Activism Works! The Chicago Tribune covers the Channon and Christopher murders.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 10 June 2007 14:51.

Howard Witt, a senior journalist at The Chicago Tribune, was not honest enough to break the mainstream silence when Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were murdered last January.  But he has redeemed himself today with a front page piece that lifts the lid on the murders, the liberal conspiracy of silence and the storm of internet protest that followed (and which, folks, clearly WORKED!).

The paper edition even carried the aesthetically perfect photograph of Alex Linder’s arrest at the VNN Knoxville rally.

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... whether the attack was a racial hate crime worthy of national media attention is another question, one that has now ignited a fierce dispute over the definition of hate crimes and how the mainstream media choose to cover America’s most discomfiting interracial attacks.

That’s because the murders of Christian and Newsom didn’t fit the familiar contours of a traditional Old South attack, in which whites target blacks and reporters quickly assume the motivation must have been racial.

Instead, the races were reversed: Christian and Newsom were white; the three men and one woman charged with their murders are black. And the failure of the story to gain much media attention outside of the Knoxville area has galvanized conservative commentators across the country who insist the case offers clear evidence of liberal bias in the major media.

They have launched a broad Internet campaign, waged via blogs, e-mails and YouTube videos, to counter what they regard as suppression of a story about an anti-white hate crime.

“There is a discomfort level [in the national media] with stories that have black assailants and white victims,” said Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative newspaper columnist and TV commentator who has featured the Knoxville case on her Web site. “If it doesn’t fit some sort of predetermined narrative of how we view taboo subjects like race and crime, there’s a disinclination to cover it.”

Country music star Charlie Daniels, who lives 150 miles from Knoxville, contrasted scant coverage of the Christian-Newsom murders with the national media frenzy that erupted last year when a black woman accused three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her at a party. The white players were cleared in April after the accuser proved unreliable and no evidence corroborated a crime.

“If this [Knoxville case] had been white on black crime, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their ilk would have descended on Knoxville like a swarm of angry bees,” Daniels wrote on his Web site. “I guess the lack of TV cameras discouraged them.”

Cause celebre for extremists
Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have jumped on the case as well, drawn to the state where the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865. Hate groups have organized rallies in Knoxville and set up Web sites under the victims’ names to spew racial invective.

But it’s not just conservative whites and extremists who have criticized the national silence over the Knoxville case.

“Black leaders are not eager to take this on because it’s one more thing that would cast a negative light on African-Americans,” said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an author and nationally syndicated black columnist who has written frequently about the reluctance of black leaders to denounce crimes committed by blacks against whites. “There’s already an ancient stereotype that blacks are more violent and crime-prone, anyway.”

... Authorities say the couple’s assailants, some of them ex-convicts, forced their victims to drive at gunpoint to a clapboard house in one of Knoxville’s roughest neighborhoods, where both victims were raped and then killed. Newsom’s body, shot and burned, was found dumped beside nearby railroad tracks, while Christian, who was strangled, was found bundled in plastic garbage bags inside the house.

State prosecutors have lodged murder, rape and other charges against brothers Lemaricus Davidson, 25, and Letalvis Cobbins, 24; Cobbins’ girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman, 18; and George Thomas, 24. Their trials are set for next year, and officials have not yet revealed whether they will seek the death penalty. A fifth suspect was charged in federal court as an accessory.

Yet as brutal as the crime was, Knoxville authorities have strongly denied that it was racially motivated. And they have sought to correct rumors, eagerly spread by white supremacist Web sites, that the couple had been sexually mutilated before they were killed and their bodies dismembered afterward.

“There is absolutely no proof of a hate crime,” said John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Atty. Randy Nichols. “It was a terrible crime, a horrendous crime, but race was not a motive. We know from our investigation that the people charged in this case were friends with white people, socialized with white people, dated white people. So not only is there no evidence of any racial animus, there’s evidence to the contrary.”

Newsom’s parents do not accept that logic.

“If this wasn’t a hate crime, then I don’t know how you would define a hate crime,” said Mary Newsom, Christopher’s mother. “It may have started out as a carjacking, but what it developed into was blacks hating whites. To do the things they did, they would have to hate them to do that.”

