Are the news media outlets racist?

Question

This has to do with a question i asked earlier. Maybe out of anger, i questioned the reasons why it's always a black man on the news who is caught on camera, punching an elderly person for their car keys, purse, wheelchair, etc. Now i know that crime is rampant in ALL races, but it seems that we see the blacks doing the most shocking assaults on senior citizens. Can we blame the news media? Fox and CNN show an awful lot of videos of assaults. Do they just focus more on the ones blacks do? Do blacks do a higher number of shocking crimes? On a local channel here in las vegas, there are lots of convienence store robberies caught on tape, from all across the country, but most of the time, they show blacks doing the crimes.

What is your take on the news media, in regards to race?

Answer 1

wow anything other that agreeing would get me labeled as a racist!

I think the networks pander to an agenda and the truth is rarely part of it. I also think it serves liberal needs to show the black community as that most likely to commit apparently desperate crimes to better paint the victim picture the liberal media wants everyone to see.

Answer 2

I always hear the caveat that "blacks commit more crimes per capita." However, if that is true (and I don't personally know what the statistics are and we all know statistics can be fudged), then it stands to reason that overall whites commit more crime.  Therefore, I think you have a very valid point.

There was one news story that said there is more black on white crime than white on black crime.The trouble is that story did not take into account  the % of the population that was white versus the % of the population that was black (or any other factors). The writer of the story could have been biased, misinformed, a racist, or whatever.  But he was a bad reporter that we know for sure.

I'm not sure you can classify all bias as racism (although, there IS an element of defining someone as different). I'm white and I'm not going to vote for Obama.  I don't like his politics.  I'm a Viet Nam veteran and I am not going to vote for McCain. I don't like his politics either. Am I racist or anti-military or anti-age?  I don't think so but I could be accused of all three.    

However, race matters, economic status matters, gender matters, the way you look matters (other than color), your ethnicity and religious affiliation matters, and on and on it goes.  To me someone may be a "young punk" to them I may be an "old codger". When defining our differences becomes a positive rather than a negative, maybe, just maybe things will start to change.  I actually dig America's diversity, if all I did was sit around and look at and talk to people like me all day I would not only be bored to death but I'd go nuts.

Answer 3

i think that people are always scared of the unknown or different from themselves. i dont think the outlets are outright racist.. but some may show they're true feelings indirectly through phrasing.

everyone is different though