Ralph Yarl shot, media all over it - Biden calls family. But white girl attacked by black mob? Hmm.

Then name ONE!

No idea what the hell you are talking about.

What about them?

 

It's almost like defunding the police and basically legalizing theft under $999 has caused crime to increase.... And while we're at it let's legalize all the control substances to see if that'll help the situation.

Things don't get that bad without retarded leadership facilitating it and if they keep voting for retards they will get more of the same results

 

Anyone find a police report?

 

this happened a few months ago to a teacher in school. Repeat: teacher, a union member, a woman, in school.

Do you think Biden invited her to the White House and gave a speech about school safety? If he did, I didn’t hear it.

 

Blacks engage in violent crime at a higher rate than whites and that of course impacts the the per capita calculations.

 

I'll give you an example of what I think is wrong.

Ferguson, Missouri several years ago.

Blacks parachuted into a housing project in the middle of a suburban black community did what people do in sweat boxes when faced with summer heat--they go out into the street. Now, when people do that, some get into trouble. The hundreds blacks in the housing project rioted over several blocks down a main street in front of the project.

The media show up, play up the conflict, and attract the usual outsiders, from Al Sharpton to street rabble. No matter how much the media played it up, the protest was confined to the same few blocks in front of the housing project. I trust you to remember the media hype, from MSM to Fox News.

A foreign news outlet, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed a black man in his front yard one block from the riot area and the guy said his problem was getting back and forth from his two jobs. The story backdrop was the neat-as-a-pin neighborhood with manicured lawns, literally a single block from the riot.

The only other reported trouble was a minor problem in St. Louis.

Media were interested in keeping people tuned in. Scare them, anger them, gin up conflict--the media would push their mamas down a flight of stairs to sell ads to people glued to their tvs. Truth be known, nothing was happening--and nothing was going to happen--because the middle-class black homeowners weren't going to riot.

Media will play up anything that keeps people tuned in. Riots in Ferguson? Sure. A new "Summer of Love" in Seattle? Then a guy is killed inside the free zone? Media love it.

What else is wrong with the media? They don't have enough money to do quality work and people tend to watch news as infotainment. Put those two things together and you have a huckster like Trump come along and provide them with free political theater. The media don't want to lose the freebies from pols, so they go along with the junk they're being fed. They'll criticize someone like Trump, but they'll continue giving him a platform.

What you see from the media is a combination of what they're fed and the infotainment they can pull together from the material they have, been provided, and they can afford to generate. They target an audience and feed them "news" to suit their taste.

The media are promoting their interest in making money. BLM provides them with marches, demonstrations, and attract lawless elements to demonstrations in big cities. They do tv interviews across the country. Lots of free video for the media. Do they criticize them for lacking discipline in their marches? No. Don't bite the hand that feeds. Trump gets a free ride from the rightwing media and an easy time of it from MSM. They could easily give more play to the women who accuse Trump of raping them. They don't. Why not? Because they don't want to get cut off.

How do I know this stuff? Because I provided media with the infotainment they wanted while at the same time remaining true to our purpose as an organization. What made it tough is we didn't give them quite what they expected--no demonstrations, no yelling, and no dishonest statements. We had to generate news that was interesting. We got coverage, so I think it's fair to say we succeeded.

The media are amoral. Profits over truth. Sometimes they'll do the right thing if it doesn't cost them too much money.

I can say more, but I'm pointing out that money and competition drive the media, not liberal or conservative ideology.

 

The "woman" factor is not relevant, because they don't believe that they even really exist apparently, but the fact that she was a union member but did not get a call is surprising!

 

Here's a more damning comparison. There is this piece of human waste, but no call from Biden to the victims: 6-year-old girl, parents shot after basketball rolls into man's North Carolina yard (nypost.com)

 

My guess--and this is based on my experience with teachers' unions is that the union wanted to play down the incident. If this is true, I don't agree.

It's not long--read it...

