Knoxville, TN (TLS). The brutal murder of a Knoxville, Tennessee couple has certainly made the headlines of local newspapers and television stations, but you won't find a word of it mentioned in the national media. This is odd given the heinous nature of the crime.
Knoxville residents Christopher Newsom, 23, and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Channon Christian, a student at the University of Tennessee, were found brutally murdered in January. Both had been raped and tortured.
In fact, the details of their slaying are so gruesome that they have not been made public by police officials, but plenty of websites have provided the gory details.
Four suspects have been arrested and charged with the crimes. All four are Black. The two victims are white.
And this is the source of the controversy. Local residents and bloggers claim that had the situation been reversed, with four Caucasians raping, torturing, and murdering two young African-Americans, the details of the crime and the arrests would be all over CNN and the national media.
But so far, nary word.
Country music star Charlie Daniels claims that while the news blackout may not be racially motivated or an example of reverse racism, it most definitely is a case of 'selective journalism.'
The trial will be underway in Knoxville very soon, and prosecutors have not yet indicated if they will seek the death penalty.
Read the complete story here:
http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6534768
Showing posts with label mainstream media news blackout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mainstream media news blackout. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
News Blackout on Feinstein Scandal
Washington, DC (TLS). Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, is embroiled in a scandal of gargantuan proportions, yet you won't hear about it on network news broadcasts. It has not made headlines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Los Angeles Times.
This is due to the fact that she is in the right Party to get away with major scandal without so much as a slap on the wrist.
Suppose this had been Dennis Hastert, or Trent Lott, or even John McCain. Every major news organization would be milking this story for all its worth. Headlines would blare across the bottom of the TV screen. The NYT would place the news in bold, block letters across the front page.
But the Feinstein scandal? Nary word. Nada. Naught.
Senator Feinstein has been caught in a profiteering scheme involving her husband and the U.S. military. Feinstein and her husband, Richard C. Blum, were the direct beneficiaries of billions of dollars' worth of military construction contracts awarded to Blum's two companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
The clincher, however, is that Feinstein herself, as the Senior member of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, had personal oversight of the awarding of military construction contracts. She personally approved awarding her husband's companies with these lucrative government contracts...a clear violation of ethics at the very least, and potentially a violation of the law.
For six years Feinstein engaged in the practice of awarding these contracts to her husband's businesses, until two rather small news agencies blew the whistle on the practice, resulting in Feinstein's immediate resignation from the subcommittee.
Conflicts of interest of this nature are against the law. The question, therefore, is, will Feinstein be investigated by the Senate? Will she be resoundingly condemned by the Senate for this breach of the public trust? Will she be forced to resign?
Remember, Senator Trent Lott was forced to step down from his post as Senate Majority Leader for merely complimenting an old man (former Senator Strom Thurmond) on his 100th birthday. Many were calling for his resignation from the Senate entirely.
Lott committed no crime and there were no conflicts of interest or ethics violations.
Yet Senate Democrats wanted his head, in spite of the fact that ex-Klansman Robert 'Sheets' Byrd sits in the Senate enjoying the respect of his colleagues.
Feinstein's lapses of ethics are serious. They should have serious consequences. The question is, when will the national media begin reporting this bombshell of a story? Are they waiting for D.C. to get its statehood so that two more Democrat Senators can immediately be added to the roster, meaning that they can afford to lose one?
This case is simply one more example of the blatant and despicable hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Let the news blackout on Feinstein's corruption end NOW. The nation deserves to know the whole truth about the rank stench of corruption emanating from Democrats in Congress.
This is due to the fact that she is in the right Party to get away with major scandal without so much as a slap on the wrist.
Suppose this had been Dennis Hastert, or Trent Lott, or even John McCain. Every major news organization would be milking this story for all its worth. Headlines would blare across the bottom of the TV screen. The NYT would place the news in bold, block letters across the front page.
But the Feinstein scandal? Nary word. Nada. Naught.
Senator Feinstein has been caught in a profiteering scheme involving her husband and the U.S. military. Feinstein and her husband, Richard C. Blum, were the direct beneficiaries of billions of dollars' worth of military construction contracts awarded to Blum's two companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
The clincher, however, is that Feinstein herself, as the Senior member of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, had personal oversight of the awarding of military construction contracts. She personally approved awarding her husband's companies with these lucrative government contracts...a clear violation of ethics at the very least, and potentially a violation of the law.
For six years Feinstein engaged in the practice of awarding these contracts to her husband's businesses, until two rather small news agencies blew the whistle on the practice, resulting in Feinstein's immediate resignation from the subcommittee.
Conflicts of interest of this nature are against the law. The question, therefore, is, will Feinstein be investigated by the Senate? Will she be resoundingly condemned by the Senate for this breach of the public trust? Will she be forced to resign?
