No description of two murderers

Posted by David B on January 18, 2006, 12:03 PM | #

I agree that racial descriptions are often suppressed for PC reasons, but in this case the fact that the two suspects are black has been widely reported in prvious articles.  I guess that the author of this one just didn’t bother repeating what had already been said.

Posted by Guessedworker on January 18, 2006, 01:29 PM | #

That’s the charitable view.  Forgetfulness.  How human.

Journalists, of course, are taught to weigh all considerations.  Plainly, the one the MSM weighs most is the consequence of truth-telling.

There are several problems in telling the truth, even for supposedly Conservative-leaning media.  For example:-

There is the terrifying sense of exposure which attends breaking ranks.  No self-respecting liberal - and everyone but our kind is a liberal - likes to incur moral opprobrium.  The sense of moral worth is very, very important to liberals.  But to do it on your lonesome is incredibly unwise.  Critics are safe from opprobrium only if they come from deep within the Multicult, like Trevor Phillips.  The rest, naturally, keep mum and maintain relations with Power.

Next there is the danger of letting loose all manner of unforeseen genies.  Nobody but those despicable WN types actually wants racial disquiet down among the doubles.  MSM Man would be horrified if he somehow contributed to that blessed outcome.  He has absolutely no ideological wish to change or destabilise the present racio-political dispensation, whereby white interests and concerns are denied, suppressed or ignored and the world just gets browner.  He has noticed that Capitalism, which pays his mortgage, likes Third World labour. So he follows the proven formula.  Lie about white violence by inflating it.  Lie about black violence by omerta.  It works and he is rewarded on all sides.  Nobody ever punctures his self-esteem by reminding him that he is a liar.

Then there is the little difficulty around the office of telling the truth about blacks and violence - very impolite when there are so many black underlings on the payroll.  It’s not as if they are ever going to threaten his job, is it?

Then there is the problem of having to think out of the box.  All that lovely, warm certainty buttressed by every opinion in print gone ... all gone!  How will he know he’s ever getting anything right?  Then there is the problem of the future.  What happens if the great engine of truth-telling stalls and he’s left there shameful, naked, unemployable.  Then there is the problem ...

Posted by Voice on January 18, 2006, 01:50 PM | #

Another Gem GW!

Posted by ben tillman on January 18, 2006, 02:14 PM | #

...the fact that the two suspects are black has been widely reported in prvious articles.  I guess that the author of this one just didn’t bother repeating what had already been said.

False. 

A description is given:  “...his attackers, who were in their teens or early twenties and wearing hooded tops….”  He bothered to repeat part of what was said, including a preposterously less important detail than their race.  Hooded tops?  As if that were a permanent defining characteristic?

Posted by Phil on January 18, 2006, 02:16 PM | #

Needless to say, if the races were reversed, the racial description of the killers would be uttered before another word or a line could be used to begin the article. That is the nature of liberalism.

Posted by Matra on January 18, 2006, 02:21 PM | #

I saw this linked at Modern Tribalist - “UK Press Coverage of Racially Motivated Gang Murders - A Comparative Analysis”

Posted by Guessedworker on January 18, 2006, 08:08 PM | #

Here it is from the horse’s mouth.  Or from one Ethan Baron’s.  He is a Canadian journalist ... and not a gentile, btw.

Sadly, the media has played into the white supremacists’ hands. In general, newspapers, magazines, TV and radio broadcasters don’t mention race in connection with crime. It’s accepted practice, to avoid harming ethnic communities and fueling racism. The media has broken that rule, judging that there’s a bigger story than a series of gang shootings and stabbings - it’s a community problem, and solutions will have to come, in part, from the community. It has become accepted practice to identify a suspect by ethnic origin, when it appears the violence is gang-related.

The media spotlight has provoked some positive response from families, community leaders and government. But making available that particular information, the colour of the gunman’s skin, comes at a cost, and opens up Canada’s cherished cultural mosaic to attack.

And, Ethan, it opens up to attack all the little political animals who brought this cherished mosaic to those happy, happy Kanadians.

Posted by Andrew on January 18, 2006, 11:32 PM | #

At least they can catch them, here the cops do not want to know about it if it is a Moslem Middle Eastern type, in fact, the police will talk you out of it, because they will target you for retaliation, what a lovely law abiding country we live in, even the police tell us to piss off, just like our ethnics. But we are just racist white supremacists, Even our Premier , Polititions and the Commissioner of police tell us that, Every day.

Posted by yoy on January 20, 2006, 03:43 AM | #

The BBC still can’t bring themselves to mention the B word

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4626470.stm

Posted by Guessedworker on January 20, 2006, 06:31 PM | #

Concerning the other murder mystery of the moment, the trial of six men accused of the murder of Ann Marie Leneghan and the attempted murder of her friend, this evening’s Channel 4 News revealed that the trial judge ordered that the men’s “identities” not be made public.  That’s what it said.  Of course, their names are known.  So what can Channel 4 News have meant by “identities”?

Well, they did show a courtroom artist’s sketch which revealed the backs of the men’s heads, one a mid-brown colour the others uniformly darker.

The request for the court order surely came from the defence.  It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that they argued that widespread discussion about the men’s ethnicity will be prejudicial to their case.  In other words, this is an admission of sorts.  The public mind knows about guns and knives and the unconsidered, life-taking criminality of the Tridentine massives.

The knowledge is a genie that ten thousand court orders can’t put back in its little Marxist box.