"Not all hate crimes equal in the media"

This is something I already pointed out in regard to the Christian/Newsom murder case, but its unusual to see anyone in the mainstream media acknowledge it. An earlier article on the murders in the Sunday Chicago Tribune prompted a bit of discussion, and one journalist, John Kass, stated the obvious:

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There was little media outcry about the Tennessee murders.

I've been in this business long enough to know that we tap dance around such stories, hesitant, uncomfortable, insecure, vulnerable to an in-house charge of racism for reinforcing ugly stereotypes.

By contrast, hateful white-on-black crime is easy to report as a cultural event. We're secure in it, eager, because we all know our parts as acolytes in the rigidly defined ritual, the victims, reporters, commentators, even the consumers of the news.

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