The Media’s Double Standard For School Shootings

12:06 am EST September 29th, 2006 | Media | 2 Comments

What happened in Colorado was horrible, horrific, and devastating to a community. But I have to ask – why is it school shootings that are just as devastating that happen to occur in mostly black schools (and I’m not even saying urban black schools, I happen to have gone to a mostly black high school in suburban south Florida)  don’t get this sort of high level treatment from the New York Times and the cable news channels?

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2 Responses to “The Media’s Double Standard For School Shootings”

  1. Church Secretary says:
    September 29, 2006 at 6:53 am

    In the corporate media, non-white lives aren’t as valuable as white lives. If they were, then the corporate media would have a harder time helping to sell our government’s avaricious wars on brown people around the globe.

  2. Rheinhard says:
    September 29, 2006 at 9:24 am

    I’m not sure what the reason is, but I am pretty certain it’s the same one that the quarterly national missing child traqgedy story is inevitably about a blonde white girl.