Wednesday, July 23, 2008

12-Part Levy Article Racism?

Hadn't thought of this before, but Robert Pierre did. The other day I linked to the 12-part story that the Wapo was running on the Chandra Levy story. Robert Pierre wrote an internal memo to management at the Washington Post calling it racism for devoting so much attention to one white female's murder, when hundreds of Blacks are murdered all the time and receive no attention. Of course there's a pattern to this that transcends the WAshington Post, though. The more beautiful the murdered or missing White woman, the more likely it is to get significant attention in the media.

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