(07-07-2022, 09:25 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-07-2022, 08:13 AM)mikesez Wrote: You don't think there's a market opportunity for one of the many competing media outlets to decide to adopt different narrative? Fox News spends a little time on it, but for no other purpose than to smear the other outlets for not covering it at all.
Every gun death in Chicago gets covered in the local news, FWIW.

The offshoot "conservative" media already does but their voice isn't loud enough. The same with Black on Any Other Race crime, the media suppresses those stories because the truth that the majority of violent crime in this Country is committed by one particular minority race and sex demographic is anathema to the "they're all victims of Systemic Patriarchal White Supremacist Racism" narrative and their grievance platform would be destroyed. And it's not like there's political homogenization in these media rooms, they're all Democrats spouting their ideology, an ideology was best summed up by that famous scene in the Godfather regarding the selling of narcotics. No, the Truth is subservient to the Narrative.

Voices are as loud as the number of listeners.  Listeners look for information that is presented in a way they understand, and then advertisers follow the listeners, and it's all a virtuous cycle.  If a voice exists but is "too quiet" it's because too few listeners found it credible or comprehensible.

And anyhow, the high number of violent crimes committed by black people doesn't really detract from the narrative that they are also victims of racism.  Victims often lash out.  We also know that a life of crime is more attractive to people with severe finial hardship than those who are well off, to put it mildly.  So I don't think the two narratives are conflicting at all.

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