Remember, Senator Trent Lott was forced to step down from his post as Senate Majority Leader for merely complimenting an old man (former Senator Strom Thurmond) on his 100th birthday. Many were calling for his resignation from the Senate entirely.
Lott committed no crime and there were no conflicts of interest or ethics violations.
Yet Senate Democrats wanted his head, in spite of the fact that ex-Klansman Robert 'Sheets' Byrd sits in the Senate enjoying the respect of his colleagues.
Feinstein's lapses of ethics are serious. They should have serious consequences. The question is, when will the national media begin reporting this bombshell of a story? Are they waiting for D.C. to get its statehood so that two more Democrat Senators can immediately be added to the roster, meaning that they can afford to lose one?
This case is simply one more example of the blatant and despicable hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Let the news blackout on Feinstein's corruption end NOW. The nation deserves to know the whole truth about the rank stench of corruption emanating from Democrats in Congress.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Media Blackout on News of Attack by Muslim
Washington, DC (TLS). The national mainstream media is once again implicated in yet another news blackout of an attack by a Muslim, this time a cabbie in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Ibrahim Ahmed, 37, reportedly a driver for United Cab, picked up two students near the campus of Vanderbilt University. The two were visiting from Ohio.
The details of the attack are a bit fuzzy due to the news blackout, but reports indicate that an argument ensued between the Muslim cabbie and the two students regarding religion. The students paid the cab driver and walked away. But the cabbie went after them with his vehicle, running them over.
Ahmed is from the nation of Somalia.
United Cab Company, however, denies that the attacker was an employee or driver for United Cab. Apparently, Ahmed had applied for a job but was not yet approved. He began showing up for work, acting as if he were hired, and someone mistakenly gave him the keys to a cab.
The fact that the national mainstream media would deliberately fail to report this story on the heels of a terrorist attack in Salt Lake City by a Muslim is incomprehensible. This story is important if for no other reason than to point out how easy it is for a terrorist to misrepresent himself/herself as an employee of an American company and be given free access to large groups of people, including employee records, all of which could be used in committing an act of terrorism.
Yet the mainstream media apparently believes that it is largely unimportant that Americans are increasingly targeted by Muslims living in our midst who are either carrying out a carefully conceived plan or are examples of 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome.' The national media has yet to identify the perpetrator of the Trolley Mall murders in Salt Lake as Muslim. It should also be noted here that a quick scan of the major local news affiliates throughout the South ALSO indicates a news blackout of the identity and nature of the perpetrator. The local television stations merely report that an argument broke out about religion and that the cab driver is in jail...but no mention that the cab driver is Muslim or that the nature of the argument had to do with Islam.
In the Nashville case, the mere fact that the victims would disagree with the Muslim cabbie about religion apparently was enough to convince the perpetrator that the two were infidels who needed to be murdered. The American public needs to be fully informed of this ever-present danger.
Thus, the Muslim carnage continues unabated. When will America finally wake up?
The details of the attack are a bit fuzzy due to the news blackout, but reports indicate that an argument ensued between the Muslim cabbie and the two students regarding religion. The students paid the cab driver and walked away. But the cabbie went after them with his vehicle, running them over.
Ahmed is from the nation of Somalia.
United Cab Company, however, denies that the attacker was an employee or driver for United Cab. Apparently, Ahmed had applied for a job but was not yet approved. He began showing up for work, acting as if he were hired, and someone mistakenly gave him the keys to a cab.
The fact that the national mainstream media would deliberately fail to report this story on the heels of a terrorist attack in Salt Lake City by a Muslim is incomprehensible. This story is important if for no other reason than to point out how easy it is for a terrorist to misrepresent himself/herself as an employee of an American company and be given free access to large groups of people, including employee records, all of which could be used in committing an act of terrorism.
Yet the mainstream media apparently believes that it is largely unimportant that Americans are increasingly targeted by Muslims living in our midst who are either carrying out a carefully conceived plan or are examples of 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome.' The national media has yet to identify the perpetrator of the Trolley Mall murders in Salt Lake as Muslim. It should also be noted here that a quick scan of the major local news affiliates throughout the South ALSO indicates a news blackout of the identity and nature of the perpetrator. The local television stations merely report that an argument broke out about religion and that the cab driver is in jail...but no mention that the cab driver is Muslim or that the nature of the argument had to do with Islam.
In the Nashville case, the mere fact that the victims would disagree with the Muslim cabbie about religion apparently was enough to convince the perpetrator that the two were infidels who needed to be murdered. The American public needs to be fully informed of this ever-present danger.
Thus, the Muslim carnage continues unabated. When will America finally wake up?
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