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Related: About this forumx-Post: "Cable News Coverage of Ferguson Misleading & Offensive To Black Community"
Its not a shocker that there was no justice for Mike Brown, because we just experienced this heartache a few years ago after enduring the loss of Trayvon Martin, another unarmed Black teen murdered. But the insensitivity from networks like Fox News and MSNBC are just offensive.
While there has been tension and looting, there has also been so much peace and unity. Unfortunately, the latter has been completely ignored because the more interesting hook is black people looting Black people going crazy. The way the media has sensationalized the stories are ridiculous. Of course the audience is eating it all up, and we wonder why some people outside of culture think its okay to shoot us.
According to Philly.com Fox News Channel and MSNBC immediately retreat to their ideological corners, while CNN despite seeking to remain even-handed again fell into its more lamentable habits, filling time for hours with a Breaking News headline that became increasingly absurd the longer the channel went without any additional news.
What again emerged was cables near-addiction to conflict, which the unrest and looting that followed the announcement yielded in abundance. And while one can admire the long hours and bravery exhibited by on-the-scene reporters under trying circumstances, the nature of this sort of coverage yields such a narrow aperture their hard work produces heat, perhaps, but scant illumination.
While there has been tension and looting, there has also been so much peace and unity. Unfortunately, the latter has been completely ignored because the more interesting hook is black people looting Black people going crazy. The way the media has sensationalized the stories are ridiculous. Of course the audience is eating it all up, and we wonder why some people outside of culture think its okay to shoot us.
According to Philly.com Fox News Channel and MSNBC immediately retreat to their ideological corners, while CNN despite seeking to remain even-handed again fell into its more lamentable habits, filling time for hours with a Breaking News headline that became increasingly absurd the longer the channel went without any additional news.
What again emerged was cables near-addiction to conflict, which the unrest and looting that followed the announcement yielded in abundance. And while one can admire the long hours and bravery exhibited by on-the-scene reporters under trying circumstances, the nature of this sort of coverage yields such a narrow aperture their hard work produces heat, perhaps, but scant illumination.
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x-Post: "Cable News Coverage of Ferguson Misleading & Offensive To Black Community" (Original Post)
Jamaal510
Nov 2014
OP
Someone coined the term "riot porn" and a lot of us white folks are sick of it too.
OffWithTheirHeads
Nov 2014
#1
CNN and Fox were close to providing Molotov cocktails for free, they were so lusting for violence.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2014
#2
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)1. Someone coined the term "riot porn" and a lot of us white folks are sick of it too.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. CNN and Fox were close to providing Molotov cocktails for free, they were so lusting for violence.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)3. There was a Toon ...
that reflected this. It showed camera crews pushing through a large crowd of people carrying banners ... to get a couple people carrying/throwing a rock.