Another victim of PC
Letter from Gotham has a frustrating account of the standard racial "whitewash" applied to perpetrators of violent crimes:
This NY Post article explains that he began walking Mrs. Bosenko home from the subway after she was menaced by a “tall white guy” one day. The murderers are described as “male and female…20-something thugs.” The attack “fit a pattern”—in other words, this is not a first-time occurrence. Another account of the murder appears here in the NY Times.
So--you’ve got a pair of dangerous criminals on the loose. Murderers. You are a major city daily. What do you do? Publish as much information about the assailants as the police furnish you with, right? Read on.
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I asked why there was no description of the assailants in the article. She snarled, “because we didn’t get one. They are trying to solve a murder? Do you think we want murderers on the loose?” so I called the cops to verify what she said. I didn't believe her.
I called the NYPD’s public affairs line at 646-610-5370 and they put me through to the Deputy Commissioner’s Publicity Press Office, commonly known as the DCPI, where I got a very pleasant woman who knew immediately which crime I was referring to and looked up the e-mail that they send to all major papers. In the first paragraph is the description: male black, 20s, female black, 20s. She went onto describe the victim’s descriptions too: female white, 37….I cut her off with a thank-you. I'd gotten my answer.
I've commented on this
before, but it bears repeating:
There has been much concern lately with the issue of media bias. Various commentators on the left and right alike have claimed that the media is biased towards the other side. The left's contention that the right controls the US media is based mainly upon the media's connections to big business and its support of free trade. And I agree that on economic issues the media consensus is pro-free trade, which can be seen as pro-right.
But in the end, the right is correct in its charge of bias. Any discussion related to the "fundamental axiom of equality" - the proposition that all humans are genetically equal - falls strongly on the left's side of things. There isn't a newspaper around that questions that axiom publicly, when it reports on issues like:
-crime (Does racial profiling work?)
-education (Is black academic performance due to white racism?)
-corporate policy (Is the EEOC unfair?)
-foreign policy (Will aid to africa work?)
I could come up with more, but you already know that a substantial portion of domestic policy is absolutely off limits to public discussion because it involves discussion of genetics. In this arena the left's lock on debate is absolute , and if you think about how much policy relates to these issues, you'll agree that the leftist view dominates the media.