Conservatives cite examples

Official hate crime or not, to most conservative critics what the Knoxville case illustrates is the general reluctance of the mainstream media to report black-on-white crimes. As examples, many cite a 1999 incident in North Charleston, S.C., in which seven black youths attacked two white bicyclists riding through their neighborhood, leaving one permanently disabled; a 2000 mass-murder case in Wichita, Kan., in which two black brothers kidnapped and killed four white victims; and an attack last year in Long Beach, Calif., in which 11 black teenagers attacked and severely beat three young white women.

Only the Long Beach case was charged by local authorities as a hate crime, and none of the stories drew sustained national attention.

“You’ve seen a lot of people with impeccable credentials making the point that the press does play up white-on-black crime and play down black-on-white crime,” said Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor who publishes political and media commentaries on his widely read Instapundit blog. “I think it’s a fair criticism. And it just empowers the crazies when the mainstream media soft-pedals this stuff.”

In reality, statistics from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice offer a mixed picture of crime and race in America.

What the statistics say
On one hand, African-Americans bear the brunt of violent crime in the U.S.: In 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available, blacks were more than twice as likely as whites to fall victim to serious violent crime, most often at the hands of other blacks.

Blacks are also the overwhelming majority of victims of attacks recorded by the FBI as hate crimes. In 2005, blacks were the victims in 68 percent of nearly 5,000 hate-crime incidents nationwide, while whites were the victims in 20 percent of the cases. Whites accounted for60 percent of known hate-crime offenders, while blacks accounted for 20 percent.

But on the other hand, when overall cross-racial violent crimes are tabulated—including incidents not formally classified as racially motivated hate crimes—Justice Department statistics show that blacks attack whites far more often than whites attack blacks.

In 2005, there were more than 645,000 victims of cross-racial violent crimes between blacks and whites in the U.S. In 90 percent of those crimes, black offenders attacked white victims.

“In the old days,” said Hutchinson, contemplating that statistic, “when you said ‘hate crimes,’ it was automatic—whites victimizing blacks. Today you have to pause for a minute and not make automatic assumptions.”

My feeling is that Howard Witt should be praised for this, not condemned for any past shortcomings.  It’s something we want to see more of - along with the dropping of the liberal hate language of “white supremacism”, “hate groups”, etc in every reference to European-Americans who simply love their own people.  Witt’s e-mail is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you want to deliver him your encouragement.

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Posted by Scimitar on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:44 | #

By all the accounts of authorities, the couple—Newsom, 23, was a talented carpenter and former high school baseball star; Christian, 21, was a senior at the University of Tennessee—fell victim to a random carjacking Jan. 6 in the parking lot of an apartment complex where they had gone to visit friends.

How many random carjackings involve homosexual sodomy? I was also under the impression that they left the SUV behind.

And they have sought to correct rumors, eagerly spread by white supremacist Web sites, that the couple had been sexually mutilated before they were killed and their bodies dismembered afterward.

This was reported by David Lohr at the Court TV Crime Library website. A white supremacist?

But whether the attack was a racial hate crime worthy of national media attention is another question, one that has now ignited a fierce dispute over the definition of hate crimes and how the mainstream media choose to cover America’s most discomfiting interracial attacks.

This is a straw man. The issue is interracial crime, which is overwhelmingly black-on-white, not whether the Knoxville Massacre was a hate crime. Why are crimes motivated by racial hatred more worthy of coverage than other crimes? The media covers gruesome crimes that are not motivated by racial hatred all the time: the woman in Texas who drowned her children, workplace shootings, child abductions, serial killers, etc.

Country music star Charlie Daniels, who lives 150 miles from Knoxville, contrasted scant coverage of the Christian-Newsom murders with the national media frenzy that erupted last year when a black woman accused three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her at a party. The white players were cleared in April after the accuser proved unreliable and no evidence corroborated a crime.

Exactly. I was a student at Duke at the time.


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Posted by James Bowery on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:58 | #

The ultimate excuse of the mainstream media is that the reason they don’t cover black on white crime is precisely because it is so common it isn’t newsworthy.

This, of course, means that whites need a separate territory but none of these people care about that because whites are the new “niggers”.


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Posted by Al Ross on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:17 | #

The reason I believe this development to be a false dawn, at least as far as The Tribune is concerned, is because this Chicago media company, formerly a listed entity with a wide range of shareholders and no major Jewish ‘eminence grise’, has recently changed hands and is now wholly-owned by the Jewish real estate billionaire, Sam Zell.  The new proprietor hasnt yet instituted major changes and may well be rather taken aback by this article.