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/when-students-assault-teachers-effects-can-be-lasting/2018/02

If the union really believes what's in this article, why are they silent? The leadership doesn't want to be seen challenging the safety of schools. Assaulted teachers isn't part of the narrative. I don't agree with being silent in the face of this serious problem.

Joe Biden? His wife is a classroom educator, so he knows about the problem. He'd be President BooHoo for teachers if the politics worked.

 

No, it isn't surprising at all.

The student assaulted a teacher. Was the teacher a jerk picking on the kid? Probably not, but it happens. Maybe parents would get upset about school safety if the media concentrated on the incident. Maybe teachers would get upset with the union for not pressing the employer. The media have nowhere to go with the story if there isn't someone pushing it.

 

Only the rich and entitled and their police may legally carry concealed handguns in our cities.

 

And that would be standing the truth on its head.

 

Almost everyone arrested during the Ferguson riots was not only from out of town many were from out of state.

 

I can’t believe the school or the union didn’t back up the teacher, it’s insane. That randi weingarten union president shut down schools to protect teachers from a virus, it was all about her union members and not the students. She said she would care for the students when they start paying dues. She should have been thrown out after saying that.

 

Huh? Gettos offering money to Old Joe?

 

The point I made: Joe didn't do a BooHoo for the teacher worked over by a student because--and this is my guess--the teachers' union doesn't want him calling attention to violence in public schools. Bad for business. Bad for the idea poor kids, white and black, should be cut slack for violent outbursts at school because they come from often violent and otherwise deficient home environments.

The teacher is being sacrificed on the altar of ideology and political expediency.

If the violence isn't being downplayed in this instance, it certainly is overall. Hundreds of thousands of teachers are assaulted every year in schools. That should concern everyone for all sorts of reasons. Leaving aside the impact on teachers, how much violence are students experiencing from the same kids threatening teachers?

I notice the working conditions for teachers don't seem to concern you very much. You're busy instead attacking teachers based on anecdotal stories of teacher wrongdoing (teachers your elected schools boards hired). Teachers are for you a political football in your culture wars with leftwingers. Just a thought.

So, what then... we can and should cut down the violence in our schools. We owe it to the kids we send there. We owe it to ourselves.

Your kid is far more likely to end up worse for violence in schools than they are from smut being disseminated though school libraries.

 

Better off folks don't need to steal, at least not directly.

 

That was a response to some one said he'd called a lot of white folks too.

 

Looks like you're completely stuck in what might be called "victim mode" where white people feel they're being discriminated against. I tried to show how the media play stories with making money in mind, not screwing white people. Everyone, it seems, has a grievance. The system is against them because they're men, or women, or black, or white, or Latino, or Asian, or young, or old. Just about any way we can figure out, we have grievances. Teachers have grievances. Police have them.

You're just one more guy with a grievance, IMO.

 

A primo example of the media ginning up conflict to make money.

Yes, discrimination is an ugly thing...



It's still around, much of it in the form of the past impacting the future. It's harder to climb the income ladder in this country than most other rich countries.

 

Sorry I wasn't victimized by the riots in Ferguson but a hell of a lot of black small businessmen and women were. And no that didn't happen because of a bunch of rowdy neighborhood kids. It happened because a bunch of out of town and out of state actors showed up with the intent to burn **** down and hurt people. And the cops weren't allowed to do their job.

 

Food ain't what's being stolen for the most part. It's high end sneakers bling and that sort of thing. Survival items aren't being stolen which is what you'd expect if Poverty was the issue.

 

Is that why only the rich and entitled and their police may legally carry concealed handguns in our cities?

 

The truth sir is the truth you don't like it that's fine. Some of the media reported the events honestly and provided important follow up for understanding what went down. Almost all of the alphabet soup media just reported the narrative they were given and didn't even think about checking actual facts. Hell a goodly percent of the rioters weren't even black.

 

Yeah, there were some outside agitators, but there can't be that many in a few blocks. Yeah, outsiders came in and added much to the damage.

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the media, from way right to way left, covered the thing to death. They were all making a buck off people watching to see what would happen.