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| abb | Jul 1 2009, 05:25 AM |
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http://www.myfedgrants.com/federal-grants/when-the-press-isnt-accountable-you-cant-expect-it-from-the-government/2009/07 snip Still, the power to avoid reporting a story on a national scale remains a formidable one, such as the latest Duke rape case. We all know the first one. A black stripper accuses the mostly white Duke lacrosse team of raping her. Despite the fact that her story has holes that a 747 could be flown through by a drunken pilot, an ambitious D.A. pursues the case in the press, which is only too eager to declare the young men guilty. Their names were ruined, and their academic careers destroyed before the case unravelled, and the D.A. was facing charges himself, and yet, this was all ok because the real victims were perceived to be privileged whites. Now, a much more heinous case has emerged(here and here…go read them, really, you should know), one which really does have racial implications, and could also be perceived as dangerous to the newly-minted institution of gay adoption, but because the story could be damaging to the story the “Deciders” have dictated, namely that there should be no impediment to gays adopting children, regardless of race, this story is largely unreported in the old media. It certainly isn’t as sexy to the reporters, who are probably afraid of the OUTRAGE! likely to come from the usual suspects. I suspect that this is not unusual. I imagine that there are number to true OUTRAGES! that never squint in the bright light of the old media scrutiny, and its willingness to co-opt itself in the area of political reporting means that the only ones who can hold government accountable now is us, and that is a tragedy of Homeric proportions. |
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| Blog and Media Roundup - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 · DUKE LACROSSE - Liestoppers | |
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