Chapel Hill Shooting

[Shadow00]

I'm quite certain that its how news work.
People watching the news are generally white, usually well off and middle aged.
The news are a means of making the people more obedient to a government and to do that they simply need to:
1) use propaganda
2) make them feel threatened.
By making all the stories about Muslims attacking white folks (especially terrorism bombings are a juicy subject) they pretty much make people think they are next etc etc, thus backing up the country's current government etc.

Pretty much 9/11 US.
I mean sure, k, 9/11, horrible and all, but the fact that its still used by the news when for example war in Vietnam isn't, that means that they need people to think middle east is still a threat.
Why's that? Oil, land, name it.

Back on topic:
The media don't want you to bother with anti theist people gunning down Muslims simply cause, well,anti-theist people are the norm these days.
Its just not going to happen.

My view is, it is perfectly acceptable.
US has got freedom of speech etc as far as I recall, same with freedom of press.
Meaning they can and will say WHATEVER they want. Should they? No. Can you stop them? Nope.
If you don't like it, ignore it

[Tycoon]

Fact is, for the media to cover it and then admit it is a hate crime, it would have to admit it is part of the problem.

[TheKingsHills]

I don't think this can be completely attributed to the media being biased.
I think of it more as being that the majority of the population being biased.
The major news companies aren't there to provide news anymore. This has been established. They're there to make money, and they're not going to air something that won't get them ratings.

[Flobalob]

I don't think this can be completely attributed to the media being biased.
I think of it more as being that the majority of the population being biased.
The major news companies aren't there to provide news anymore. This has been established. They're there to make money, and they're not going to air something that won't get them ratings.

That's not entirely true. There are news channels funded by Government, which are there to provide a service, rather than to make money. They're the good ones. Like the BBC.

[Shadow00]

I don't think this can be completely attributed to the media being biased.
I think of it more as being that the majority of the population being biased.
The major news companies aren't there to provide news anymore. This has been established. They're there to make money, and they're not going to air something that won't get them ratings.

That's not entirely true. There are news channels funded by Government, which are there to provide a service, rather than to make money. They're the good ones. Like the BBC.

Right. Because a news service funded by the current government is totally not going to (in)directly back up whatever the government says or does 24/7

[Flobalob]

I don't think this can be completely attributed to the media being biased.
I think of it more as being that the majority of the population being biased.
The major news companies aren't there to provide news anymore. This has been established. They're there to make money, and they're not going to air something that won't get them ratings.

That's not entirely true. There are news channels funded by Government, which are there to provide a service, rather than to make money. They're the good ones. Like the BBC.

Right. Because a news service funded by the current government is totally not going to (in)directly back up whatever the government says or does 24/7

They really don't. They even have to report badly on themselves, e.g. during the phone hacking scandal. They literally tell the stories exactly how they are.

[Dr Frook]

the media twists everything ... this wasnt a hate crime

[Boxorino]

the media twists everything ... this wasnt a hate crime

i think it was bc of the movie american sniper and how it promoted that stereotype that all muslims are monsters and terrorists (which is not tru, it's only like that bc of a small few that get all of the attention. which is actually true about everything. if ONE person out of an entire race screws up, the whole race is blamed for it. yet white people... smh white people. i am so sorry i have this privilege and i am fully aware that i have it, but just because i know it exists doesn't make me a perfect person. it doesn't remove my privilege). pretty sure he used the parking thing as an excuse to shoot them so it wouldn't look like a hate crime.

[Shadow00]

Of course news broadcasts will even criticize themselves IF IT IS AN OBVIOUS MISSTEP.
If you've got 10 million people on social media being (beep) about some scandal then you BETTER expect it to be on the news.

I'm sorry but the media as far as I am concerned are no longer about providing an objective view of the world, just the view that the government wants to show you and in the bottom line, the view you want to see.

Because yeah you be hatin on news dissin on Muslims etc
But if it were the EXACT other way around and you were the #1 target of every crime on the news as white peeps, would you want to watch that?
Trust me the answer is probably no.
And that's the reality folks

[mmm]

It's not been officially determined that it was a hate crime, the federal investigation is still ongoing. I would initially think so, considering how the victims were shot "execution style" in the back of the head, but according to multiple people who knew the shooter, he would always get upset over the victims' parking jobs (not the manner in which they parked, but something about assigned spaces).

Either way, the media generally hops on the "hate crime" hype train before it was established what the true motive was. It's weird that they didn't cover this shooting.