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Posted by Maguire on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:50 | #

“This, of course, means that whites need a separate territory”

Nothing that happened at “Knoxville” and nothing arising out of the aftermath advances this goal one millimeter.

Getting “VNNF” on the front page of the Tribune was counterproductive and is easily demonstrated.  How many hundreds of Antifas, ADL, SPLC and police agents-provocateurs descended today on VNNF to stir the pot, make the most outrageous posts and generally create more chaos?

And so what if there was one day of Tribune front page coverage, which coverage is already wrapping garbage and lining kitty boxes all over Chicago?  Rockwell routinely got on the front page in the 1960s.  Where are we forty years later?


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Posted by sambo on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:19 | #

And so what if there was one day of Tribune front page coverage, which coverage is already wrapping garbage and lining kitty boxes all over Chicago?  Rockwell routinely got on the front page in the 1960s.  Where are we forty years later?
Posted by Maguire on Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 11:50 PM | #

You’re right.  Rockwell got a lot of attention in his day, but his successes in that arena served primarily to educate the enemy media.  They learned how to manipulate whatever it is that passes for public consciousness.  They love it whenever somebody gets out there in front of their cameras, holding a crudely made sign, and subsequently gets arrested.  More fuel for their fires, not ours.


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Posted by GT on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:20 | #

He who defines, controls:

I scanned the MSM’s coverage of Knoxville II today.  An inarticulate, shirtless, heavily tattooed skinhead was interviewed and contrasted with well-spoken Africans Rueben Figeuroa and Ezra Maize of the Knox County NAACP, and two or three clean-looking white women representing the counterprotesters.  Standing beside Mr. Tattoo was another skinhead wearing a white “wife-beater” undershirt.  The bearded Pastor Ken Gregg was interviewed and his use of the alien-sounding “Yahweh” was cited in all reports.  On Stormfront prior to the rally Kelso wrote that 200 people were committed to the protest and 400 or more were expected.  According to the local news, however, only 100 showed up.  Immediately following the speeches self-appointed “commander” Hollywood Bill jumped on the VNN forum to inform everybody that Kelso is homosexual.  With practice and advice from the ADL/SPLC Knoxville officialdom and media have become more sophisticated in their treatment of the protestors.  Despite the protesters greater numbers and use of a public address system the marginalizing counter-message follows the SPLC template in all aspects and focuses upon the most dubious part of our message – that is, the sexual mutilation of Channon and Chris which can be sourced to Hal Turner and his alleged “contacts” within the KPD who are said to be “secret” members of the KKK.  The enemy media have succeeded in containing the message about Chris and Channon as well as the KPD contained the protesters on the courthouse lawn.


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Posted by Nordicelt on Sun, 31 May 2009 15:39 | #

I have a couple of “problems”, with the, above , blog,  {1} the author, states that in the past, there have been more “hate crimes”, committed, by “whites” against “blacks”, than the other way around,..I submit that it would be more accurate, to say, that more “whites” have been “charged”, with hate crimes, against “blacks”, than the other way around,..That is to say,..that it being NOT “Politically Correct”, to even admit the possibility, that any “Negro”, ever, since the dawn of time,has ever committed a hate rime,..So “many”, even “most”, hate crimes, committed by “Negros” are NEVER charged as such,..While, it it a universal, pre-supposition, that any & all white on black crime is “hate”, motivated,..{2} I am not sure how the author, justifies, calling the KKK & the Nazis, “Hate”, groups,..But then fails to identify the NAACP, & the ADL,  as such,..Let us “get real” here,..The collective, “BLACK”, race in America, today, is positvely SEETHING, with"HATE” for the collective, “White”, Race,..& the NAACP, with the help of the Zionist owned, media & the ADL., continues to keep the pot biling,..by continuing to “push”, this idea of victimhood, onto the “Black” tribes,  {3} Now, as to the KKK & the Nazis, there are those, who might say, that those groups, are just trying to give a “wake up call to “White”, America, that the White Race,. & Western Civilzation, as a whole are under attack,..by certain, very sinister, & very powerful forces,..& that, those sinister forces are just using the “Blacks”, as “shock troups,..as it were, to polute “white”, civilzation, from within,..Their ultimant aim, being to “contaminate”, what little is left, of the “White”, gene pool, on earth, with,..the genes, of the “less evolved”,  races,..So as to “facilitate”, that groups, age old, plan for world domination,..Need I say more,.?



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