The Second Duke Rape Case

• May 23, 2007

John Leo has a terrific story on the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom media blackout. You’ll remember they’re the white couple that was kidnapped and treated horribly before they were murdered. Of course the story didn’t get national attention because the people arrested for the crime are black while the victims were white. It just doesn’t match the media’s template so they just aren’t going to cover it.
The article is definitely worth reading but I found out about another curious media blackout that I hadn’t caught before.

A recent example is the “second rape case in Durham.” In this eerie reversal of the Duke lacrosse story, a girl was allegedly raped in the bathroom of a Duke fraternity house during a party. North Carolina’s News & Observer said the suspect being sought was in “his late teens or early 20s, about 6 foot 1 and wearing a do-rag, a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans.” However, the story failed to mention that the suspect was black, the alleged victim is white, and the fraternity, initially unnamed, is African-American.

True that wouldn’t generally be national news since the it wasn’t at a “Team Party” (although who really cares about the Lacrosse team anyway). But it should have been news because of the huge coverage the Lacrosse team prosecution was getting. In fact as Leo points out even the local media completely bailed on the race in the second crime when it was of paramount importance in the first.
Leo’s conclusion is spot on:

Before long, more news consumers will conclude that even crime news is in effect being politicized. Is this any way to protect an industry in trouble?

Does the news media think they can control what people think?

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Rob selected this gem from John Leo’s column:

Before long, more news consumers will conclude that even crime news is in effect being politicized. Is this any way to protect an industry in trouble?

Yes, it is spot-on, but vastly understated.

The Leftstream media long ago abandoned any semblence of objective journalism and have shifted to simply being the Party Organ for propaganda.

That’s why guns are always bad, despite the fact that gunowners stop rapes, assaults and murders 2.5 million times a year, and gun control is good, even though it’s always been in effect where mass public shootings have taken place.

That’s why the Color of Crime is politicized, why Sandy Burglar gets a pass and Scooter Libby gets reamed, Clinton can rape at will and Clarence Thomas almost got Borked for making an off-color comment to Anita Hill.

The list goes on, and if you care to examine the way the Newscookie has crumbled over the last 25 years or so, it has always favored the Leftist party line and served as a social corrosive against Mainstream America.

I just hope enough people catch on in time to force outfits like C(BS) , ABC, CNN and NBC into Chapter 11. I hope that a growing awareness causes the shambling corpse of the Gray Lady to finally give up the ghost and the Washington Post, aka Pravda-on-the-Potomac, goes belly up.
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Did it get extra coverage because of the racial aspects say over a Robert Blake story?

It was a two-fer! OJ was both a celebrity who was both a minor movie star and a sports figure.
Dave

You’ll remember they’re the white couple that was kidnapped and treated horribly before they were murdered. Of course the story didn’t get national attention because the people arrested for the crime are black while the victims were white. It just doesn’t match the media’s template so they just aren’t going to cover it.

OJ Simpson on line one, Whistler.
robert108

Dave: In case you don’t know, in the OJ Simpson case, people were actually killed; ditto for the Channon Christian case.
On the other hand, the Duke lacrosse case was a false accusation! Get the difference? The leftie template referred to is the “white people oppress black people”, in case you didn’t notice.
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[the perpetrator is in] his late teens or early 20s, about 6 foot 1 and wearing a do-rag…the suspect was [is not was] black, the alleged victim is white, and the fraternity, initially unnamed, is African-American.

Example of do-rag:

Rapper “Slim Thug” wearing a do-rag

I’m declaring Jihad on this bullshit!
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Having read a few of the details of the case, count me as one who is glad that this case is not getting national coverage. Anyone who can read these details without becoming physically ill has (sorry) some major league problems., and as long as the perpetrators get the death penalty for this, it is sufficient for me.
robert108

Does the news media think they can control what people think?

Absolutely. It worked with the Tet Offensive, and on many occasions since then.
Seth Yantiss

I am appalled that this hasn’t gotten more coverage from the press!
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a black man accused of killing two white people

OJ was black? Next you’ll be telling me that Michael Jackson is black!
Dave

When the most widely covered trial the history of American journalism was that of a black man accused of killing two white people, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that the American media avoids these stories because they don’t meet their “template.”

Bottom line is that people get raped and murdered all the time. Sometimes everyone overreacts and we hear about it on the news for the next 6 months. If the producers believe it will get them more viewers, they’ll start covering these stories too. I really don’t see much of an angle on this Cannon Christian story…it’s not as though the outcome of the trial is in any real question. What sort of stories would you like to hear?
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Umm, OJ was a celebrity before the murder wasn’t he?
Seth Yantiss

I am appalled that this hasn’t gotten more coverage from the press! as compared to the Duke Lacrosse story, that is.
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Dave, maybe you’ve got a point but my recollection of it wasn’t that OJ was black but that this celebrity committed such a violent crime.

Did it get extra coverage because of the racial aspects say over a Robert Blake story? I don’t know Robert Blake hadn’t been on TV for a long time.

I was more comparing this story with say the Byrd Lynching case, Sheppard gay lynching case, or the Duke Lacrosse team. In all of these the story was presented in a “all white people (except for certain enlightened liberals) are guilty for this crime.

Of course this gets me thinking of what purpose is served by making a national story out of this case, and maybe that’s your point. I certainly don’t want to paint the entire black community as guilty because clearly they are not and we shouldn’t fall into the trap of doing what the media does.

Which leads into why I think this is important to talk about. Because it proves the media has an agenda and is willing to sell out to make their political points. No more, no less.
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Do-rags are for covering/protecting leave-in conditioner. Apparently all these rappers with shaved heads condition daily.

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