've heard even worse opinions of people in high crime areas
The typical, "Let them all kill each other that way my taxes ain't paying for their welfare or feeding them in prison".
I wish it was only a bad joke I was making up but sadly and disgustingly it's not.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 02:28 PM
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7. Very true
Bad things do stand out in "good" neighborhoods. However, a sense of entitlement seems to lurk in there as well. I'm actually sympathetic to the fears of the folks in the suburbs. I just wish they had more sympathy for the folks in bad parts of Oaktown.
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