Why Does It Appear That The Press Can Sometimes Be A Little Backward In Reporting Some Crimes.

[anotheoldgit]

http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/richard-fletcher-white-man-brutally-attacked-by-mob-brutally-ignored-by-media/

http://toprightnews.com/white-man-brutally-beaten-by-mob-of-40-blacks-on-july-4th-but-police-say-its-not-a-hate-crime/

/// I know these two recent cases happened in America, but they didn't even reach our newspapers why not?

It is this type of thing that makes one wonder why some crimes are treated differently by the media and why are they?

[jackthehat]

Another conspiracy...

[RandyMarsh]

Are you really asking why our papers don't report about fights that happen at rap concerts?

[RandyMarsh]

Just for balance, my daughter witnessed a fight at a Nicky Minaj concert in Liverpool, it was 2 white girls and that did not make the papers either.

[Svejk]

Quite right, jack. There is a conspiracy by a common purpose, liberal progressive press to supress stories that don't fit their consensus.
I'm so glad, and somewhat surprised, that you have noticed this disgraceful bias.

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// Are you really asking why our papers don't report about fights that happen at rap concerts? ///

They sometimes do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174742/Rapper-Earl-Sweatshirt-punches-stage-invader-Sydney-concent.html

[dannyk13]

Obviously nobody in America thought it necessary to inform the English press

[jackthehat]

I'm usually 'right on the money', svejk, perhaps your tin-foil hat slipped over your eyes and obscured your vision?

[Gromit]

You've answered your own question.

A crime thousands of miles away that does not involve any Britons, is not at all newsworthy.
The man attacked at Tower Bridge will not be reported in American newspapers or television for the same reason.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

And what is your excuse jack, rose tinted glasses having an effect on your reasoning?

[retrocop]

Gromit
Yet we were supplied with a link from the press to an alleged racist attack in a French park by Svejk earlier. In this day and age distance is no barrier.

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13

/// Obviously nobody in America thought it necessary to inform the English press ///

We now have British press foreign correspondents, now, no need for the Americans to ticker-type the news over to the UK.

[Svejk]

Only 'Black Lives Matter'.

[Baldric]

///We now have British press foreign correspondents, now, no need for the Americans to ticker-type the news over to the UK.///

To be fair, those two stories are hardly newsworthy in the UK are they?
Painful for the victims, but of very little interest this side of the Pond!

[jno]

quite so, Baldric; most of us don't follow Maryland news very closely (despite it having been named after Charles I's wife). But of course those determined to seek out injustice against any particular colour of person can now use the entire internet to do so... as we see.

[Svejk]

We are bombarded with 'black victim' stories from the US.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/27/white-officer-pepper-sprays-crowd-at-black-lives-matter-summit-in-cleveland

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-police-officer-peppersprays-crowd-at-first-ever-black-lives-matter-rally-in-cleveland-10418306.html

[dannyk13]

//We now have British press foreign correspondents, now, no need for the Americans to ticker-type the news over to the UK.//
Obviously none of them thought it worth reporting

[jno]

those stories aren't about the victims, they're about the perpetrators: cops.

[RandyMarsh]

come on Svejk, you had to open up NEWS/WORLD/USA to find that story, that is not bombarding.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// To be fair, those two stories are hardly newsworthy in the UK are they?
Painful for the victims, but of very little interest this side of the Pond! ///

You could say that about blacks in America suffering abuse by white police officers, but we certainly hear very much of those stories, don't we?

[RandyMarsh]

We hear about black people who have been killed by the police.
We don't hear about fights at rap concerts.

I am happy with that balance.